tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39575580011326886722011-09-22T09:22:53.970-06:00LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-22118480624005235952009-04-13T11:40:00.006-06:002009-04-13T11:56:45.952-06:00

Because there are so many people who are not our customers who have clicked on this blog, I thought it would be helpful to them if I put down the dates that all the versions of Autodesk Software would be released. This is for North America, so if you don't live there, adjust according to what you have experienced in the past.Some of these dates have already passed, so you might want to call a

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-20600782143385727442009-04-10T09:18:00.006-06:002009-04-13T10:41:28.405-06:00

Hello, folks. If you're on Subscription, here are the dates when your next Autodesk products (the ones that we sell here at Comm-Tech) will be mailed out. This applies to North America only:Autodesk 2010 Products Launching - First Customer Shipment datesAutoCAD® 2010 --March 24AutoCAD LT® --2010 March 24AutoCAD® Map 3D 2010 --March 30Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise 2010 --March 30Autodesk®

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-48385378251461911092009-04-03T09:08:00.022-06:002009-04-03T11:52:21.180-06:00

Hello again, I hope this note finds you all in a good mood. Here in Boulder it's a beautiful sunny morning, but we're supposed to get another snowstorm tonight that could continue into tomorrow. At least tomorrow there won't be as many people who have to get to work, so there won't be as many idiots - those who refuse to slow down! - sliding into the ditches. I think you'll like this little tip.

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-66844895329479295752009-03-26T12:30:00.012-06:002009-03-26T15:39:11.315-06:00

Hi all! This is a little note totally off the subject of AutoCAD - I like to talk about the weather once in a while. Especially when it's so dramatic!The weather service had been telling us a big snowstorm was coming, and this time they were exactly right.It was a beautiful day yesterday, just like spring. When the front started rolling in I took a photo of the clouds, they looked too pretty to

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-56215827853835926452009-03-24T15:59:00.050-06:002009-03-26T15:16:16.411-06:00

Yesterday I did a review of how to create Annotative Styles, in Text, Dimensions and Multileaders. It's pretty obvious that these styles are worse than useless if you don't know how to use them, so let's get right into that.You can put Annotative Dimensions, Text and Multileaders in your drawing either in Model space or Paper Space through a scaled viewport. The benefit of putting these objects

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-10876448499555776102009-03-23T09:01:00.035-06:002009-03-24T16:03:56.107-06:00

Since Annotative objects became part of AutoCAD in the 2008 version, there have been some changes, mostly simply in how it looks when you're using them. I'm going to go through the basics again of how to use annotative text, dimensions and leaders ( called Multileaders now ). In my humble opinion, this was the best thing to come out of the 2008 release. If you ever print out your project with

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-75130068405855299512009-02-27T16:53:00.037-07:002009-03-20T15:28:41.485-06:00

Recently when I right-clicked on a toolbar in the CUI, I noticed that I could create a Ribbon right there. I thought that would be a pretty cool way to customize - but there are a few pitfalls you might want to be aware of! So, to start off I created a custom Toolbar with a bunch of commands I wanted to use all together. (This is really an easy process. 1. Right-click on the Toolbars node in the

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-69242203485896942922009-01-30T14:43:00.009-07:002009-02-02T10:23:01.293-07:00

Here's a good laugh for you all, unfortunately the joke was on me, but it's still funny- at least, everyone who works here seems to think so...Any of you who try to help others with their computers will sympathize, I'm sure!My colleague Bob (not his real name!) has a class in Wyoming next week, and they rented 4 laptop computers for him to bring along. Since he's leaving Sunday night, he's

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-86231548657367149662009-01-28T10:15:00.009-07:002009-03-24T16:05:34.623-06:00

Hello, everybody, I hope you're having a better day than I am. I want to always be accurate when I'm passing along information in this blog, so it really bothers me when I tell you the wrong thing. Let me apologize first, and then tell you the correction.I'm sorryOn my December 18th entry, I stated that Home Use was only for commercial licenses. That's true, but government offices that buy

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-31304777142163215862009-01-21T09:05:00.027-07:002009-01-28T10:14:38.491-07:00

I received a question from Filipa from Portugal about what to do when the Quick Access Toolbar disappears, and I've had it happen too. In fact, I've opened AutoCAD 2009 and not had any toolbars show up! It kind of throws you off balance when that happens, but usually it's an easy thing to fix.The first thing to do is open the CUI, and the easiest way to do that is to type CUI (and then of course

