Mike reviews Investintech’s Able2Extract PDF conversion application within the context of a day to day CAD user. How does it stack up with respect to converting pdf’s to Microsoft Office formats, but also of significant importance to our readers, converting to DWG.
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You’re awesome so you’ve built the perfect AutoCAD Block… now what? How do you share this block with other drawings and other people? Mike is here with his own brand of awesomeness to help you out with WBLOCK and block libraries.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages Design & Motion proudly brings to you, its Autodesk University speakers Mike Thomas and Gavin Bath!
If you’re heading to Las Vegas for Autodesk’s annual user-conference, we invite you to join us for one (or all four!) of our Inventor classes. John will also be seen lurking around Vegas too, so make sure to track him down.
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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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With the release of Solidworks 2015, Dassault Systèmes threw in a little gem, a new product offering focusing on 3D documentation and annotation called Solidworks Model-Based Definition (MBD). Mike takes a first look at what it is and if there is a role in industry for it.
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