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Office 2007 first impressions
I like to wait for the early adopters to report back on the first service pack before I deploy any major software releases myself. With that said, I’m just now getting my first taste of Office ‘07.
So far, I don’t have much good or bad to say about it. I guess it is what it [...]
Windows Tip: WindowKey + E starts up Windows Explorer
After years of observing Windows users, I’ve learned that most users enter windows explorer in the following directory:
c:\documents and settings\username\start menu
This doesn’t seem to be a very good starting place, but from what I’ve seen, most people launch windows explorer by right clicking on the start menu and selecting “explore.” Going back to the advent [...]
Vista x64 first impressions
I recently upgraded to Windows Vista x64 on a Dell M6300 with 4GB of RAM. So far I’ve been blown away by the snappy performance of the system itself and, in particular, all of the Autodesk software that I’ve run on it so far (Civil 3D 2009, AutoCAD 2009, Map 2009).
I’ve heard all of the [...]
Dragging child styles can create a \”multiply owned object\” warning
1. New drawing from acad.dwt
2. Save as ADVANCED.dwg
3. Create a general line label style named PARENT
4. Qsave ADVANCED.dwg
5. Right click on the PARENT style and select New…
6. Save the child style as CHILD
7. Qsave ADVANCED.dwg
8. New drawing from acad.dwt
9. Save as BASIC.dwg
10. Drag the PARENT [...]
Warning: An error occured during save
“Warning: An error occured during save” arises when saving a drawing which contains a style which was created with a layer from another “layer source” drawing.
1. File new from _AutoCAD Civil 3D (Imperial) NCS Extended.dwt (drawing2.dwg) 2. File new from acad.dwt (drawing3.dwg) 3. Under toolspace/settings for drawing3.dwg, right click on General-Label Styles-Line and select New.
4. [...]
“Middle of Text” mleader connection doesn’t work when text attachments contain fields
When using a multileader style with the leader connection point set to “middle of text,” the text attachment point jumps to the “middle of the top line” when any field is added to the text.
Figure 1 – Middle of Text justified mleader
Figure 2 – The same mleader with a field added
Thanks to Christian Billiot for [...]