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-90441921635234558882009-01-14T15:08:00.045-07:002009-03-24T16:06:20.947-06:00

I have been working on a custom class called Advanced Blocks, it'll have elements from level 2 & level 3 classes. In that class I'm going to be showing people how to add attributes to blocks, how to extract them, and how to add Dynamic functions to blocks. With this in the back of my mind, I was looking through my archives and I realized that I haven't written about Dynamic Blocks yet.So let me

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-55545161616651783012008-12-24T10:15:00.017-07:002008-12-24T12:05:31.625-07:00

Hi folks, today's a half-day at the office here, with not much going on - lots of people on vacation this week! I was just in the mood to write a little note to all of you. I meant to include this quick tip about an option in the Rotation command when I wrote about offset, but that subject just got too long. This Rotation tip is one of those things that works pretty slick. Slick as a country road

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-76125624935877249202008-12-22T14:59:00.017-07:002008-12-22T17:05:33.748-07:00

Hi all! Great weather we're still having, eh? Especially all of you poor folks back east!I wanted to add a couple tiny tips about text, one new for 2009, the other is old but you may not know about it.In this picture I have an Mtext object, I just made it on Friday when I was showing someone how fields work. There is some text I typed and a Date field, formatted so that every time I saved the

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-62746607196520617122008-12-18T15:09:00.022-07:002009-01-28T10:02:46.923-07:00

Have you ever had a deadline that meant you had to stay at the office until the project was finished, no matter how late it got? I know it can be exciting in a scary-movie kind of way to be alone in an office building late at night, long after even the cleaning crews have gone home...or not! Honestly, I'd rather be home at night. Even if I have work to finish I like it better if, once the job is

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-75953292563725875942008-12-15T14:36:00.046-07:002009-01-28T10:11:25.001-07:00

I'm in the deep freeze today, like a lot of you all over the United States - did the weather ever change! In my town in Colorado it got up to 55 degrees F last week, it was such an unexpected gift...Then the big snow on Saturday, and now this morning it was -14! The drive in to work today was slow and painful, with the roads covered in snow that had been packed down and then frozen solid. However

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-49324453939641286492008-11-21T09:52:00.024-07:002008-12-30T11:34:10.708-07:00

How Autodesk Subscription Gold Support Can Save Your DayYesterday I wrote extensively about the benefits of getting your Autodesk software on subscription, except I left out one important benefit. I had a good reason, so bear with me.The benefit I left out was that with subscription you can log your own support requests with Autodesk. One of their techs will research your problem and email you.

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-6914728755547687982008-11-20T14:15:00.023-07:002009-03-24T16:06:55.445-06:00

Many of you get your AutoCAD software through subscription, which means that you basically buy it for the full price the first time, and then every year you pay a much lower fee to get the next new version automatically sent to you. Even if you weren't in the habit of buying every new release, this is still a good bargain. But did you know how many other things you are entitled to by being on

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-40864583416579230082008-10-22T14:56:00.033-06:002008-10-23T11:19:44.629-06:00

It's 3 in the afternoon and I just made a fresh pot of coffee, so I'm wide-awake and ready to roll through the rest of the day. This blog entry, like so many, comes from a problem one of our clients was having. Being the kind-hearted person that I am, I thought I'd be helpful to some unknown CAD operator out there and keep them from tearing their hair out in frustration. So here's my little tip

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-29965256067819221092008-10-01T16:22:00.028-06:002008-10-23T11:12:50.959-06:00

Hello, this is part 2 of the RegApp Cleanup Utility.I'm sure there must be at least one person who went to the link and downloaded the exe file, and now would like a little more help with this.If you've never done this before, you might double click on the exe file and then wonder why nothing happens. So, here's what you have to do:Once you download and run the .exe file (the one I sent you a

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-36054368960867736582008-09-29T11:17:00.011-06:002008-09-29T15:14:03.801-06:00

Hi again,Have you ever gotten drawings from another company and they were enormous files for no discernible reason? Last week we had a client who was having strange problems with a whole lot of drawings. I enlisted the help of our Civil 3D instructor, Ken Martinez, and he showed me the difference between the typing in "purge" or "-purge" at the command line, as the only way to get rid of RegApps.

