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Posted on June 15, at AM in Announcements, AutoCAD, AutoCAD , Autodesk, Helpful Resources, Tips–n-Tricks, White Papers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, June 11,

How to Save an R14 DWG from AutoCAD and Products

Since AutoCAD the AutoCAD R14 DWG has not been a built in option. You can still convert your drawings to the R14 format for free.

Can only be used with AutoCAD based products, AutoCAD based products, AutoCAD LT , or AutoCAD LT

Converter converts any AutoCAD® drawing file to AutoCAD® Release 14, AutoCAD® , AutoCAD® i, AutoCAD® , AutoCAD® , and AutoCAD® file formats. Batch Drawing Converter allows conversion of pen widths to lineweights and the addition of page setups.

Supported Products
AutoCAD® and later
AutoCAD LT® and later
Autodesk Map™ and later
Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® and later
Autodesk® Architectural Desktop and later
AutoCAD® Mechanical and later
Autodesk® Building Systems later
Autodesk® Land Desktop later

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Wednesday, June 09,

The New AutoCAD & LT Bible Coming in July from Ellen Finkelstein

AutoCAD  and AutoCAD LT  Bible
Ellen Finkelstein
ISBN:

What can I say about Ellen. She has been a great person the years that I have known her and she takes a real nice approach to teaching a product and features in her books and her website manicapital.com Ellen also started the tradition of people sending me cookies and others have followed such as Darren Young who sent me about 40 pounds of cookies.

Wiley::AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Bible

Now revised and updated for the latest program versions, this bestseller is a comprehensive reference and tutorial for architects, engineers, drafters, and others using the leading computer-assisted design software, AutoCAD, or its "lite" version, AutoCAD LT

Best Practices Series - Part 1
Sheet Set Manager:
Organize Your Drawings
Dieter Schlaepfer, Autodesk, Inc.

You may have heard that the new Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD® software can manage, publish, and transmit an entire group of project files. But did you know that you can use the Sheet Set Manager simply to organize and access your existing drawings much more effectively?

There is almost no effort required, and you do not have to change the way you work!

Best Practices Series Part 2
Sheet Set Manager:
Create a List of Sheets Instantly
Heidi Hewett, Autodesk, Inc.

Most sets of drawings include a cover sheet or title sheet that has a list of all the sheets in the set. This list enables people to find design data throughout the set of drawings, so it must always be accurate. As you add, remove, or reorganize sheets, you continually modify the list of sheets to ensure that it is up to date.

In AutoCAD® , you can easily create a sheet list table with data that is extracted directly from the Sheet Set Manager. If you make changes to the sheet set, you can instantly update the sheet list table to reflect the changes.

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Thursday, May 13,

Registration and Activation (Authorization) Codes: How does it work for Subscription?

All products on subscription are pre-registered to the Contract Manager named at the time the Subscription order is processed. When installing your product you will be required to obtain an activation code. When requesting an activation code for product installations and reinstallations, please be sure to have your Serial/Group ID number available (found on your product package).

Group—A subscription contract may contain one or more groups. A company may choose to have several groups. Groups can be used to organize a subscription contract in different ways—for example, by product, office location, or department. Groups may also be organized by deployment—one group with stand-alone versions of a product and another group with a network version. (It is not possible to combine stand-alone and network versions in the same group). Each group is assigned a Software Coordinator. All products within a group share the same serial, or Group ID, number.

Group ID Number— A group ID is the unique numerical identifier that is part of the overall group name. It is derived from the serial number used to validate the first subscription put into the group. Each product added to that group subsequently assumes the group number when upgrades are shipped.

Note: The contract number for the company is derived from the first group put on the contract.
A group name can be any 20 alphanumeric characters, designated by the Contract Manager, to provide a unique label for a group.
Example:
Group ID: San Rafael
The Group ID should be used when requesting an activation code for any products shipped under subscription. The Group ID is referenced on the product package as Serial/Group ID.

IMPORTANT: Autodesk software may be installed as a network, stand-alone, or multiseat stand-alone deployment. There are some variations to the process that depend on the type of installation you have:

For more information on subscritipon, please go to manicapital.com

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Monday, May 10,

Quick Article on Design Document Communication with DWF

I just wanted to write a short article on using DWF and a workflow with markup. The DWF format is very small compared to PDF and other formats for transmitting to others. You can also use the free Autodesk DWF Writer 2 to publish from other applications such as Bentley MicroStation, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel or most any other application that can use a Windows System printer driver. You can publish in one click the entire Sheet Set in AutoCAD to DWF or a plotter. You can view DWF using the free Autodesk DWF Viewer or the $99 Autodesk DWF Composer as I show in this tutorial. The DWF is a open format and anyone can use the available DWF 6 Toolkit to write or view them.

