Tuesday, November 13, 2012

AutoCAD WS now supports Civil 3D Drawings


Great news. At least for the mobile AutoCAD WS users.
AutoCAD WS, for the iPad at least, now supports Civil 3D drawings, and it works great.
When you open an AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing in the AutoCAD WS app you will see the drawing in one of the 3 available Views: 2D, 3D Wireframe and 3D Solid. You can easily switch to either one of those Views.
If you have a Surface in the drawing, the 3D Solid View will show you the solids of the triangulation of the surface. Just like you would see when you make use of the Object Viewer by selecting the Surface within AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Switching to 2D View will show you the drawing in Plan View.
Switching to 3D Wireframe View will show you the drawing in 3D View showing Civil 3D objects like Feature Lines and more.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Save Table Cell Formatting as Style


Did you know you can know store cell level formatting for quick use later. Simply format a cell in a Table the way you want it, right-click the cell and select “Cell Style --> Save As New Cell Style …” 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Change Grip Mode With Spacebar


When simply clicking on a grip when an object is highlighted you automatically go into the stretch command. Press the space bar and you go into the move command. Press it again and you go into rotate, again for scale, and again for mirror. 

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Changing the visual effects of selection and rollover highlighting


Want to change the visual effects of selection and rollover highlighting? Advanced settings can be found in "Options->Selection->Selection Preview group->Visual Effect Settings…"

Monday, September 10, 2012

Copy with a base point


Copy with a base point the simple way; 'Ctrl+Alt+C' then select your base point, 'Ctrl+V' to paste.