CADtools – the early years
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.
CAD tools survey 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.
CAD tools survey 2011 Results
I posted a survey, “The CADbloke CAD tools feasibility study”, to assess the feasibility of releasing a few of my custom CAD tools into the wild. If you haven’t already done so, could you please help me out by completing the survey?
AutoCAD LT Missing Plot Styles
Plot styles names differ from the LT version. The run-of-the-mill “Color-dependent Plot Style Table” in AutoCAD is called “acad.ctb” but the equivalent plot style in AutoCAD LT is called “acadlt.ctb”. Why? DO NOT ASK WHY !! There’s nothing to be gained from that.
AutoCAD Find and Replace Wildcards are broken
I found this bug when doing a find and replace on some IP addresses in an AutoCAD drawing. I was using it as a template for a new drawing so I wanted to reset the IP addresses to a default to avoid duplicating the existing values. Here is what I started with … So, I [...]
ACNE and the case of the Missing Cable Numbers
I have run the drawing through ACNE more than once and I get the same result: some of the cables are missing from the cable schedule. Why?
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