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-69028299698525970462008-09-26T09:05:00.033-06:002008-09-26T16:35:49.213-06:00

When I opened up my AutoCAD this morning, I had a little message pop up telling me that I had update information. I was pretty surprised, it seems like I just updated my software! But when I clicked on it, there it was, Update #2. I guess you could call these the Updates formerly known as Service Packs.If you do not see a pop-up, the picture on the right shows you how to get new updates.Here is

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-2489321657460212682008-09-16T13:46:00.028-06:002008-09-17T13:06:51.275-06:00

Have you ever felt like you were lost in space?Autodesk really came up with a winner when they decided to add the View Cube in AutoCAD 2009! Any of you who've ever worked in three dimensional drawings know just what I mean. You're drawing and moving around and somehow you think you're looking from the top when actually you're underneath your drawing! (This has the potential to mess things up in

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-29484522917551010442008-08-18T15:26:00.020-06:002008-08-19T10:49:28.757-06:00

Hello everyone, how's the weather in your area? In Colorado we've had a lot of really hot weather for the past few weeks, in the high 90's every day (like 35-37 C) but this past Saturday it rained. Saying "it rained" really doesn't give you a picture of it, it RAINED, it just poured - buckets of rain! It's been so dry here, we did badly need the rain - but why did the only day of rain have to be

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-87549888884527545582008-07-30T14:22:00.013-06:002008-07-30T15:15:10.326-06:00

Our salespeople often get calls from our customers when they have software authorization problems. I'm writing today to address one thing that comes up all the time.If your Autodesk product won't authorize automatically over the internet, on the form you fill out to authorize via email they'll ask you to fill in your computer's server name and MAC address. Many customers call us wanting help to

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-59254939338230250262008-07-24T09:46:00.009-06:002008-07-24T11:07:00.843-06:00

Today when I opened my AutoCAD 2009, I received a notice to install an Update, which I thought was curious. I clicked on the link, and read through the Instructions for Updating my Product. At the bottom there was a link that said 'Read Me'. I clicked on it, because I was wondering what exactly an 'update' was. After telling me who should install this update, it had a listing for "Primary Issues

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-85277612282775945062008-07-17T10:29:00.026-06:002008-07-30T12:31:45.551-06:00

Our neighbors have this little black dog named Sassy, she's some sort of a Labrador Retriever mix, and she takes her responsibilities very seriously! She works really hard to be a good watchdog, barking continually at anyone who rides a bike or jogs down the road. Sassy wants to be so helpful, she's always at our door, ready to greet us. If there's a raccoon or coyote in the area, she will bark

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-18322008207742410622008-07-03T13:45:00.004-06:002008-07-03T14:01:17.098-06:00

This has been passed around since 1995, but I only got it a week ago. It made me laugh, and since today is a slow last-day-before-a-long-weekend, it seems like a good time to pass it along.What if Dr. Seuss did Technical Writing?By Gene Ziegler 1995.Here's an easy game to play.Here's an easy thing to say:If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,And the bus is interrupted as a very last

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-16064389459602977312008-06-20T15:17:00.019-06:002008-06-23T15:49:23.425-06:00

Hello fellow CAD users!I have a few minutes free on this Friday afternoon, so I thought I'd take the time to talk to you all. I want to tell you about a couple cool new things that the Layers Property Manager does in AutoCAD 2009. In my last post, I mentioned that the Layers Property Manager now will behave just like the other palettes, once you turn it on you can dock it on the side, or anchor

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-87313419686002311492008-06-19T14:20:00.019-06:002008-06-19T16:48:14.376-06:00

Today is the first post I'm writing about the new features of AutoCAD 2009, but it certainly won't be the last! I've been so busy with training and other things, I keep getting sidetracked from preparing a blog entry. SO my goal is to make them shorter and more frequent... but I think I've said that before. Sorry folks!First of all, when you open AutoCAD 2009, you know immediately that things

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-45380853817057944692008-05-22T09:24:00.006-06:002008-05-22T11:01:37.305-06:00

Customers with Subscription! Have you been utilizing your Autodesk Online Tech Support Service? If not here’s how!Ask the Contract Manager in your firm to add your name to users that may post online questions.If your Contract Manager (the one who gets the Autodesk products) has not set up the Subscription service yet, in North America they should call Autodesk customer service at 800-538-6401 and

