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Can I Render Wireframe Image from AutoCAD?

February 19th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Can I Render Wireframe Image from AutoCAD?

This is an inquiry in CADtutor forum: Can I render wireframe image from AutoCAD? I’m not sure why we ever need wireframe image. But the answer is no. However, we can get the required image by using plot command. In the shade plot option, we can set the shade mode to wireframe. This allows us to plot to any type of visualization, including rendering images and visualization styles. Anything you can set in visual styles, you can have … Read entire article »

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Troubleshoot: Block Attributes Won’t stretched

February 3rd, 2010 | Add a Comment

Troubleshoot: Block Attributes Won’t stretched

I have someone asking me why his dynamic block is not working as he expected. He created his own coordinate label based on this tutorial on CAD Notes. Only the northing coordinate label move, and it move strangely unpredictable. As you probably have the same problem, I decided to publish it here. First I suspected that this has something to do with defining objects for the stretch action. However, I don’t find anything wrong about the … Read entire article »

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Autodesk Project Butterfly

January 27th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Autodesk Project Butterfly

I received an email from Asaf Sagi, Autodesk product manager in Project Butterfly: http://butterfly.autodesk.com. He invited me to give this project a try. So I did. I am amazed with what this project can do. First, I’m thinking this is similar to Google docs. In some ways it has the same concept. We can upload our drawings, edit it online, and download it after we finish. But there is a very interesting tool for collaboration … Read entire article »

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Shaan Hurley’s Best of AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2010

January 15th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Shaan Hurley’s Best of AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2010

Just want to share with you. I read in Shaan Hurley’s blog about the best AutoCAD features he picked from AutoCAD 2007 to 2010. You can download it as a pdf document. This is pretty much what I’m trying to share in this site. I write how you can be productive with AutoCAD, and not using it just as drafting tool. It’s definitely worth to read. If you find difficulties to find the download … Read entire article »

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