May 13, 2012

What Kind of Hardware That are Recommended for CAD Applications?

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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 [...]

Book Recommendation: Autodesk Official Training Guide

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Update: Autodesk 2012 products are coming. If you are looking for AOTG for 2012 products, please find it here. I have posted a review about AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 – No Experience Required. I’ve been wondering what are the other Autodesk official training guide (AOTG), so I did some searches. I found some [...]

AutoCAD Look a Like, What’s your Opinion?

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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. [...]

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 [...]

Introduction to Annotation Scale

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If you want to learn basic and concept of Annotation Scale in AutoCAD, you can read this tutorial. There is more details on other article. Learn the basic, and see how it works!

AutoCAD and Photorealistic Rendering

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Rendering with AutoCAD? Why not. It can produce very nice result since 2007. Autodesk change the render engine with mental ray. It’s not exactly the same with mental ray in 3ds Max, but it is good enough. Every image in this post is created with Revit, and rendered with AutoCAD. Isn’t Revit also has mental [...]

File Dialog Box is Missing

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Have you ever lost your AutoCAD open dialog box? I had this question several times. I never experience this, but it looks like this is a common issue. I found many similar thread in some AutoCAD forum. This thread is an example. When AutoCAD ask us to open a file, either DWG file or other [...]

4 Reasons to Love AutoCAD Dynamic Input

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Don’t like AutoCAD Dynamic Input? There are some advantages of using it. You may love it after you know them!