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-64416165314963274272008-05-12T10:30:00.022-06:002008-05-13T10:41:45.791-06:00

Hello everyone,I sincerely hope you're all having a good day. If you found this blog entry by a search for the error message above, your day might be on its way to improving...We had a customer who was having terrible problems with his 2008 AutoCAD software, Civil 3D. He kept getting this fatal error: FATAL ERROR: Unhandled e0434f4dh Exception at 7c812a5bhWhen we talked to Autodesk, we found out

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-10986160501499458372008-04-21T09:41:00.036-06:002008-04-21T17:56:53.718-06:00

I spent last week with more than 900 AutoCAD geeks in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. We were all there for the Americas Tech Camp 2008 to learn about the new 2009 Autodesk products and to improve our presentation skills. I truly had an enjoyable time!First of all, I'm not at the level of society that frequently stays at Hilton Hotels, I live more on a Hotel 6 budget - so my room was

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-50295227554817454952008-04-04T11:58:00.003-06:002008-04-04T12:15:47.410-06:00

Hi everyone!I've been playing with the new AutoCAD 2009, and I have to admit I really like the new user interface. I'll be doing some posts on all the new features, eventually. I know that all the people who are on Subscription have already received their software in the mail. I thought it might be a good idea to put a few facts out there - just a couple questions I've already heard.First of all,

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-6535164010321532032008-03-17T11:25:00.026-06:002008-04-08T21:34:18.712-06:00

Just like in many other places, when Spring is heading to Colorado it often takes two steps forward and one step back. Yesterday was one of those steps back; sloppy, snowy, cold and beautiful. You can see the view out my window had a definite hint of winter to it. Today the wind is still blowing but the sun is out. A really nice day unless you're standing outside waiting for a bus.But I digress

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-23505688308136901622008-03-11T13:58:00.006-06:002009-03-24T16:27:13.770-06:00

Hi all! I'm working on the next installment about Tables, but they're giving me some headaches and I need a break. Which brings me to my subject today; this quote I heard long ago but couldn't remember when I wanted to say it. Thanks to Google's Quote of the Day, I got it! I thought any of you who work on computers would appreciate this as much as I do:If the automobile had followed the same

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-60424749418399331762008-02-28T15:07:00.036-07:002008-02-29T09:43:45.566-07:00

Hi EverybodyI promised more info on Tables, and here it is! I bet you're falling off your chair in amazement that I am posting again so soon. Well, I've been meaning to write in this blog more often, but it's more like a New Years Resolution than a promise. So I'm working on it.Today I'm going to show you how to create a table by extracting data from your drawing. I've inserted some blocks with

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-22567419594041381042008-02-19T11:49:00.025-07:002008-02-21T10:03:07.285-07:00

I used to spend a lot of time creating symbols schedules, light fixture schedules, equipment schedules - anything they could think of that needed to be put in neat rows and columns. Invariably after I was finished and it looked just right, (those of you who did this know it could really be a lot of fiddly picky work!), something would either get eliminated or added, and inevitably that Thing

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-38584730337097008972008-01-22T14:58:00.000-07:002008-01-23T10:56:31.680-07:00

Hi again from Boulder! It's been so cold lately, it's hard to remember how sweltering it was last summer. The wind is really blasting down from the mountains. I read somewhere about a 'lazy wind', and that what's blowing here today. They called it a lazy wind because it's too lazy to go around you so it goes right through you.In our training center here, I meet a lot of brand-new AutoCAD Users.

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-18945508060317194842007-10-25T09:58:00.002-06:002009-03-24T16:24:42.077-06:00

Hello everyone, this short note was inspired by my annoyance at drilling through my computer's files looking for just that one folder.As you know, AutoCAD for some time has put their template and other files in a deep dark convoluted path of file folders. They had to do this, I've been told, for AutoCAD to play well with Windows. For those of you who don't have an IT or CAD Manager rearranging

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-10936792852975628222007-10-17T16:55:00.000-06:002007-10-23T09:17:48.972-06:00

Hi everyone! Yes, I got my hair cut, this is the picture of it that I hate the least- I inserted it here only in case I meet anyone who reads this. Love the haircut, hate photos. But doesn't everybody hate pictures of themselves?While demonstrating for a client the differences between AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, I came across one that has nothing to do with 3D. Changing blocks is something everyone

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-78335084131060334492007-09-18T13:09:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:59:30.508-06:00

