CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
The truth is all Autodesk products for 2012 version are ready in the near future. But as we here are talking about AutoCAD and Revit (for Autodesk product) then I will focus on these two. If you follow some other CAD bloggers on Twitter, then you must see how excited they are and your timeline [...]
I never really care about hardware specification before. When I first install Revit Architecture 2011, I see warning message that some features may not be supported by my graphic card. I simply ignore it. I have seen it on AutoCAD but nothing bad happened. If it works, why should I worry? But then I started [...]
If you do many building conceptual modeling, you must love this one. This application might be showing how serious Autodesk in BIM industry. The first time I tried it, it reminds me a bit to free version of SketchUp. With this tool, you can create building mass as conceptual design quite easy. Vasari looks and [...]
If you have followed CAD Notes posts since early this year, you may already read about project Butterfly. Now the project is gone, come out from beta, and released as final application: AutoCAD WS and AutoCAD WS Mobile. There are some buzz about it last week, but in case you missed it or wondering what [...]
This month, I’ve seen several posts about DraftSight, a free CAD software that support DWG files. I’ve tried it in few minutes, and it’s actually quite nice. For a freeware, it is a good software. For home and students, we can use it as alternative for AutoCAD. It looks like it, and feels like it. [...]
Read and discuss several possibilities to secure your AutoCAD drawings data. From password protected files to online sharing.
If you already use computers for quite a long time, then you must know how the software changing. Let us see DOS as the first OS I know. Then we get Windows 3.1 on DOS. Now DOS prompt is still there. We don’t see it when we start Windows. It’s only as a console that [...]
These days we can see many web based applications available. Some of them are free (with or without limitation) and some are premium paid services. I saw that Autodesk now also has several web based applications. I have to admit that I’m impressed what we can do with web based applications today. I tried Homestyler, [...]