In AutoCAD you can use the Sheet Set Manager to publish your entire Sheet Set in one click to a multi-sheet DWF.

You can use the free Autodesk DWF Writer 2 to publish a drawing sheet from Bentley MicroStation just as I did in the above image.

I simply dragged and dropped the DWF produced from the free Autodesk DWF Writer 2 into my multi-sheet DWF. I was also able to mark up (redline) the DWF in Autodesk DWF Composer which is only $99 or $49 to upgrade from the Volo View 2. You could also just view the resulting DWF files with the free Autodesk DWF Viewer but this does not have measure, mark-up and DWG viewing like Autodesk DWF Composer.

In this image you can see I can even mark-up the Bentley MicroStation produced DWF and even snap to the geometry for measurements or comments in the Autodesk DWF Composer.

Here you can see my mark up comments in a sheet in the multi-sheet DWF file on the sheet created from Bentley MicroStation. I can even indicate the markup status.

You can see the mark-up on an AutoCAD sheet in the DWF I can call out the question for another person. I can change the mark-up with snaps. After I make the mark up I can then send it back to the person with AutoCAD who created or who has the Sheet Set in AutoCAD .

Using the Markup Set Manager in AutoCAD , I can import the mark up and automatically navigate in the sheet set to the areas with the mark-up. I can also indicate the comments have been resolved and republish with the revisions.

I can even use the free Autodesk DWF Writer to publish Microsoft Word or Excel files to supplement the sheets or as a reference. I can even drag and drop raster images into the DWF such as a rendering or site photo. Best thing is that the documents when in the DWF format are not as easy to copy the data out to another document like a PDF and many do not want reviewers to get the data out. I can even have the reviewers indicate their mark-ups on the other documents in the DWF such as marking up the spreadsheet or the Bentley MicroStation sheet with my comment for the MicroStation user to “buy AutoCAD " ;-) .

Helpful Links Relevant to this Tutorial
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Cheers,
-Shaan

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Saturday, May 08,

AutoCAD Express Tools Tutorial from manicapital.com

Some AutoCAD Express Tools are covered in Michael's online article:

You really should consider subscribing to his newsletter ‘The AutoCAD Toolbelt’.

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Friday, May 07,

Edge Panning with AutoCAD

We added a little known feature in AutoCAD which is also in AutoCAD I figured I would explain this after reading a post in a newsgroup with a customer trying to figure out this discovery. You must have AutoCAD or higher installed and on Microsoft Windows /XP. Edge panning is when you are panning the display by mouse in the AutoCAD window, and then you reach the edge of the maximized AutoCAD window and the display pans while you continue to move the mouse towards the edge. Pretty cool, give it a try. It comes in pretty handy when in large drawings as you do not have to reposition your mouse to be able to pan more of the drawing.

Click on the GIF image to see a larger Animated GIF of the difference from AutoCAD without Edge Panning and AutoCAD with Edge Panning.

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Wednesday, May 05,

DWF Precision Follow Up

This is a follow up to the DWF Precision article by Brian Mathews of the DWF Team Link to Article

By default, DWFs are plotted from AutoCAD at DPI—but this is far below the limit for DWF (up to 60 million DPI!). In fact, as Brian’s article points out, with the resolution that DWF supports, “DWF can measure the continental USA with a precision of +/- millimeters when using the maximum DPI and paper size settings.”

To change the resolution (DPI) at which DWFs are published in AutoCAD based products:

1. Select the “DWF 6 ePlot” driver in the AutoCAD Plot dialog
   
2. Select Properties
   

   
   

3. Select the Custom Properties icon (in the Device and Document Settings tab)
   
4. Select the Custom Properties button
   

   
   

5. Change the vector resolution—e.g., to or DPI

   

   
   

6. Select OK
   
7. Select OK
   
8. Optionally save the changes to a different pc3 configuration file—e.g. with a dpi suffix
   
9. Select an output filename
   
10. Select OK to plot to DWF
    

You could also just select ‘Custom’ in the dropdown list to set the resolution higher than DPI

For comparison I plotted a DWF and a PDF both at DPI:
DWF File Size on disk = MB
PDF File Size on Disk = MB

After opening the DWF in DWF Composer ($99) and taking a measurement with snaps and grabbing the geometry, I can see the section of interest is reported as ' ". Of course I could also just view the DWF in the free viewer. With DWF Composer I get redline markup, measurements, snaps, round trip the markup back to AutoCAD based products, and also a DWG viewer.

