AutoCAD discussions

Learning to draw in 3 dimensions

Could anyone recommend a book for teaching myself to draw in 3d? I do residential architectural design only and am fami...

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posted by karen

6 comments posted 19yrs posted by karen

2007 3D: haow to assign material to layers ? **********

Hello With Autocad 2007, in 3D I can assign materials to objets. But how can I assign materials to layers ?

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posted by hpspt

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by hpspt

totaling lengths of separate lines

Anyone know a way to total the lengths of separate lines without setting up a table and all that schmage?

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posted by glehman

4 comments posted 19yrs posted by glehman

Re: New Way of Creating AutoCAD Drawings

...or you could just use the BOX and CYLINDER commands, and skip all of the other stuff. ___ > > This is the base of th...

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posted by nospam

5 comments posted 19yrs posted by nospam

CATV Symbols

Anyone have a set of SCTE symbols for cable tv design in R2000 format? Thanks, Ian

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posted by ismacdonald

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flattening 3d layers

Is there a way to select 3d objects and assign them the same y (or x, or z) coordinate? Thank you!

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posted by zemleroi

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AutoCAD 2005LT and Adobe 5.0

My company has AutoCAD 2005LT and up until a week ago I was able to convert DWG. files to PDF by simply going to plot a...

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posted by jburch

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by jburch

HELP

3d rotate is broken. it acts like normal rotate. whether I hit the toolbar, pulldown menu or type in 3drotate at the co...

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posted by longshot

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by longshot

Video Card

Hi, Will the Nvidia 7900 GS run well with apps. like Autocad 06 & 3D Studio. I currently am running a pentium 4,3.2 and...

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posted by oohbadooba

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Compatibility

Can a 2007 drawing be opened with 2006?

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posted by rudykube

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by rudykube

Date stamp

How do I get a date stamp automatically printed on my prints, ACAD 2007 Brian.

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posted by bfairey

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autocad 3d exercises for download?

I'm looking for something like this in a link below and similar sketches if someone knows if they could be downloaded f...

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posted by teanbol

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view ports etc for plotting

I am new to plotting with autocad , using 2007 and am confused as how to set up views in order to plot and how to set up...

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posted by cathyglover

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by cathyglover

.....Dim Text Options.....

Do Acad 06 and 07 really have different dim text options (see below examples), or is there some setting that controls w...

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posted by cadguy

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ACAD 2002LT - Problems left mouse button

Hi folks, I installed an old 2002LT version on an new DELL. All works fine except: - mouse will generate QUICK INFO whe...

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posted by petra.leber

1 comments posted 19yrs posted by petra.leber