Tag Archives: 2012

AutoCAD 2012 Slowdown

We’ve been having a couple of calls recently about drawing slowness in the 2012 products.  Just in case you are experiencing this, Autodesk released a hotfix that seems to solve the problem.  If anyone out there is running into the … Continue reading

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Arrays as Linetypes

With the advent of the associative arrays in AutoCAD 2012 products, we’ve got a great new tool with some interesting possibilities.  Recently, I wrote about using Civil 3D alignments as complex linetypes.  Linetypes with text, direction arrows, fence linetypes, etc.  … Continue reading

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AutoCAD 2012 – Edit the UCS Graphically

The UCS is a challenging aspect of AutoCAD, despite how innocent it seems. We often recommend that people never change the UCS. Here are a couple of reasons that we usually tell people always to leave the UCS set to … Continue reading

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AutoCAD 2012 Box Shot-Cover and Installation

Some of you should have installed AutoCAD 2012 by now and if you have, then you were probably mystified by what you were actually looking at on the box’s cover.  In case you were, Autodesk has a wonderful video on … Continue reading

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Inventor Vs. Inventor Fusion

Inventor Fusion comes with AutoCAD 2012.  We’ve been very excited about this product ever since seeing it in Autodesk Labs and learning that it was going to be a part of the AutoCAD 2012 product line. Inventor Fusion is a … Continue reading

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