Hot Tips for Cold Days (Hot Tip Harry AutoCAD Tutorial)

This month’s top tip winner automatically dimensions polylines. Go to Source  Read More →

Edit the URL of WordPress blog for recovery

One of my blogs is down, and for unknown reasons, an automatic URL jump takes place every time. By googling, here is the solution: (original article can be found here) Edit the “functions.php” in your active theme folder; Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial “<?php” line. update_option(’siteurl’,'http://example.com/blog’); update_option(’home’,'http://example.com/blog’); Save... [Read more]

Getting Into the Geography Awareness Week Spirit

Back when ESRI had just released PC ARC/INFO (for the cutting edge DOS) and way before Google was a research project, the United States Congress passed a joint resolution signed by Ronald Reagan proclaiming that Geography Awareness Week would be held in November.   The Great Communicator signs Geography Awareness Week into law Remember, it isn’t... [Read more]

WELDING DRAWING - problems with dims, leaders etc

Dear Colleagues, as you can notice from the picture, I have numerous problems with dimensioning welding in drawings. I use WF4, metric dimensioning. Decimal places are set to 0, lead_trail_zeros are set to std_metric. I would stress three of my problems: 1) Is it a bug in Pro/E, or it is impossible to control decimal places? Somehow I always get four... [Read more]

product origin

One thing in Catia that has always messed with me is the fact that products don’t have coordinate systems and origins. In proe all products have a center. I’m working with a model right now and have encountered something that is bugging the hell out of me. I have a product and inside that product I have assembled a skeleton and a bunch... [Read more]

E-mail large files

Most service providers will allow you to e-mail files upwards of 10 or 20Mb. But it never fails, you have a single file to e-mail a client, the client isn’t comfortable with FTP, or you can’t access your site, and you have no choice but to e-mail it or drive it across town - [...] Go to Source  Read More →

AUTO SPACING OF TEXT

IS THERE A WAY TO AUTOMATICALLY SPACE TEXT THAT HAS BEEN CREATED IN SINGLE LINES? ‘MULTILINE TEXT’ SETS THE SPACING CORRECTLY, BUT I AM TASKED WITH MAKING CORRECTIONS ON HUNDREDS OFDETAIL DRAWINGS THAT REQUIRE CONSISTENCY. THIS IS NOT A DIMENSION LINE SPACING, BUT TEXT LINE ONLY. Go to Source  Read More →

Getting free tools and books via twitter

For all of you manager-tools followers, (I’m one too!) I thought I’d post a quick note about twitter. I use it to keep a loose connection to my friends and acquaintences and hopefully to move some of the information firehose known as “email” into a more appropriate tool. Twitter can help to get your inbox to zero too!But it... [Read more]

site layout help?

Ok, i know in a perfect world when starting a project , and you have intentions to throw a legit site plan into it, you prolly should use the actual elevations (from the civil drawings) but let’s say you go through the project just using 0′-0" for finish first floor, and then say you get the civil layout with the actual elevations,... [Read more]

Help Needed

im working on this project where i have to make a water tank that needs to fold over and i cant find a way to make each object stay together and fold on one axis from 90 Degrees to 180 Degrees anyone have a soultion Go to Source  Read More →

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