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    Autocad 2007

    People, Mauro did not say anything about scaling a drawing. He mentioned how to convert from inches to millimeters. That is it. To convert from one unit to another or even add a unit all you have to do is go to your dimstyles or setvar's. Don't make a ten second job a five...
  2. CadAndy

    Autocad 2007

    Scale the drawing who was your teacher? Go to your dimstyles and click on the tab that says primary units. You can figure it our from there. Don't waste your time scaling the drawing. If you have to scale a drawing to get the right dimenions you should not be drawing in AutoCAD or giving...
  3. CadAndy

    Help With Symbols

    Coming from a surveyor that is his symbol for tree. There's nothing you can do unless you have his database file that translates code into symbols. This is a big problem in Civil Engineering and transferring data between surveyors and Engineering firms. Chances are he has Carlson Surveying...
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    Scale-able blocks??

    If you have symbol manager look into that, otherwise its probably a model space, paper space issue. Sounds like your symbol is being set at a scale before its entered into the drawing which also might be affected by your ltscale. Sometimes your first set-up a drawing your ltscale will effect...
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    ACAD @ not working

    I don't know about regular AutoCAD but in Civil 3D they removed it and it bugs me to no end. Andy
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    Slope Analysis?

    2006 Civil 3D can help you out if you have the software same with 2005 Civil 3D. Like Carl said you need some type of surface or contours to be able to do it on CAD. There's always the manual way of calculating slopes. Andy
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    Where is Autocad going?

    I like how smcadman posted the ratio of CAD programs. If AutoCAD has approximately 400,00 users and has gone down in the last two years from 480,000 and Solidworks just went over 230,000 users with their 2003 version how does that add up to 3.3% and AutoCAD 54%. Must of been an AutoCAD...
  8. CadAndy

    Dimensions of 16" sch 10 steel pipe

    I'm not sure if your going to find the chart anywhere I looked all over. The Letco site only lists a few sizes but its a general idea. I worked for a company who had a table of every dimension for seamless Pipe and it was an old xerox copy that I have not been able to find anywhere. I copied...
  9. CadAndy

    Design Tables vs New Configurations

    Has any found any advantages of using a design table vs adding configurations or the other way around. It seems the design table needs to be updated when needed which seems like an extra step. On the other hand you can say the same with configurations. Both seem to work efficiently but...
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    Where is Autocad going?

    There are to many AutoCAD users to be finished Small Architectural and Civil Engineering firms are still using AutoCAD. For the Larger and more knowledgeable companies. Autocad is being phased out. I been at three companies within the last four years that have not upgraded and started looking at...
  11. CadAndy

    Insulating a Foundation

    I did some more checking into the Vapor Barriers and it is NOT recommended that you place a vapor barrier or vapor retarder it most situations. The ACI 302 committee only recommends a retarder of 0.25 mm thick to protect from moisture. There are three sites below that will explain it in more...
  12. CadAndy

    Tolerancing Dispute

    I have to say it depends on your boss. My Boss has to have everything the old way. As he says the people in the shop can bearly understand english and he doesn't want to change anything. Its hard because you get trained under the new ANSI standards and some of the Engineering Managers don't...
  13. CadAndy

    Insulating a Foundation

    This looks similar to SuperiorWalls where the insulation is within the concrete. This part I understand but when applying vapor barriers they do not recommend applying the vapor barrier to the exterior a building. Thanks for the info though
  14. CadAndy

    Insulating a Foundation

    Some contractors have suggested or actually adding styrofoam around and beneath a foundation for insulation. From what I understand this is considered a vapor barrier which causes condensation to build up between the styrofoam and foundation walls. Over a period of time especially in colder...
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    Equations in Assemblies

    Has anybody found a way to use equations in an assembly or can they only be used for parts?
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