CADtools – the early years

By CADbloke on August 18, 2011

I wrote this Attribute Generator to generate series of attributes, rather than copy ... click ... edit ... copy ...click ... zzzz. As you can see I'm no UI expert. It ain't pretty but it has saved me a lot of time over the years. The settings at the top-left are for generating ACNE-compatible attributes.

This post is to clarify what I’m talking about in my Survey. These are some of the tools I have been using for a few years. I’ve handed them around to a few colleagues I have worked with over the years and they seem to find them handy.

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CAD tools survey 2011

By CADbloke on August 16, 2011

I have been coding time-saving tools for my own use in AutoCAD for years. I have had prods from various cohorts over the years to release these tools into the wild. That is what this survey is about.

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AutoCAD Layers are not Layers

By CADbloke on September 14, 2010

AutoCAD Layers are not Layers

AutoCAD “Layers” should be called Collections, or Bundles. They are a way of grouping objects (lines, blocks, text, whatever you like) together so you may easily adjust properties they share.

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Full-screen Shortcut for AutoCAD

By CADbloke on March 26, 2010

Full-screen Shortcut for AutoCAD

I wanted a full-screen shortcut like Internet Exploder, Firefox and other web browsers, just for having a good look at a drawing on the whole screen with no distractions.

The Cleanscreen command is a good start but it didn’t go far enough for me, so I hacked it and added a few things to it. Now my full-screen has only the Top window bar with the quick-access menu and nothing else.

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One Version of the Truth

By CADbloke on November 27, 2009

One Version of the Truth

There should only ever be One Version of the Truth in any documentation system. This is the one problem that will cost you more time and heartache, via inconsistencies conflicts and mistakes, than anything else I have discovered so far.

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