Today I was working with corridors on the subdivision that I am working on. I typically like to view the surface of my street design with the object viewer. As a default I have my contours, tin and points turned on for model view in the surface styles properties. Since my corridor is over 3 miles long, which also includes 2 roundabouts, 3 cul-de-sac's and 3 intersections, it has become really slow when I rotate, pan and zoom in the object viewer. I noticed today that if I turn off my points style options for model view, the object viewer performs 10 times faster and smoother. In addition, my hardware acceleration options is also turned off. I just thought I would share this with yall. Have a great afternoon.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
AutoCAD 2011 for Mac
Wow what a stressful and busy week it has been. Anyways, as we all know, you can now run AutoCAD on Mac computers. I have provide a link to the free download trail version. Enjoy.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
AUTODESK 0% FINANCING
I received an email today that Autodesk is now providing 0% financing on all Autodesk software. I think this is amazing and a great idea. See link below for more information.
Tip of the day–Pipe Sizing
Tonight I was playing around with my pipes properties and noticed something I have always ignored or not paid too much attention to. If you go into your pipe properties, part properties tab and scroll down to resize behavior options. C3D has the resize behavior set to invert as a default. When I am sizing my storm pipe I would typically just do a pipe swap and match the 2 pipe connections within the null storm structure properties.. A quicker way to do this is to change your pipe resize behavior to crown, so the 2 connected pipes will match at the crown. This works well when you have a null structure as your structure. I just thought I would share this will yall.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
February Knowledge Base
I hope everyone enjoyed the super bowl weekend and the artic weather we had last week. Talk about major traffic jams and accidents lol. I had to go downtown Saturday night, and traffic downtown was a nightmare. Anyways, I haven’t been home much but I plan on posting a few times this week. I have provided Autodesk knowledge base issues that was posted for February. Enjoy
2011 How To Improve Performance in Drawings Containing Hatches
Friday, January 28, 2011
Knowledge Base–Survey Point Offsets
Here is Autodesk knowledge base post for January. To change the subject, I will be doing a post next week on how to create point offset for survey shots such as power poles. This is an issue I have seen posted in the Autodesk forum and an issue our survey department has been trying to solve. Well I decided to help out today and throw my 2 cents in, since I really don’t try to get myself involved with the survey stuff lol. Anyways, I will do a post Monday or Tuesday on how I got around this problem. Thanks for stopping by.
Missing Linework when Plotting with "Legacy hidden" shade plot mode
2011: Slow xref selection in External References Palette
2011: AutoCAD hangs when using ADDSELECTED command on a leader object
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sheet Set Manager Tips
For those of you having problems with the sheet manager pulling up the wrong sheet set to a drawing that has not been assign to a sheet set, here is a simple fix. I am posting this after reading some posts on the Autodesk discussion group forum.
Helpful Commands
- SSMAUTOOPEN = automatically open sheet set manager
- SSMSHEETSTATUS = refresh status setting
- SSMSTATE = indicts of sheet set manager is open and close
- SSMPOLLTIME = automatic refresh time settings
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