Checking the same section of interest in Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 (~$), I had no real intuitive snaps and the distance was ". I guess this is a miniature city ;-). "PDF: the right choice for itsy-bitsy cities and large hard drives".

With a higher DWF DPI setting, the advantages in terms of precision in the DWF files should become very clear when comparing DWF vs. PDF.

While DPI is sufficient for most needs, those using maps and GIS may need a higher DPI. AutoCAD allows for a Custom setting increasiong the DPI up to 60 million DPI.

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Tuesday, May 04,

AUGI Customization Corner - May

Autodesk User Group International has posted a nice article of tips on AutoCAD Switches written by and AutoCAD Guru and also one of the most experienced and feedback providing AutoCAD customers Lee Ambrosius.

Lee also has a blog for many great tips on AutoCAD titled "Beyond the UI".
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"Last month, I finished the second installment of using and creating scripts for use with AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. Here, I’ll turn the attention from customizing inside of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT to the desktop shortcut. There are many options to get AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT start up. You have seen one of these options or switches in the previous articles about scripts. That switch was the /b switch, which allowed for the loading of a script when the desktop shortcut was used. This article investigates the many other switches available to you." Read More

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Great User Group Meeting

It was nice meeting the 38+ people in attendance last night at the San Francisco AutoCAD Users Group to see the presentation of AutoCAD by Shawn Gilmour of Autodesk. Congratulations to the winners of the drawings for the AutoCAD and the books. I have placed a few photos from the meeting in my daily grind photoblog.

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Friday, April 30,

White Paper: Best Practices for AutoCAD Migration

I have posted here the white paper "Best Practices for AutoCAD Migration" because a couple have had issues when downloading it from the Autodesk FTP server. This white paper covers many of the best practices to follow in order to make migrations much more easy.

Download cust_manicapital.com

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Thursday, April 29,

Local AutoCAD Users Group Meeting Notice - San Francisco AutoCAD Users Group (SFAUG)

The next SFAUG meeting will take place on Monday, May 3rd and will be dedicated to AutoCAD. Shawn Gilmour from Autodesk will present the new release AutoCAD .

Doorprizes

Time and place:
May 3rd, pm.
SFSU Downtown Center
Market Street, room /

More Information on SFAUG see manicapital.com

I will be there along with a few other Autodeskers to assist and answer any questions people may have. Please introduce yourself to me as I always enjoy meeting local users of Autodesk products and understanding how they use our products.

Don’t miss it.

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Tuesday, April 27,

Background Mask Tools for AutoCAD by Lee Ambrosius

Lee Ambrosius has written some tools to work with the new AutoCAD feature Background Masking and posted beta versions on his AutoCAD related blog "Beyond the UI". Lee is a wealth of information and tools for AutoCAD.

LInk to Lee's post with the download of the tools:manicapital.com

The tools:

Cheers,
-Shaan

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AutoCAD Updated Migration Tools Released

The Autodesk web site has now been updated with the updated AutoCAD Migration Tools. There is also a migration best practices document.

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Best Practices for AutoCAD Migration PDF (62 KB)

Tools included

The following four tools are included in the Autodesk Customization Conversion Tools download:

1. AutoLISP Compatibility Analyzer details AutoCAD® and AutoCAD® compatibility issues found in AutoLISP and Menu LISP files. AutoLISP Compatibility Analyzer searches for known AutoCAD and AutoCAD compatibility issues. When an issue is found, an explanation of the compatibility issue and suggestions on how to correct it are provided.

2. Command Alias (PGP) Porter designed to help you bring your custom command aliases from previous versions of AutoCAD into AutoCAD or AutoCAD You can also use this tool to add, replace, or remove command aliases from any AutoCAD PGP file.

3. ScriptPro takes AutoCAD scripting to a new level with an easy-to-use interface, logging, reusable project files, enhanced scripting with new keywords and utilities, and robust error recovery. Using ScriptPro you can apply a set of commands to multiple drawings by simply specifying a script file and the list of drawings that you would like to apply the script to.

4. Layer State Converter allows you to convert between the layer states created by LMAN (one of the AutoCAD® Express Tools) and the saved layer states introduced in AutoCAD® i software. To use Layer State Converter, type one of the following commands on the AutoCAD command line:

CONVERTLS - Converts AutoCAD layer states to LMAN layer states.
CONVERTLMAN - Converts LMAN layer states to AutoCAD layer states.

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Monday, April 26,

DotSoft ToolPac for AutoCAD

Terry over at Dotsoft has done it once again with Toolpac for AutoCAD. He has packed over tools to increase productivity in AutoCAD into his new release of the popular ToolPac for AutoCAD.

