February 2010

  • Using layer filters in AutoCAD

    Submitted by rkmcswain on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 13:24


    photo of a filter

    If you typically deal with a lot of layers in your drawings, and you are not using layer filters, then you may be subjecting yourself to unnecessary frustration. Depending on your discipline, a layer standard may contain 100 or more layers. Take your base drawing and add a couple of xrefs, and you could have hundreds of layers to sift through.

    So why doesn't everyone use layer filters? Maybe they don't want to take time to create them? Maybe it's unknown territory? Maybe they don't think they need them?

    Well, first off you only need to create them once in your template drawing(s) and second, there is nothing magical about creating them. The only real catch is you need some type of layer standard so that a filter in one drawing will work in the next. But most importantly, if you want to filter layers by name, your layer naming standard should be structured in such a way that makes this possible. Read more »

  • New Autodesk software: DVD or Download?

    Submitted by rkmcswain on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 08:04

    I try not to post new articles simply repeating others, but this is an exception (see link below). If you are on subscription and wish to continue receiving actual media when a new version is released - then you need to go to your subscription site and change the settings, because Autodesk has set you up for downloads only.

    Steve Johnson over at blog nauseam has more details on this situation. Read more »

  • Why drawing1.dwg will not close

    Submitted by rkmcswain on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 07:11
    Generally when you open AutoCAD, your default template is loaded and a drawing named "Drawing1.dwg" is presented to you. If you open a drawing using the OPEN command or using the Sheet Set Manager, the other drawing will open and "drawing1.dwg" will go away.  Read more »

 

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