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AutoCAD Map and Topobase – FDO and WYSIWYG
One of the more difficult aspects of using Feature Data Objects (FDO) is the fact that all of the styles in the Display Manager are What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG). This is especially difficult...
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AutoCAD CUI Custom Commands
It’s time to take a step back from all the Autodesk 2012 releases and look back into the past a little. The AutoCAD Customize User Interface (CUI) was a new feature of AutoCAD 2006. It’s hard to...
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Civil 3D Template Development Part 6 – Survey Standards
Civil and Survey templates overlap in many areas. Both templates will have styles for surfaces and alignments, maybe even profiles and profile views. Surveyors always seem to do more than just...
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Autodesk Exchange App – Translate
Autodesk rolled out their Exchange Apps recently. If you’re using a 2012 product you may have already noticed the new tab in your Exchange window. Exchange Apps is a place for developers to get their...
View ArticleLISP
I actually wrote this post a few weeks ago, but decided not to post it for some reason. Today I learned from Without a Net that the creator of the LISP language, John McCarthy passed away. If you have...
View ArticleAU 2011 – November 29th through December 1st
Autodesk University 2011 is less than two weeks away and we’re gearing up to make AU 2011 one of the best ever. Autodesk Topobase First up, we are presenting a class on the implementation of Autodesk...
View ArticleAuto Updating Data Links
Data Links are a great way to link tables in AutoCAD with Excel spreadsheets. If you update the Excel file you’ll most likely get a warning in AutoCAD that the file has been updated and needs...
View ArticleAutoCAD Plug-Ins
Custom programming for AutoCAD ranges from a simple command in the CUI editor to fully independent complimentary programs. However, the sweet spot seems to lie somewhere in the middle with custom LISP...
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Autodesk Exchange Apps – Selection Manager
Selection Manager is a free and easy to use AutoCAD add-in application by CAD Masters that allows you to quickly create, save, and restore selection sets in a drawing. Selection sets are saved in the...
View ArticlePressure Pipe Content Creation Tips
Civil 3D introduced pressure pipes a few years ago, but you largely have to create your own content libraries. The how-to of that content creation is pretty accessible across the web, but I wanted to...
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