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AutoCAD Installation Troubleshoot
Yesterday, I had a call from our customer that fail to install AutoCAD. They send me the screen capture and it shows error code 1406. Without checking it further, I send this Autodesk support page link. After following the suggested steps, the installation still fail. So I went there and check it myself. It is kind of embarrassing what happen. Installing AutoCAD mostly is easy, so it kind of make me jump into unnecessary conclusion. So … Read entire article »
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AutoCAD Plotting Problem
Last week, I have two people called me and mentioned that they have problem with plotting. Both of them use AutoCAD 2010. Just in case you have similar problem, this might can help. AutoCAD Doesn’t Plot Properly, Plotting Different Area of Drawings The first issue reported is AutoCAD doesn’t plot as expected. They see the print preview correctly, but when they plot it, the margins and orientation is not correctly plotted. I asked them whether they can … Read entire article »
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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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AutoCAD Performs Incorrect Calculation
My friend notify me about this bug a couple days ago. He mention that when we use the QUICKCALC (or CAL) command, AutoCAD returns incorrect value. This is a bug. Try to calculate 750-693. You may see it returns incorrect value. I got 56. There are some more incorrect results. Yesterday, VMichl notify me that this issue has been fixed in AutoCAD 2010 update 1. Snipped from readme: The following defects have been fixed: (One of them … Read entire article »
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