May 18, 2012

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]

Please Update Your RSS subscription

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  Yesterday, I decided to switch RSS service to feedblitz, and stop using feedburner. It’s not like feedburner doesn’t provide good service. They are good. However, I’m thinking to get more capabilities from my feeds, newsletter, and other services that feedburner doesn’t have. You can now subscribe to Twitter (receive updates as DM), Yahoo! messenger, [...]

Help Us to Improve Our New e-Book

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Dear CAD Notes readers, I’m working on an e-book that covers everything about AutoCAD block. From the basic to new and advanced features like annotative blocks, dynamic blocks, using constraints, extracting the blocks to create reports, and sharing it to your colleagues within network. The objective is increasing your productivity significantly using blocks. I want [...]

I Love the Ribbon!

Yesterday, I just get my ‘I Love the Ribbon’ T-Shirt from Robin Capper. Robin is one of the famous CAD bloggers (more famous than me, obviously) and post many good information about BIM in his CAD blog. I have posted several times about ribbon interface, mostly for AutoCAD. AutoCAD users maybe the one who suffers [...]

Which is Your Favorite AutoCAD Release?

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Image source: Shaan Hurley Flickr Album I have been using AutoCAD since R.13. I heard many people don’t like that release, but it looks fine for me :). I use almost every release of AutoCAD since then. Some are not for so long, but at least I get how they look and feel. There are [...]