Hi everyone! I'm departing from my normal subjects to show you a little of the project the owners of our company have been working on all summer. As any of you who've come to Comm-Tech for training know, for about two years now our main office has been in Frederick, Colorado. It's a nice town, but everything was at least 5 miles away. It took a long time to go out to lunch, and if you wanted to

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-51887569939793067982007-09-17T14:33:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:52:28.408-06:00

We are completely moved into our newly remodeled office building. (I'm posting a bunch of pictures in my next blog.) After so much chaos and disruption I am very happy to get back to a normal work day! If you click on the link you can see our new digs. I now have a window looking out over trees and things! Who wouldn't love that?Today I'm going to show you a couple new features that have been

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-57052575674331059302007-08-22T15:04:00.001-06:002007-09-24T12:53:33.947-06:00

Hi again! This time let's look at how to customize the Dashboard.I know it's hard to change the way you've always accessed your commands, so I thought perhaps if you knew you could customize the Dashboard to look the way you want it, you all might just give it a try.First of all, so we're all on the same page - the Dashboard was there in AutoCAD 2007, but only in the 3D Workspace.Now in 2008

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-5663000954116061422007-08-21T21:53:00.000-06:002007-08-21T22:09:55.541-06:00

So this last week, I went to a customers site to install Vault on their server for them. No problem, I've done this a lot of times. I get to their office and I notice their server is running Windows Server 2003 x64. Uh oh. 64 bit software. I haven't dealt with it yet and I know Civil 3D doesn't run on it. So, off to the Autodesk website to make sure it's supported http://usa.autodesk.com/

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-45574741648720136252007-08-01T13:09:00.000-06:002007-08-05T20:45:44.524-06:00

For those of you that don't live and breath Civil 3D like I do, you may not be aware that there an now service packs available for both Civil 3D 2008 and Land Desktop 2008. Ok, big deal. So why Blog about them? Well, you have to make sure you get the right one or it won't work for you. Remember, there are two different versions of LDT 2008.First, the easy stuff. The Civil 3D service pack can be

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-37038770969920249312007-07-17T13:37:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:47:59.947-06:00

Hello and welcome to the CAD Cafe. Unless you live high up in the mountains or right next to the sea, it's HOT where you are! So get yourself an iced drink - if your IT guy lets you have liquids near the computer - relax and try something new from AutoCAD 2008.Today we're going to make a custom Multileader.In case you aren't familiar with that phrase, let me explain. It's simply an arrow

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-21092548723926096342007-07-16T09:36:00.001-06:002007-07-23T14:53:17.900-06:00

So, you have a feature line that you would like to label and you want to see the elevations of the verticies. Well, I've got good news for you. You can create a general line label style that can do that.First thing you'll need to do is create a label style. The general line label styles are found on the Settings tab of your workspace -> General -> Label Styles -> Line. Right click on Line and

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-37052263938810716212007-07-10T11:46:00.000-06:002007-07-10T12:24:22.876-06:00

I've noticed a disturbing trend in the classes I've been teaching recently. Apparently, not many engineers out there are using the Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD. In my humble opinion, this is by far the best thing that came out of AutoCAD 2005. If you look through the help file, you may find yourself thinking, "Yeah, so it can help me open, plot, and create sheets. Big deal!" These things are

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-4270287165934366262007-07-02T15:57:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:49:52.389-06:00

I received a question about what happens to these annotative objects when you have to send your drawing to someone with an older version of AutoCAD. A really good question, and one I'd want to know the answer to before I started making all new styles of text and dimensions. Happily, the answer is short and easy. Here is the example drawing I'll be using. I made some text and dimensions that only

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-17518401537963218922007-06-25T13:53:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:56:05.954-06:00

We're back from our 2008 Roadshow, demonstrating the new features of AutoCAD 2008 in Denver, Frederick, Cheyenne, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. It went very well, thanks to all of you who attended. In the fall we're traveling to the western slope to demonstrate out there.I promised to talk a little bit more about Annotative Objects, so here we go.....This time let's look at some of the pitfalls

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-23145468533133018752007-06-18T10:10:00.000-06:002007-06-18T10:22:21.194-06:00

Often times, system administrators do not want to store the vault data on the root drive of their server. Sometimes, the drive just isn't big enough or some other reason. Setting the storage location for the file store and database of a vault can be changed to any location on the network.To change this location for an existing vault, ADMS Console 2008 and log in as an administrator. Right

