My company is looking at Solidworks and Inventor to go to 3D. Currently we are using 2D autoCAD to get done what we need to get done. I have demos of each coming in next week.
My question is this.
Does anybody currently use Solidworks for skid mounted equipment? If so is it worth it? Our...
Well I almost fainted today.
Playing around with my new AutoCAD 2005,
and found that they finnally added a Center Line Symbol!
20+ years of people complaining that they needed this and there it was.
Now if I can only find out whose bright idea it was too have two versions of the simpfrac font...
Can you create a viewport and use the SOLPROF command?
That would be the easiest way.
Everything ends up on the same layer, but it is 1:1
and correcting the layers usually isn't that bad.
One of my favorite commands is the boundary command.
It works very similiar to the bhatch command, but instead of putting a patter fill, it puts either a closed polyline or a region around the extents. Then you can extrude either of these. Of course like the bhatch command all your corners...
This used to be a feature in Lotus that many people loved, which you can't do in excel without special programming.
Make a button, and modify the below macro to fit your needs inside the button. Basically this is how it works.
In my case if my line item sum = 0, then my column A = |.
Then the...
Let me rephrase my question, I agree with you lha, good riddence to the manual days. But there were a lot of things taught in the manual days that still need to be taught to the AutoCAD gurus of the world. People just don't make pretty drawings anymore.
Some of my biggest pet peeves...
Another thread got me thinking about this.
Where have all the drafting classes gone to?
They are plenty of classes out there where you can learn how to use AutoCAD, but I have noticed that it's almost impossible to find a drafting class short of community college.
I would figure there would be...
What is the best way to get Mechanical Desktop 6 Solids into Straight AutoCAD 2002. I have about 30 parts in one MDT6 file that I would like to bring into just regular AutoCAD.
I have done this before, but it was a long time ago and I forget very easily.
Let me say thank you for your help in...
Purity,
Reading your post you could have been talking about me. I am Design Manager, Senior Designer, Small Projects Manager, and the IT guy. All for a company that has roughly 30 employees.
This is how I handle it. When I get in the morning, I make sure my projects and designers are...
I think what you are looking for is the dview command.
I use this all the time to do exactly what you are talking about.
Create your viewport, double click inside of it to go to model space.
Dview command, (Select a couple of objects for reference, don't need them all)
Twist
-90
Then get back...
I am just curious if anybody else has run into this problem I am having.
I consider myself an above average designer, and I could be wrong here, but here is the situation. For the last two years the lead designer on most of my jobs has let me do most of the design work and he checks it, tells...
I think what you are looking for is the following settings.
Use these when working with 3D curved surfaces or solids in ACAD, should work for any release.
Hideprecision = 1
Dispsilh = 1
isolines = 0
facetres = .5
