Rendering with AutoCAD? Why not. It can produce very nice result since 2007. Autodesk change the render engine with mental ray. It’s not exactly the same with mental ray in 3ds Max, but it is good enough. Every image in this post is created with Revit, and rendered with AutoCAD. Isn’t Revit also has mental [...]
Creating Sketch From Your AutoCAD Drawing
July 30, 2009 by 7 Comments
Images on the left looks like hand-drawn sketch (you might have to click on the image to see the larger image). It’s actually an AutoCAD drawing, with a little tweak on visual styles. This is from a sample file included in AutoCAD 2009 installation. AutoCAD has this capabilities since AutoCAD 2007., when Autodesk made major [...]
Enable Network License Service Behind Firewall
July 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Another troubleshoot on network license using flexlm. If you are using LM Tools/flexlm, you might found your client workstation cannot find the license service. When you perform status enquiry, you see your license server is actually running. When you check on your client workstation, it can access your server. What’s wrong? I found this problem [...]
How to: Combine Your License File
July 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I found this problem when I installed AutoCAD and Civil3D network license on the same license server. As we know, Autodesk use Flexlm to manage license on server. I can’t make them both work! In flexlm, if I started AutoCAD license service first, then Civil3D service won’t start. And vice versa. I saw in the [...]
How to: Get Hi Res Image from AutoCAD?
July 29, 2009 by 3 Comments
Do you need to create a high resolution image from your AutoCAD drawing? No, this is not about AutoCAD rendering. This is about how you can get high resolution image from your lines and arcs. It might be layouts, elevation views, etc. I had this question several times. You can just plot your model/layout. Try [...]
Creating Roof
July 27, 2009 by 1 Comment
Let’s go further with our Revit tutorial. In the last tutorial, we learn about creating floor. Now we are going to create roofs. There are 3 ways to make this building component. By footprints, extrusion, and by face. In this tutorial, we will discuss about creating it by footprints. In your Revit project, open your [...]
Using DWF and PDF as Underlay
July 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Are you familiar with DWF (design web format)? Or PDF (portable document format)? Both are vector document that are used for document sharing via email or website. These days, both of them become a familiar file format we receive, because people don’t want us to get their original DWG. Or we don’t want people to [...]
A Simple Guide: 12 steps to Mastering AutoCAD
July 21, 2009 by 14 Comments
I saw in Twitter that a lot of people having trouble learning AutoCAD. I’m not sure what is the problem, but I think learning AutoCAD is not too difficult. In this post, I will try to write a simple guide for you who are learning AutoCAD. No, this is not a tutorial, but it’s about [...]