| Off to SolidWorks World |
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| I leave on Sunday to attend SolidWorks World in beautiful San Diego. This will be my second SWW and the first time I present at a SWW. Lots of chatter in different SW blogs about my attendance. Last year I was able to fly under the radar and it made it very enjoyable for me. This year I fear the cat is out of the bag. I envision SW users lying in wait ready to pounce on me. One user writes on a blog - What's an AutoCAD Guru doing at SWW?
Well, if every AutoCAD user is suspect, there wouldn't be that many users attend SWW. After all, most CAD folks started with AutoCAD, even if it may not be their current primary tool.
My presentation is on horizontal modelling which I think is an important topic. I submitted to present the same topic on Inventor for AU two years ago and it was turned down. My case study is a model I did for my current company. By applying HM methodology, I reduced design time by almost 80%, increased manufacturability and took the file size from 19 MB to 2 MB. That's no small feat and I bet a lot of users will be curious to learn how I did it.
Inventor users will never know (unless Autodesk decides to change their mind and let me present my paper at a future AU), but SW users who attend my class will get to see first-hand what horizontal modelling is all about and how to apply it in a real world situation. |
| Getting your Fonts to Appear Properly in AutoCAD |
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| If you are using a non-standard font, it may or may not appear properly in AutoCAD. You have a couple of choices to make sure AutoCAD recognizes your font.
1) Copy the font to the /AutoCAD <ver>/Fonts directory
2) Add the file path where the font is located to the search path using the Options dialog. Select the Files tab and add the path under Support.
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| Setting the MaxHatch in AutoCAD |
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| If you get an error message that your hatch scale is too small, you can reset the maxhatch setting by typing (setenv "MaxHatch" n) where n is a number to control the density of the pattern...the higher the number, the greater the density...lowest number is 100, highest number is 10000000. Note that MaxHatch is case sensitive. |
