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Greetings!
Inventor R8 Intermediate Text Now Available!
My Inventor R8 Intermediate text is now available. I
have expanded the section on VBA fo those users who
are interested in customizing and boosting Inventor's
power.
This text also includes information on how to create a
shortcut in Inventor - a new feature in R8.
You can download a sample chapter from the
publisher's website. If you are an instructor, please
contact the publisher to get your free copy of the text.
Find out more....
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Have you ever wanted to work in true 3D? |
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The Sharp Actius RD3D is the world's first autostereo
3D notebook. Sharp Corporation's TFT 3D LCD
technology makes it possible to view eye-popping 3D
images without special glasses.
The notebook, which retails for about $5,000, features
a 2.8Ghz CPU, 512MB SDRAM (expandable to 1024), a
15" display, and comes with Windows XP Professional
installed.
Read on... »
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Lock a Layer with VBA |
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Four different events could be used to keep a layer
locked. Below is a VBA example
that keeps a layer named "Layer1" locked. The
EndCommand locks Layer1 if the
layer command was run. The ObjectModified changes a
global flag to true when
the Toolbar is used to unlock the layer. When a
command is started the BeginCommand
checks this flag and locks the layer. The
SelectionChanged event checks this
flag and locks the layer when an entity is selected.
To test this example, download the code from the link
below. Then, copy it into the ThisDrawing module in
the VBA editor
Download the code here.. »
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Try out Vue 4 Professional |
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A free trial version of e-on software's Vue 4
Professional 3D natural
scenery studio is available for download. You must
register to
download and use it. The trial is fully functional, but
you can't save
or export. Rendering is limited to 640 X 480 resolution
and animations
can run only five seconds. The software runs on
Windows and Mac OS X.
With its intuitive, production-oriented layout, you will
quickly create and enhance your production with
incredible wind-swept SolidGrowth 3 trees and plants,
volumetric atmospheres and rich terrains in fully
animated scenes.
Download the trial »
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Win an iPod! |
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Autodesk is holding a drawing to give a free iPod to all
those who download their DWF Viewer. Heck, I'd
download it just for the shot at the iPod...don't need to
install it.
With Autodesk Express Viewer, a small, free,
downloadable application, you can view and print DWF
files. What you see is exactly what the designer
intended, because the information cannot be changed.
Register to win! »
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Civil 3D Object Enabler Now Available |
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Autodesk posted a Civil 3D object enabler for use in its
AutoCAD 2004-
based lineup of products. It lets those products display
and access
objects created in the Civil 3D product.
Download the Civil3DOE.MSI file »
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To go from LDD to Civil 3D |
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You want to import project data from Autodesk Land
Desktop into Autodesk Civil 3D.
The ARX file the General > Import Data From Land
Desktop command uses must be manually loaded before
you can use the command for the first time.
- On the command line, enter APPLOAD.
- In the Load/Unload Applications dialog box, under
Startup Suite, click Contents.
- In the Startup Suite dialog box, click Add.
- Locate the \Civil\AeccUiDataMigration10.arx file, and
click Add.
- In the Startup Suite dialog box, click Close.
- In the Load/Unload Applications dialog box, click
Close.
- On the General menu, click Import Data From Land
Desktop.
By adding the ARX file to the Startup Suite, the ARX file
will automatically load each time you start Autodesk
Civil 3D.
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MYSTERY'S SWEET SOLUTION |
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It's a question important to shippers, merchants and
experts in packaging: What shape allows you to pack
the most objects in a container?
The answer: M&Ms.
A research team led by mathematician Aleksander
Donev at Princeton University found that M&Ms (oblate
spheroids, in their language) can be packed much more
densely than ball bearings.
The result, according to commentary by David Weitz of
Harvard University, ``explains why eating M&Ms for
lunch one by one always takes longer than eating a bag
of spherical candies of the same total volume.''
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Creating Chinese MTEXT with VBA |
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The problem in creating Chinese text is with the text
style associated with the default MTEXT setting.
Changing only the True Font in the Characters drop
down box (in the MTEXT dialog)
doesn't help in this case. We should make sure that
there is at least one text
style that can display Chinese properly. To make that
happen, create
a new text style with Style command, use big font by
enabling the Big Font check
box in the Text Style dialog, choose gbcbig.shx for
Simplified Chinese or Chinese.shx
for Traditional Chinese, last save the style definition
and close the dialog.
To download sample VBA code and instructions »
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