See what’s new in AutoCAD 2009…

It looks like there are a lot of great new features. I am especially excited about the new Action Recorder - probably because I’m so lazy. Read more »

I plan on attending this webcast tomorrow at 11:00 am PST. If you wanna join, register here:

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I have been an AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) member since 2004 and have submitted quite a few wishes for AutoCAD and Civil 3D. I also participate on their forums every so often. If you aren’t an AUGI member, it is beneficial to join. Read more »

I like my text to always be left-justified. Call me strange but I think it looks odd when MLEADER text is right-justified like in this picture.

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When Autodesk released AutoCAD 2007 I noticed that when I inserted a block or XREF it would sometimes scale up or down in a way I didn’t expect. After a little digging in the help file I found these system variables: INSUNITS, INSUNITSDEFSOURCE, & INSUNITSDEFTARGET. Read more »

I received an email from Cadalyst today telling about their new CAD Tips library - formerly called “Get the Code”. If you’ve ever used Get the Code before, you know how difficult it was to find what you were looking for. With their new CAD Tips, it is much easier to browse AutoLISP and VBA by category and you can still search by keyword. Check it out…

Recently I made some recommendations for setting system variables relating to annotative objects in our standard drawing template (for AutoCAD 2008). Here they are with an explanation as to why. Read more »