I would like to get suggestions from the community about an external B.O.M. or parts list program. What are your thoughts about it? Suggested software or programs or ideas…
I am building a database to handle an external parts list, using MS Access. It’s very detailed and relatively...
how do I save a 3d model from Desktop 2006 back to desktop 2005. I can IGES and STEP but that doens't take the parametrics along with it. It should at least be backwards compatable.
Tz
What do I need to do to get a lisp routine to pause and let me change layout tabs and then continue on. for example I would like to insert 2 zone blocks, one on sheet 1 and the other on sheet 3,
Anybody develop any custom drawing Formats???
Here is my task and background thougths...
We currently have Acad 2005. We use layout tabs. Our Sht 1 has an attribute that contains all the pertinent info, dwg name , dwg number, date, sht X of X.
Our subsequent sheets contain another attribute...
Has anybody used/created a lisp routine that will allow you to select the objects... then auotmatically, change properties to layer 0, color Bylayer, ltype bylayer and then convert to a block using typed name or anonymus name remove object and insert in same location?
This sounds like a LISP...
Anybody played around with fields yet?
I am trying to get a total number of tabs. I can use ctab to harvest the name of tab, but I really need the qty of tabs or the variable (if any) to read the last tab.
Also, looking to remove the ".dwg" from the dwgname variable.
I am currently using...
I have a weird thing going on with my drawing. My drawing was created in ACAD 2000 and we have upgraded to 2006. When I opened the drawing in 2006 everything was fine, I worked on it for a while and then while switching back through the tabs I notice something startling, my leaders had shot off...
I am using MD 2006, how do i find the CG of my part and how do I document it on a drawing, for example in my detail prints I have a front, top & side view with dimensions, I would like to add a CG marker and dimension it out.
Any ideas? Thanks Travis
Has anybody been able to get values from attributes to fill out multiple blocks with the same data, such as drawing numbers on a multiple sheet drawing.
Does anybody have any 3D models of complete structure (frames, stringers, skin) of any light twin props, such as Beech Kingair 200 series or 90 series? Preferably, something that can be imported into Inventor or Solidworks.
I seem to have lost the setting that allows objects to ghost or preview when being copied. It used to show the object faintly on the end of my crosshair to allow me to see where I am coping things to. This setting also affected the arc command. Does anybody know of the variable or setting to...
Is the an inquiry as to the last person that edited a drawing? or is the a tool to grap last persons loginname?
any help would be greatly appreciated.....
tzinger
has anybody had any luck with making a hyperlink in a dwg?
I have tried to insert an NAS1149 washer with a hyperlink to the spec. sheet in PDF format, so that when you click the block the PDF file will open up. Is this the incorrect use for autocads version of hyperlinks, i hope its much like a...
I want to be able to print extents in my layouts, but my ordinate dimensions leave a node at absolute 0,0 which throws the extents all out of wack. Can I shutoff or turn off the nodes but still maintain associative ordinante dimensioning?
Is there a tool to copy a detail from paperspace(including viewport geometry, paper space dimensions and text) to a new drawing and maintain the paperspace annotation.
