SubscribeArchive for June, 2007
DWG to PDF driver does not work as expected (lineweights, origins, margins, rotation, output)
Starting with the 2007 releases, Autodesk included an HDI PDF driver along with AutoCAD and its vertical applications. This was a big selling point since many customers were misled into believing that they wouldn’t have to purchase 3rd party PDF writers for use with AutoCAD. Unfortunately, the “DWG to PDF” driver (pdfplot9) has several very [...]
Can’t edit workspaces via CUI editor
In AutoCAD 2008, when you try to add or remove toolbars, menus, palettes or panels to your workspace from within the CUI editor, it appears to save the changes when you exit the editor. When you’re back in the drawing window, however, none of your workspace edits are actually saved.
Workarounds:
This appears to be directly tied [...]
Scales from xrefs create excessive scale list
If you use xrefs regularly, scales from your xrefs can start to appear in your current drawing like this: 1″ = 30-0″_XREF_XREF_XREF
Workarounds: To reset the scale list in your drawing, run the following at your command line:
-scalelisteditRYE
To reset the scale list in every drawing that you open, put the following line into your acaddoc.lsp file.
(command [...]
*** PROFILE COMMANDS DO NOT WORK ***
In Land Desktop 2008, most profile manipulation commands simply do not work. This is absolutely inexcusable as profiling is integral to all civil design work. This is definitely a bug that warrants a pre-service pack hotfix. Autodesk’s reply to me is as follows:
Thank you for contacting Autodesk Support.
The issue that you are having is a [...]