For more info see the ToolPac website:
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Cheers,
-Shaan

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Alireza Parsai of manicapital.com and AutoCAD Table Tutorial

Tutorial on the new AutoCAD feature, Tables.
by Alireza Parsai of manicapital.com

Click the following link to view the tutorial
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Thanks Alireza for all of your great tutorials available on your web site and manicapital.com

Cheers,
-Shaan

Posted on April 26, at AM in AutoCAD , Helpful Resources, Tips–n-Tricks, Tutorials | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, April 20,

AutoCAD Electrical eBeta Enrollment Open

To enroll to be considered for this eBeta opportunity go to:
manicapital.com then follow the instructions especially the code name.

Cheers,
-Shaan

Posted on April 20, at PM in Announcements, AutoCAD , Beta Info | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

DWFit Hyperlink Style!!

From Mark Douglas MKM & Associates

"MKM is excited about the power DWF will bring to its office. We look forward to the day when we can jetison PDF and use DWF exclusively for many great reasons. Here's just one
Open the below DWF file in the free Autodesk DWF Viewer. It will open directly to a Plan sheet. Here you will see there are Detail bubbles. If you CTRL-Click the Detail bubble it will HYPERLINK you RIGHT to that detail Number on another Sheet. Using Autodesk DWF Composer has cut our Back check times in Half!! This was sooo easy with a little Lisp code and Robert/Myself's brain power. Plus has some cool AutoCAD tables in it."

Download DWF file

"LISP Used to link the detail bubbles to the hyperlinked details: Here is a explanation on what it does and how it works for our Company. We typically name our drawings. Job Number first then the Sheet name. So it looks like thisS1. Sand so on. Well the code strips out the information from the DWGNAME variable and makes. & S1. Then takes the Number from the detail Bubble. Say S2. Then Puts them together. S2. Then creates a hyperlink to the drawing. Using Misha's Convert Hyperlink to DWF then you're all set. here is the Code I use. It originated from some other code, then modified to fit our needs.

The Bottom part of the Code after the Hyperlink part is from Misha, A little too complicated for me. But works!!"

Download Edited LISP File

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Thursday, April 15,

Perfect Paper Space, Part 1 by Lynn Allen - Cadalyst

"EVEN AFTER 12 YEARS, the most frequently requested articles are those on paper space. So, after many moons (and many pleas from readers), it's time to dust off these tips and update them to reflect the new features in AutoCAD

A great deal of confusion still surrounds paper space, as evidenced by the extremely large turnout at Autodesk University for the "Lost in Paper Space" class (perfectly taught by Dan Abbott). There are also many different theories regarding the proper route to perfect paper space. I'll attempt to present the pros and cons of all sides and let you decide what works best for you."

Link to the Entire Article on Cadalyst Magazines Web Site

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Wednesday, April 14,

AutoCAD Information by AutoCAD Bible Book Author Ellen Finkelstein

Check out the updated information from Ellen Finkelstein on AutoCAD at her website. Ellen is the author of the very popular AutoCAD Bible books.

Features Shown:

Tables

Fields

Sheet Sets

Command tool palettes

Layer groups and descriptions

Text background masks

Trimming hatches and hatching almost closed areas

Plotting in the background

ZOOM Object option

New COPY command default

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Cheers,
-Shaan

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Tuesday, April 13,

Give AutoCAD® a Try, For Free!

You can order a free AutoCAD® Trial CD-ROM or a run the fully operational online AutoCAD® streaming trial.

AutoCAD® Day Trial CD
(This offer is valid only in the United States and Canada. For countries outside the United States and Canada, contact your local Autodesk Authorized Reseller)
Link to Order Form

AutoCAD® Streaming Trial
(Stream a full version of AutoCAD® to your desktop for 30 consecutive days at no cost. Create, view, save, and plot your own files and fully experience exactly how AutoCAD software operates in your work environment.)
Link to Streaming Trial

Make sure to have a look at the documentation to see what some of the new features are.
Link to Features Documents

Comparing AutoCAD with Previous Releases PDF White Paper

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Sunday, April 11,

AutoCAD Tool Palette Trick - Insert Block using LTSCALE

From Misha (Misha Belilovskiy) of Autodesk who posted this trick in a reply to a discussion thread in the public Autodesk discussion group for AutoCAD

You can't do it using AutoCAD UI but it is possible if you are not afraid editing your Tool Palette source ATC file. Here is how you do it.

