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AutoCAD Tutorials
- 100 Circles. Secrets of AutoCAD QSELECT
- An AutoCAD Tip, Beware the Big ‘A’.
- An Introduction to AutoCAD Page Setups.
- An introduction to AutoCAD’s Plotting options
- AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts, easy productivity hack!
- AutoCAD Layering productivity, never use the Layers pull down again!
- AutoCAD Line Type Scales, The Secret Truth.
- Autocad Plotting, What is hidden beneath the Plot Dialogue arrow?
- Autocad: Plotting 101
- AutoCAD: The Ribbon & The ‘Classic’ Workspace
- From CAD to CAM, Cleaning up 2D DWG files for CNC.
- Getting Pally with AutoCAD Tool palettes [Tips & Tricks]
- How to ‘Shrink Wrap’ AutoCAD Masked Text.
- How to create and edit AutoCAD Polylines
- How to create AutoCAD Blocks to reuse standard geometry
- How to increase your productivity with the AutoCAD properties palette.
- How to Lock down the AutoCAD User Interface
- How to optimize your AutoCAD DWG drawing files
- How to remove non-standard text styles with the AutoCAD Standards Manager
- How to start up in AutoCAD ‘Vanilla’ profile with Vertical products.
- How to Use AutoCAD Groups to organise your geometry
- How to use AutoCAD layers to organise your Geometry
- How to use AutoCAD’s ‘FIND’ and ‘REPLACE’ command to correct text strings.
- How to Use AutoCAD’s Annotative Hatches
- In a spin with AutoCAD Blocks and Tool Palettes [Tips & Tricks]
- Let me make you an (AutoCAD) Star!
- More AutoCAD Options for Plotting success.
- Nine AutoCAD tips to increase productivity and make your life easier
- Shining a light on AutoCAD DIMs
- SSM Untold: Accessing saved views from the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager
- Take charge of AutoCAD’s layers with Layer Filters
- The easy way to Import AutoCAD Page Setups
- Troubleshooting AutoCAD selection problems, The ‘PICKFIRST’ System Variable.
- What every Drafter needs to know about AutoCAD Grip Editing
- When and How to Convert AutoCAD Ellipses into Arcs
- Where are my AutoCAD support paths?
CAD Management
Guest Posts
- A Beginner CAD Drafter’s Plan for Income Growth
- A Digital Workflow
- AUGIworld August 2012 The truth about sharing Inventor Data
- AutoCAD Import PDF to DWG – the Future is Now
- Autodesk Digital Prototyping Forum 2011
- Autodesk Inventor Pattern Optimisation
- Autodesk Manufacturing Northern Europe | Autodesk Inventor Hole & Thread Data
- Between the lines | How to create AutoCAD Hatches that use curved shapes
- Between the lines. How to create a PDF from AutoCAD with a single click (and a bit of typing).
- CAD Clue | How to extract 2D AutoCAD geometry from an Autodesk Inventor DWG Drawing File
- CAD Notes: Eleven killer viewport macros
- CADnotes.com | How to use the AutoCAD status line to provide real time reporting
- Class ‘A’ Surfaces with Autodesk Inventor?
- Develop3D Inventor 2013 review by the CAD Setter Out!
- Ellen Finkelstein’s AutoCAD Blog – How to lock AutoCAD’s user interface
- How to fix your AutoCAD 2007 to PDF solid hatch problems
- How to set AutoCAD up to show a permanent plot preview
- iLogic, Playing by the Rules | AUGIworld
- In a spin with AutoCAD Blocks and Tool Palettes [Tips & Tricks]
- Learn how to write scripts for AutoCAD and speed up your plotting
- Nine AutoCAD tips to increase productivity and make your life easier
- What design software today could best meet furniture market tendencies?
- While Shaan’s away – the bloggers will play
Inventor Tutorials
- 101 Autodesk Inventor productivity tips you can use right now!
- 5 Quick tips, Autodesk Inventor Application Options
- An Autodesk Inventor iCopy Tutorial
- Autodesk Inventor for Woodworkers – Where do I start?!
