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Greetings!
This newsletter is being sent out early due to the
Thanksgiving holiday. We will return to our regular
schedule next week.
Have a wonderful holiday with family and friends!
The AUGI Top Ten List is the most opportune time of
the year to get a message to the Autodesk
development team. Throughout the year AUGI gathers
your wishes on how AutoCAD can be improved. They
then give you this opportunity to pick the "best of the
best" for the Annual AUGI Top Ten List. For many
years, it has been a ritual to present
the Top Ten List to an Autodesk executive live on
stage at AUGI's annual meeting.
Go to www.augi.com to place your vote.
So What's New in Inventor R8?
Inventor R8 was released a few weeks ago. Sean
Dotson has created a pdf which details how the new
features work in Inventor R8.
One feature that I like a lot is the new Contact
Analyser.
To activate the Contact Solver, go to Application
Options->Assembly. At the bottom of the dialog, you
see that you can enable the Contact Solver. If you
select the Contact Set Only, you can designate just
the parts in your assembly which will hit. This will
speed up the analysis process.
To define a component as part of a contact set, select
the component, right click and pick the Contact Set
option in the menu.
Find out more from Sean Dotson....
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Contest for Undergraduate and Graduate Design Students |
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Students can now submit electronic systems designs to
a contest
sponsored by the Design Automation Conference and
the International
Solid State Circuits Conference. Deadline is December
12. The
contest, open to graduate and undergraduate students
at colleges and
universities worldwide, accepts designs for analog,
digital, and
programmable circuits and systems in two categories-
operational,
which means it was built and tested, and conceptual.
In 2003, the
Student Design Contest had 51 submissions from six
different
countries and 20 different schools.
More information... »
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Free Lisp Routine for AutoCAD users |
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Dennis Grubb, of Adelaide, Australia, requested this
routine.
The routine allows you to create a selection set of
blocks to be replaced. You may substitute a new block
and the new block will be inserted using the insertion
point, layer, scale, and rotation angle of each block to
be replaced.
The source code is open so you can see how it works
and heavily commented.
Download the routine »
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SFAUG Celebrates the Holiday Season |
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The San Francisco AutoCAD User Group will be holding
their annual Holiday party on Thursday, 12/11 evening
at Gordon Biersch restaurant on Harrison and
Embracadero.
Email sfaug if you want to attend. They need to
organize the room, etc.
Full Story »
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Can't Make it to AU? |
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This year during the AUGI Annual Meeting and in the
AUGI Booth, AUGI would like to show our members'
pictures. Pictures of you at your workstation...pictures
of you at a LUG event...or just a picture of you waving
your greetings are all good. If you have
something "AUGI" to include in your picture, that's even
better.
Please make your photo a minimum 640 x 480 pixel size
and in .gif or .jpg format. Then email us the photo at
VirtuallyThere@AUGI.com.
If you would like to be seen at AU, send us your photo.
We hope you will participate...it is sure to be a lot of
fun!
Find out more about AUGI »
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Create a Vanilla AutoCAD Desktop Icon for ADT/MDT |
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OK, you popped for ADT or MDT, but sometimes you
just want to work in plain vanilla AutoCAD without the
extra menus and icons.
In R14, it wasn't a problem because when you installed
MDT, you got an icon on your desktop to launch
AutoCAD. In the most recent releases of ADT and
MDT, the icon is no longer automatically created.
- Highlight the ADT/MDT shortcut on your desktop.
- Right click and select Copy.
- Right click and select Paste Shortcut. (A copy of
the ADT/MDT icon will appear)
- Highlight the copied icon. Right click and rename to
AutoCAD2002 or 2000i (depending on your release)
- Highlight the renamed icon. Right click and
select 'Properties'.
- Select the Shortcut tab.
- Enter the following in the target field:
"C:\Program Files\Autodesk Architectural
Desktop\acad.exe" /p autocad
Note: You may have to change this depending on what
path the acad.exe file really is located in. If you
press 'Apply' and get an error message that target is
not found, it is because you did not set the correct
path.
- Change the icon to the AutoCAD icon by pressing
the icon button in the lower right corner of the
shortcut dialog. Browse to the folder where the
acad.exe file is located. Select acad.exe and click
Open. Then select the AutoCAD icon and click OK.
In my installation, the icon was located in the following
folder:
C:\WINNT\Installer\{5783F2D7-0134-0409-0000-
0060B0CE6BBA}\Acad2002.exe
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Figuring out Projects in Inventor R8 |
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It can be daunting to figure out which project mode to
use in Inventor. Autodesk Vault? Semi-Isolated Master
Project? Semi-Isolated Workspace? Shared Project?
Single User Project?
To help you figure it out, I have created a very simple
one page flowchart. You can download it from my
website.
I have found one bug with projected so far in Inventor
R8. If you highlight the project file name in Windows
Explorer and use the Open With->IPJ option, the dialog
box won't connect properly. It works fine if you use
Edit.
Also, for some reason, you must be connected to the
Internet when using the Inventor R8 project editor...I
think some users may have an issue with this as a lot
of companies have firewalls to prevent unnecessary
polling on their internet connections.
To download a flowchart »
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HVAC Tools Now Available for Building Systems |
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HVAC Content Power Pack Extension for Autodesk
Building Systems
2004, available October 30, expands the duct-fitting
catalog by
almost a third and provides a majority of ASHRAE
fittings. It also
includes an assortment of mechanical MvParts and U.S.
metric 3D
plumbing fittings. If you still want more parts, it
features a set
of tools to create new ones.
If you are on subscription, you can download this
extension for FREE from Autodesk's website.
Find out More... »
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Tips and Tricks |
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ADT 2004 Express Tools
Several readers have brought to my attention that the
Express Tools in ADT 2004 are hidden...
The Express Tools are on the second CD in your two CD
set.
You can insert the second CD.
Browse under Support/Express.
Select the setup.exe file.
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