CAD Tips & Tricks
Workshops, Technology Days, Breakfast & Training – Oh My!
It’s that time of year again… Early registration for our end of year workshops in North Carolina. This year we will have day-long events in Statesville and Asheville in November and [...]Read more
Did you know… About the Flatten Command?
FLATTEN is an Express Tools command in AutoCAD and a standard command in IntelliCAD. It allows you to quickly convert 3d objects to a 0-elevation, flat version of itself. Most of us in the [...]Read more
Did you know… about all the different selection methods in CAD?
Anyone who has used AutoCAD or IntelliCAD for any period of time will be familiar with a few of the selection methods available to you during editing commands… although you may not know the [...]Read more
Did you know… About the Change Space Command?
Some of us are old enough to remember life without the CHSPACE command… and what a great addition it was when the command was finally introduced to AutoCAD several years ago. And, with the [...]Read more
Did you know… that you can print your CTB files?
Several years ago when I started my business, my first contract was as an outside CAD manager for a civil & land planning firm. In trying to document their pen weights, screening, etc. I [...]Read more
Esri GIS Starter Kit for Carlson’s IntelliCAD Users – Repost
[This offer ended on 12/31/2013] Since there’s a renewed interest in IntelliCAD with the improvements to 7.0, I’ll re-post this… Those currently using Carlson with IntelliCAD [...]Read more
Did you know… About DWG Convert & True View?
As most everyone knows, every 3 years Autodesk ruins a perfectly good DWG format by introducing a new one… With the 2013 version of the Autodesk products now released, anyone using a [...]Read more
Did you know… about DWG to PDF?
Since I have to send so many files to different people in PDF format, I purchased Adobe Acrobat several years ago. Once installed, “Adobe PDF” shows up in my list of available [...]Read more
Did you know… About the CHSPACE command?
The CHSPACE (Change Space) command is simply a lifesaver for anyone using paper space to put together your project drawings. In AutoCAD, CHSPACE can be typed in at the command line or found in [...]Read more
That CAD Girl – April 2012 Newsletter
In case you missed it, here is our April 2012 Newsletter…Read more