You might be familiar with annotation scale within AutoCAD, but are you aware that blocks can be made annotative? Mike explains all in this post, as well as providing a video explaining what the ‘Match block orientation to layout’ option is used for.
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Mike continues the series exploring blocks within AutoCAD, this time he looks at additional methods of sharing blocks across your team and a FREE Autodesk repository of pre-built content.
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Mike covers how Attributes provide a method to have variable text within a block. Providing the ability to insert multiple instances of the same block definition but each one with different attribute value.
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Gavin doesn’t like iParts and iAssemblies…. at all. Here, he tries to convince you that there are better ways of creating and placing configurable components in your assemblies.
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Autodesk Vault is a great PDM product most of the time, but it can turn around and bite you if you aren’t careful or inexperienced. Scott shares some techniques he’s discovered during the heat of battle to help with recovering overwritten files within Windows Explorer for the two most common CAD operating systems of the moment, Windows 7 & Windows 8.1.
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Here it is, Mike’s first post in the new AutoCAD Deep Dive Series, covering AutoCAD’s extremely handy Blocks. To successfully use the stalwart of CAD applications, becoming proficient at creating, managing and interacting with blocks is an absolute must for any AutoCAD user worth their salt. So if you are sweet AutoCAD user, then stick with us and you’ll be a salty AutoCAD dog in due course!
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Mike’s AutoCAD Deep Dive series is back! Due to popular demand and the amount of fun we had with our series on AutoCAD Layers, Mike is delivering another multi-part series on key AutoCAD functionality, this time BLOCKS.
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Most people have a real love-hate relationship with Vault’s Copy Design… its big, clunky, and very slow…. but its still better to use than manually copying and renaming files. With this mid-year release Autodesk set out to build a bigger, stronger, and much faster Copy Design and voila we have it now in Vault 2015 R2! So what does Mike think about it?
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In this final “Deep Dive” post Mike looks at using Layers within Blocks and Xrefs, as each has it own special place in the Layer world.
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When you’ve received a drawing who’s layers don’t match your standard don’t fear the Layer Translator is here to save the day! The Layer Translator? You’ve not come across it before? You don’t know where to begin. Mike’s got your back with more of his AutoCAD magic, click through to check it out.
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Mike rocks some CAD Standards verification and compliance tools in this ongoing series covering our deep exploration of AutoCAD Layers. Read on to find out how to ensure you adhere to a set group of layers.
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Mike serves up his second AutoCAD layers dish with this post detailing how you can leverage the Layer State controls within your daily CAD workflows.In this continuing series on AutoCAD Layers, we’re taking a deep dive into not just using layers, but using all the tools at our disposal, simply to be as efficient as possible. The one constant thing about layers, is they are in a constant state of change… When you find yourself repeating the process of performing repetitive layer state changes to a group of layers, you need to look at using Layer States.
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