February 4, 2012

The Batik Prizes have Arrived

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CAD Notes had an AutoCAD competition last March. We provided our e-books, batik arts (paintings) and batik shirts for the winners. The e-books download links were delivered immediately after the winners have been announced. But the batik shirts need some time to get the winners sizes and get delivered to them. I’m glad that finally [...]

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 [...]

How to: Set Local Help File as Default in 2011 Version

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There are many enhancements and changes in the new features of AutoCAD and Revit. One of them is the online help documentation. By default, the 2011 product line will attempt to open help file from Autodesk server. Wow! I can’t imagine how many users are using it at a time! The reason why Autodesk do [...]

Extra Mouse Speed Control

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This tip is not just for CAD application, but more likely a Windows tip. I found this thread in an AutoCAD forum, so I think you may use this too. It may sounds like a very simple solution for you. I believe most of you already know that you can control the mouse speed in [...]

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 [...]

AutoCAD Tips Competition Winners

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As promised, today we will announce the competition winners. All judges select their winners separately, and the contestants who get most votes are the winners. The winners selected by the judges are: Robin Capper selected: Murray Clack for tip #11 Edward Winter for tip #15 Josef Remes for tip #17 Assis Haubert selected: Murray Clack [...]

Poll Result: Should Autodesk Purge AutoCAD Command Line?

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A couple of weeks ago, I posted a poll ‘Should Autodesk Purge AutoCAD Command Line?’. The result is kind of obvious: 90% votes don’t want Autodesk to mess with the command line. 5% want it to be removed completely, and the other 5% want it to be removed, but leave it as an option. Don’t [...]

An AutoLISP Application That Deletes All Objects in the Layer of Selected Entity

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Hello, Edwin and me decided to share some of our articles between Daily AutoCAd & CAD-Notes. This is my first post for CAD-Notes readers. I want to share an AutoLISP utility which deletes all objects in the layer os selected entity. As Daily AutoCAD we prefe to give source code of utiliy so reader can [...]