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-20417082428723139392007-06-06T12:20:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:51:40.456-06:00

Annotative Dimensioning works pretty much the same as Annotative Text, but while playing with it I've noticed a few things that can be a little confusing.( a little confusing?)So hopefully after reading this, some of the fog will clear away, and this new feature will make your life as much easier as you were anticipating. No more extra layers for every viewport scale!! No more worries about

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-92148950056590579752007-05-25T11:35:00.000-06:002007-09-24T12:57:41.607-06:00

If you've ever wished you didn't have to create different layers and dimension styles for every different scale of viewport you use, with the new Annotative Feature in AutoCAD 2008, your wish has been granted.The first step to using this feature is to create an annotative text style. This is as easy as checking the correct box, and typing in the text size you want your text to be in Paperspace -

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-67019198973571756952007-05-09T15:00:00.000-06:002007-05-09T16:17:33.790-06:00

Here's a question for you, do you use the "View/Edit Corridor Section" command? Well, if you don't, you should. It's a great way to see what's going on at each section of your corridor and gives you the ability to edit each individual section. If you do use it, you may have noticed one of it's limitations. It will only display information for you to the limits of the corridor. For example, you

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-5322734988849675262007-05-08T09:18:00.001-06:002008-10-22T16:39:33.759-06:00

Here's the situation you may find yourself in. You have an alignment that runs from one road to another. You want to display the alignment from the center line of the first road to the centerline of the second road but, you want to show the profile from the Right-of-Way to Right-of-Way. How do I get a piece of the alignment to not show. I know what you are thinking, "Wipeouts!" Wipouts are good

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-63325049801422207732007-05-05T19:24:00.000-06:002007-05-08T11:02:06.281-06:00

So, you say your an avid Map 3D user and you've been forced to switch to Civil 3D. You've been told that Civil 3D is built on top of Map and that ALL the functionality of Map is in Civil 3D."Yeah right!", you say. "If Civil 3D has all the functionality of Map, where's my status bar?"Well, have I got good news for you. You can now enable your status bar in Civil 3D. However, I also have some bad

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-31829494172828110702007-04-30T14:31:00.000-06:002007-05-08T11:02:22.312-06:00

Ok, so I had a customer call me up today and ask me if Civil 3D could quickly create a solid from a surface. Apparently, they create physical models of the surface for use in their wind tunnel (how cool is that?) and the equipment that creats the models has to use a solid.Sounds like a good challenge to me. So, looking around, there seem to be several ways to do this but all of them are very

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-39639592039680366182007-04-30T14:24:00.000-06:002007-05-08T11:02:39.816-06:00

So, you say you've received your disks for Civil 3D 2008. Now when you created your deployment, did you notice that you could wash your car, paint your house, and get a four year degree in the time it took to create it? Well, there seems to be a problem with the deployment for the Civil suite of products (Civil 3D, Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion, and Land Desktop) for 2008. When you create the

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-20405121581788033602007-04-01T17:15:00.000-06:002007-04-01T17:43:40.326-06:00

Allright, so we all know corridors are great for modeling roadways, but what if you have to narrow your lanes? If we simply target our pavement to an alignment, the rest of the subassemblies are parrallel with the original corridor section. In many cases, we don't want that, we want the rest of the subassembly to be perpendicular to our target alignment. Well, that's where Offset Assemblies come

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-16710512119506680132007-02-22T12:29:00.001-07:002008-02-26T16:11:59.264-07:00

Hello and welcome to the new CommTech Cad Cafe! Since you've already met Brian, allow me to introduce myself. My name is LuAnn, and I have been working with AutoCAD since release 10, and giving instruction in it for 6 years. I'll be posting tips and instructions for all of you who use regular vanilla AutoCAD. Most of us only use the commands and tools we already know, hopefully I can show you

LuAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504386691340037718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957558001132688672.post-23270777002744829832007-02-21T16:33:00.000-07:002007-02-23T11:28:31.182-07:00

Welcome to the first installment of the Civil 3D CAD Café. The first thing I would like to do is to introduce myself. My name is Brian Hailey. I graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. I’ve worked as a civil engineer for the past eight years on a variety of different projects. And, just in case you thought I might actually have a life, I am also

Brian Haileynoreply@blogger.com0