Tips & Tools Weekly (Vol. 12, No. 9)
11 Mar, 2007New Quick Poll: Got CAD Training? Get the Code! March Tutorials Live Online Cadalyst Daily Update
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This Week's Software Tips Send us your tip, code or shortcut for your favorite CAD software. If we publish it, we'll send you a "Cadalyst: CAD the Way You Want It" T-shirt, and each month Cadalyst editors will randomly select one published tip and send $100 to its author. Please submit only code and other tips that are your original work, or provide the original source so we can include proper credit. By submitting code to Cadalyst, you grant Cadalyst the right to print and distribute your code in print, digitally and by other means. Cadalyst and individual authors retain all rights to the code; published code is not to be used for commercial purposes. Congratulations February Winner! From the Trenches: Creating Symbols Inspect and Chspace Inspect. This command works in some AutoCAD verticals such as Map3D, Civil 3D, Autodesk Building Systems and Architectural Desktop. Type Autosnap at the Command line and -63 at Variable, and press Enter. At the new Command line, type Inspect (or AECinspect). When you hover your mouse over an object, the program lists the object in drawings and list object from Xref drawings. Chspace. At the Command line, type Chspace, and the program moves objects from paper space to model space and vice versa. "Not only does it move the objects, but it scales them as well. It uses the scale of the viewport to calculate the correct scale," Scott says. Metric-to-Standard Workaround NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: "This tip is evergreen -- it’s been around since almost the beginning days of AutoCAD, and it's still as good as ever. Happily, AutoCAD is usefully tolerant of top-heavy fractions. This tip applies to almost any AutoCAD prompt for a scaling value, distance value, measure value, etc. Need a 52.5" door? Scale your 36" door by 525/360.a." AutoCAD Dimensioning NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: This tip is a worthy reminder of a useful AutoCAD function. Keep in mind:
Follow-Up: Layers and VISRETAIN Tip Editors and Tip Patrollers send our apologies for any confusion. Thanks, Brian, for setting us straight! Follow-Up: Paper Space Zoom Tips & Tools Weekly software tips for AutoCAD are reviewed by Cadalyst staff and the Cadalyst Tip Patrol before publication. Use tips at your own discretion, please, and watch later editions of this newsletter for updates and corrections. Many thanks to our volunteer Cadalyst Tip Patrol members: Don Boyer, Mitchell Hirschklau, R.K. McSwain, Don Reichle, Kevin Sawyer, Ivanhoe Tejeda, Billy Wooten and Ben Young. |
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Week's New CAD and Related Products Hardware: TripleHead2Go Digital Edition Hardware: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600 and NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV Hardware: ZPrinter 450 General Software: sgCore v1.8 General Software: IntelliCAD v6.3 Visualization: solidThinking v7.5 Plug-In for Maxwell Render Visualization: solidThinking v7.5 MCAD: CADfix for Efield MCAD: Sheet Metal Transitions and Cones Calculators MCAD: PC-DMIS Portable MCAD: Teamcenter Express v2.1 MCAD: ArtCAM Pro and ArtCAM JewelSmith MCAD: ANSYS Icemax v3 MCAD: D-Cubed v36 CAM: MazaCAM v4.5 -- Matrix Edition CAM: CimatronE v8 CAM: VERICUT v6.1 |
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