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Time for a Coffee Break?

Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 27th April 2007

You got your C3D & LDT media, fired it up, and started creating some Deployments. So you read some e-mail and surfed the web. Celebrated a birthday. Read War & Peace. What the hell is taking so long? Apparently there’s a bug in the deployment creation tools. There’s a workaround, so check it out here. This was brought up in the webcast today, but bears repeating.

Posted in 2008, Network | 1 Comment »

Preventing the Big Purge

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 27th April 2007

There are two kinds of offices.  Those who don’t know what the purge command does, and those who run the purge command every time they leave AutoCAD to check their email.

The difficult thing for me to teach people is that a few extra layers in your drawing (say, items from your standard layer list that aren’t in use right now) are OK, but a heap of last year’s inserted wblocks need to go.  There is a fine balance between keeping your drawing cleaning, and wiping out your template.

Click more to find out a trick to keep your important elements from being purged….

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Posted in 2007, 2008, Best Practices, General | 6 Comments »