I have posted a quick review of whether you should upgrade to AutoCAD 2011 or not. Basically you can do almost everything in AutoCAD 2010, except for the transparency. We are talking about 2D drafting here, no 3D yet. However, there are some nice enhancement in AutoCAD 2011 that can make you achieve what you […]
Should You Upgrade to AutoCAD 2011?
Autodesk has released their new products last week, on March 25th: the 2011 version. One of them is AutoCAD 2011. No, I won’t write a list on what’s new on AutoCAD 2011. There are several big blogs/sites already covering this. CAD Panacea and Cadalyst has good review. Shaan Hurley has listed many blogs that already […]
AutoCAD Tips Updates
Last week, I have published 25 favorite AutoCAD tips submitted by the competition participant. This is just a short post. I would like to post some updates and notify limitations about the tips: The tip #3: Using zoom extend while array still active apparently doesn’t always work. It works for relatively small drawings, but not […]
Community Command for AutoCAD
I know there are some major CAD blogs already cover this. However, just in case you miss it I also post about it here. I consider this is very interesting. AutoCAD has many tools that you can use to achieve the same thing. That is exactly why I had the AutoCAD tips competition at the […]
25 Readers Most Favorite AutoCAD Tips
AutoCAD Tips competition has reach the deadline. There are many interesting submission, and as promised, the winners will be announce next Monday. These is the list of tips submitted. However, I do feel that the contestant are not trying to submit their favorite post, but their best tips they can write. Nothing wrong with that, […]
Best of CAD Notes: 20 Most Viewed in 2009
Before we continue with new tutorials and tips, let’s look back a little. There are over 140 articles in CAD notes after 7 months running. I know it’s not such a big number, but it’s interesting to see what people want to see on CAD Notes. So I look into CAD Notes statistics on Google […]
Things that happened on CAD Notes in 2009…
Dear CAD Notes readers, Merry Christmas to you who are celebrating… and happy new year to you all! 2009 is almost end. CAD Notes has been running for 7 months now. I know it’s still very young. Therefore I thank you for trusting CAD Notes as one of your CAD resources. I don’t think CAD […]
AutoCAD Performs Incorrect Calculation
My friend notify me about this bug a couple days ago. He mention that when we use the QUICKCALC (or CAL) command, AutoCAD returns incorrect value. This is a bug. Try to calculate 750-693. You may see it returns incorrect value. I got 56. There are some more incorrect results. Yesterday, VMichl notify me that […]