February 8, 2012

The Best, the Rest, the Rare: 100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

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A compilation of AutoCAD tips. Read all 100 of them to increase your productivity!

Creating Your Own Revit Families

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Want to create your own Revit family? This e-book covers the basic, and provided with video that explains the exercises.

Preparation for Autodesk Certification Exam

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Last week, I had a chance to have Autodesk Certification exam for Revit Architecture 2010. Yes I know, the latest version is 2011, but for certification is still 2010 that available. I tried to find some people experiences and tips to pass the certification by googling. Many of the posts said that it is very [...]

Should You Upgrade to AutoCAD 2011?

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Autodesk has released their new products last week, on March 25th: the 2011 version. One of them is AutoCAD 2011. No, I won’t write a list on what’s new on AutoCAD 2011. There are several big blogs/sites already covering this. CAD Panacea and Cadalyst has good review. Shaan Hurley has listed many blogs that already [...]

25 Readers Most Favorite AutoCAD Tips

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AutoCAD Tips competition has reach the deadline. There are many interesting submission, and as promised, the winners will be announce next Monday. These is the list of tips submitted. However, I do feel that the contestant are not trying to submit their favorite post, but their best tips they can write. Nothing wrong with that, [...]

Should Autodesk ‘PURGE’ AutoCAD Command Line?

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I personally think command line era is over. It’s not cool anymore to have it. In this post, I would like share my opinion. I also would like to have your opinion: do you think Autodesk should ‘purge’ the command line from AutoCAD? Do you think it is an important productivity tool?

AutoCAD Block Best Practices

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Create and manage your AutoCAD block as your productivity tool. Good reusable contents will reduce repetitive task, and add intelligence to your drawings!

Autodesk Project Butterfly

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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 [...]