After working on some autolisp code where I needed to create several HATCH entities, I figured that using (entmake) to do the job would be much faster than pushing the command line version of the HATCH command. I didn't have my own example of this,...

I see a lot of posts in the discussion groups where someone creates a PDF from a drawing and the PDF file size ends up being several times larger than the drawing itself. OLE objects or images in the drawing. Both can cause the resulting PDF to be...

Time once again to vote in the AUGI Board of Directors election of 2009. Please make note of the following items. There are 8 positions to be filled There are 9 candidates on the ballot You may vote YES for (0) candidates, up to 8...

Peter Funk from Autodesk commented in this thread earlier this month that Civil 3D 2010 would run on Windows 7. The list of Autodesk applications that are supported on Windows 7 was recently updated to reflect this:...

Here are a couple of quick tips on External References. Rather than opening the External References palette, then right clicking to attach a reference, you can go use the ._XATTACH command to go directly to the "Select File" dialog. You can still...