- Autodesk Inventor for Woodworkers: Gottshall Block Part Modelling Exercise.
- Autodesk Inventor for Woodworkers: Sketching, Keep it simple!
- Autodesk Inventor Sheet Metal Flat Pattern success!
- Autodesk Inventor sketching quick tips
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. An introduction to G0 Surface continuity
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. An introduction to G1 Surface continuity
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. An introduction to G2 Surface continuity
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. An introduction to G3 Surface continuity
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. An introduction to Surface continuity
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. Applying surface continuity
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. Curvature continuity and sketch constraints.
- Autodesk Inventor surfacing. Surface continuity conclusion.
- Autodesk Inventor T-Splines Troubleshooting
- Autodesk Inventor, Assembly techniques for woodworkers: The ‘Top Down’ or ‘In Place’ modelling technique.
- Autodesk Inventor, Assembly techniques for woodworkers: The Skeletal Modelling technique.
- Autodesk Inventor, Creating a coordinated BOM for Large Assemblies
- Autodesk Inventor: A quick tip to temporarily turn off Constraint Persistance.
- Autodesk Inventor: Assembly techniques for Woodworkers
- Autodesk Inventor: Assembly techniques for woodworkers, The Bottom up technique
- Autodesk Inventor: Assembly techniques for woodworkers, The Multi-Body Master Part Technique.
- Easily switch to construction geometry in Autodesk Inventor sketches.
- How and When to use Autodesk Inventor Level of Detail Representations to create large Assembly drawings.
- How to copy Autodesk Inventor Parameters between documents.
- How to get started with Autodesk Inventor Stress Analysis
- How to Measure, Dimension and Specify Arc Length In Inventor Sketches.
- Inventor Constraint Persistence: My Best Friend. My Worst Enemy.
- Inventor iFeatures: Lamb’s Tongue Chamfer
- Inventor iFeatures: Lark’s Tongue Chamfer
- Inventor iFeatures: Stopped Chamfer
- Inventor surfacing. Reading 2D Curvature Comb Graphs
- Inventor Tips: Add Known Parameters First.
- Inventor Tips: Constrain your sketch to the center point.
- Inventor Tips: Start your sketch on the right plane.
- Learn Surface modelling for Autodesk Inventor is launched!
- The CAD Setter Out’s Autodesk Inventor iFeatures Primer
- The secret to successfully copy an Autodesk Inventor design
- What are T-Splines? And how can I use them?
- What every drafter needs to know about Autodesk Inventor iFeatures.
- What every drafter should know about Autodesk Inventor’s Trim and Extend Commands.
Personal Posts
- …And the start of something New…
- AU 2012 – here I come…
- AutoCAD 2015 Blogger day – One Market Street San Francisco
- AutoCAD 2015 Blogger day – Pier Nine
- AutoCAD 2015 Blogger day – the anticipation
- AutoCAD 2015 Blogger day – Welcome to Tiburon
- AutoCAD 2015 Blogger day – Pick and mix Suites?
- AutoCAD Blogger day 2015 – in conclusion
- BIM Show Live 2011 – Introducing the CAD Setter Out
- BIM Show Live 2012
- Cad For Project Managers: How to feed and water your Setter Out.
- Cadsetterout class submissions for Autodesk University 2016
- CP10847: Complex Topology Surface Modeling with Inventor (Autodesk University 2015)
- Digital Cabinetmaking at BIM show Live
- Do you review drawings?
- Driving Inventor with the top down, Live at AU 2012
- End of the year round up 2011
- End of the year round up 2012
- End of the year round up 2014
- Happy Halloween 2011.
- Hey! Me and 11,999,000 of my Buddies can’t be at Autodesk University. How can we learn, connect and explore?
- How to install and configure Autodesk SAAS 2023 in your Browser
- Inventor to Revit interoperability and file sharing: Are you a Revit user? this is your Call to Action!
- IT10856: AutoCAD Tool Palettes Master Class (Autodesk University 2015)
- Moving on up – Moving on out
- Paul Munford Joins Graitec
- So you made it to Autodesk University, what now?