If you would like to replace Auxiliary scale in tool properties (for instance with LTSCALE) you can do the following:

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Friday, April 09,

HIDE in AutoCAD® and Architectural Desktop - Article by manicapital.com

Nice online article showing the HIDE command options and results.

Link to Article

Also check out the site manicapital.com

Cheers,
-Shaan

Posted on April 9, at AM in Architectural Desktop, AutoCAD , Helpful Resources, Tips–n-Tricks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, April 08,

Combining Autodesk Network Licenses

Are you aware that you can combine multiple network licenses into one license? If you have a mix of network licensed products, you can combine them into a single license file for running a mix of licensed products or releases.

This could also be the products you upgraded in Autodesk Subscription program. Then when you roll out the new version you could continue to use the prior release until all your users have migrated or moved to a new project to start the new release.

Knowledge Base Article from manicapital.com

Link to Knowlege Base Article
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Cheers,
-Shaan

Posted on April 8, at PM in Architectural Desktop, AutoCAD, AutoCAD , Autodesk, Autodesk Subscription, Helpful Resources, Tips–n-Tricks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Custom Background Mask command for Mtext by Lee Ambrosius of manicapital.com

As a true AutoCAD master, Lee wrote and shared a quick LISP for the new AutoCAD feature Background Mask.

Link to Lee's article with a LISP file

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Thursday, April 01,

UK Architecture Firm Specializing in Timber Framing Using ADT

Chris Yanchar wrote a very nice blog article on Timber Framing and ADT. It is always amazing to see what our customers do with our products and their success.

If you have an exciting or interesting use of our products or the products you design using our products, send me an email at [email&#;protected] with the subject line of "Blog" and the details and I will spotlight it in this far reaching blog with thousands of unique readers per day. This is the most active CAD/Autodesk related blog currently on the web.

Here are some screenshots (click thumbnail for larger image):

The Link to the Blog "Between the Walls" article

Cheers,
-Shaan

Posted on April 1, at AM in Announcements, Architectural Desktop, AutoCAD, AutoCAD , Autodesk, Helpful Resources | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, March 30,

Tutorial: Interoperability Between AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop

Chris Yanchar has written a nice tutorial on the interoperability between AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop on his blog "Between the Walls".

"With the new ability for AutoCAD to natively read in ADT drawings, I thought a short tutorial about the advantages of collaborating with consultants with native ADT drawings versus exploding to 2D would be helpful. Also discussed is the basic interoperability between the ADT Project Navigator and the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager."

Link to Article: Click Here

Cheers,
-Shaan

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AutoCAD Online Streaming Trial is now live

Stream AutoCAD® directly to your desktop for 30 consecutive days at no cost. The trial currently available is a fully functional version of AutoCAD —including the ability to create, view, save, and plot your own files. This trial is available only in the United States and Canada.

Before initiating your trial, please read the recommended system requirements. Since the initial activation for the trial requires a download of 10–15 MB (depending on system configuration), we recommend this trial for users with high-speed Internet connections.* Please note that activation time will decrease after first use, while overall speed and performance will increase with greater use.

System Requirements

Software:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, Windows XP Home, or Windows (SP 3 or SP 4)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (SP1) or later
Macromedia Flash Player (Version or later)
Microsoft .NET Framework or later (New Requirement for Layers)

Hardware
Intel® Pentium® III MHz or AMD Athlon™ processor, or better
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Display resolution of X with True Color
Microsoft-compliant pointing device

Internet Connectivity
High-speed Internet connection (ISDN or higher)
PC Administrator privileges

Register for AutoCAD Streaming Trial

Frequently Asked Questions

*If you do not have a high-speed internet connection, you can request a day trial CD through our website or your local Autodesk Reseller.

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New Plotting and Page Setup Changes in AutoCAD Video Demo by Sterling Systems

Sterling Systems has produced a free online video demonstration showing some changes to the Plotting and Page Setups for the newly released AutoCAD .

Link to Site

Cheers,
-Shaan

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Monday, March 29,

Autodesk Subscription e-Learning Tutorials Posted for AutoCAD

For those on Autodesk Subscription, tutorials for AutoCAD are now available exclusively to subscription customers on the Subscription Center.

AutoCAD e-Learning Content Available now:

Cheers,
-Shaan

Posted on March 29, at PM in Announcements, AutoCAD , Autodesk Subscription, Tutorials | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Great AutoCAD/AUGI Resource With Some Really Good AutoCAD Articles

The current AUGIWorld Magazine Issue for March/April is out and defintely worth a read especially for the AutoCAD articles explaining some of the new features with tips and tricks. There is also a good CAD Salary Survey in this issue.