Bill Fane

Bill Fane is a Cadalyst contributing editor, a registered professional engineer, and a retired instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, where he taught mechanical design courses in AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Inventor, SolidWorks, manufacturing processes, and design procedures. A self-admitted recovering doorknob designer, he has written more than 200 "Learning Curve" AutoCAD tutorials for Cadalyst magazine since 1986 and claims to be a close personal friend of Captain LearnCurve. If you have questions about commands, send him an e-mail him at bill(dot)fane(at)cadalyst(dot)com.

	Article The Last AutoCAD Command 9 Jan, 2016 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve: On the occasion of his final column, Bill Fane reminisces about the first.
	Article New Tricks for an Old DOS 30 Sep, 2015 By: Bill Fane Sometimes, an old-fashioned disk operating system (DOS) command prompt can perform better than Windows. In fact, as you’ll see if you read on, there are things that can be done using the DOS prompt (also known as the system command prompt) that Windows can’t do at all.
	Article Still Looking at 3D in AutoCAD 27 May, 2015 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve tutorial: Use the ViewProj and ViewSection commands to create 2D views of your models.
	Article Yet Another Way to Go from 3D to 2D in AutoCAD 21 Jan, 2015 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve tutorial: To create 2D views from 3D models quickly, try the ViewBase family of commands.
	Article Siemens PLM Connection 2013 12 Jun, 2013 By: Bill Fane The annual user conference previews NX 9, reviews the Curiosity rover project, and promotes product lifecycle management.
	Article Seek and Ye Shall Find: Quickly Locate AutoCAD Files That Contain Specific Entities 24 Oct, 2012 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve AutoCAD tutorial: Automatically search through drawings to find those that contain a particular type of entity, or even entities with specific characteristics.
	Article Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 11 Jul, 2012 By: Bill Fane First Look Review: 3D modeling software aligns more closely with AutoCAD, offers an enhanced user interface, and now comes with cloud-based services.
	Article Siemens PLM Announces Solid Edge ST5 11 Jun, 2012 By: Bill Fane Coming in July, the latest version of hybrid history-based/history-free modeler updates 3D assembly and part design features as well as 2D drafting.
	Article AutoCAD 2013 26 Mar, 2012 By: Bill Fane Cadalyst Labs Review: Autodesk’s flagship product offers new cloud-based features to enhance file storage and collaboration, new 3D-to-2D functions, plus myriad small but very useful tools to make your everyday work easier.
	Article Taking Another Look at 3D 21 Mar, 2012 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve AutoCAD tutorial: FlatShot isn't the only way to generate 2D views from 3D models — try the Solid View, Solid Draw, and Solid Profile commands as well.