- Taking your Drawing Office from good to great
- The CAD Setter Out: End of the year round up 2010
- The Medieval Roots of ‘Setting Out’.
- The ultimate rookie’s survival guide to Autodesk University
- Top Ten Autodesk Blogs
- Welcome to the CAD Setter Out
- What every Project Manager needs to know about CAD.
- What is a Blog?
- What is CAD?
- What is RSS?
- What is Setting Out?
- What makes a great Technical Drawing?
- What’s left to learn?
- What’s new in Autodesk Inventor 2017?
- Which Direction is Autodesk Headed? A tech info rant
- Why Setter Outs aren’t (and don’t want to be) Designers.
- Zen and the Art of Technical Drawing
Resources
- 15 Top CAD Tips from the best of the best
- 4 Proven Strategies to Become a Better Drafter
- AfraLISP, The Ultimate AutoLisp, Visual Lisp and VBA for AutoCAD resource.
- AU Online – Autodesk University all year round!
- AUGI, the Autodesk User Group International.
- AutoCAD and Inventor, 2D to 3D Conversion through DWG True Connect.
- AutoCAD questions answered; Lineweights and plot styles
- AutoCAD Tips Blog | How to Add Hyperlinks to AutoCAD geometry
- AutoCAD’s Match Properties command
- Autodesk University, Are you attending?
- British Standards : The Construction Industry
- CAD Junkie | Choosing a 3D CAD Package
- CAD Notes | The Best, the Rest, the Rare: 100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know
- CAD Notes | Using Multiple Hyperlinks with AutoCAD Block Attributes
- CADing && Coding, An Easy Way to Publish Drawings from Different Folders.
- Carnegie Mellon University’s On-line AutoCAD training manual.
- Don’t forget to send in your Autodesk Inventor Crash Reports!
- Everything you never knew you needed to know about Recessed Screw Drives
- Feature Migrator for Inventor – Autodesk labs Plugin of the month
- Find out how to add Meta information to your AutoCAD DWG Files with ‘Propulate’
- Five great resources for Setter outs.
- How to adjust the Snapshot pixel resolution in Adobe Acrobat Reader
- How to Create a Mortise iFeature with Autodesk Inventor
- How to improve performance in AutoCAD drawings containing hatches
- How to open or save a DWT, Outside of AutoCAD’s default path.
- How to remove unwanted formatting from AutoCAD Text with StripMtext Lisp.
- How to Turn Google Chrome into a Wicked cool DWF Viewer.
- How to use Autodesk Design Review with Inventor, to create, mark up and round trip DWF files.
- IMAGINiT Manufacturing Solutions Blog | Inventor File Translators – 2009-2015
- My CAD Site: Free AutoCAD Tutorials
- Roy Mech Engineering – A great resource for Drafters
- Setting Out Classical Mouldings
- Skatterbrainz and the AutoCAD purge command
- Testing the Autodesk Labs Thread Modeller for Inventor Plugin
- The Autodesk AutoCAD Master Tips List.
- The CAD Setter Out’s top 5 CAD forums.
- The CAD Setter Out’s World Famous Dynamic Wood Screw AutoCAD Block
- The Official Autodesk Inventor Podcast. Exchanging DWG files between AutoCAD and Inventor.
- The surprising secret to my CAD success
- Top down design with Autodesk Inventor at Autodesk University 2013
- Top ten CAD Blogs
- Why you need to attended Develop 3D Live! conference 2015
- Wood Screw Head Types
Reviews
- ‘Is that AutoCAD? Running on a Mac?!’*
- An introduction to AutoCAD 2013
- An Introduction to AutoCAD 2015
- An Introduction to Autodesk 123D.
- An introduction to Autodesk Inventor 2013
- An introduction to the Inventor Mesh Enabler from Autodesk Labs
- Autodesk Inventor gains momentum for furniture makers
- Autodesk university 2010 – Post event round up
- Autodesk University 2011, Nexus 360, Fusion for Mac, and Software for all.
- Book Review: Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2012 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2012 By Curtis Waguespack
- D3D Live! Conference review 2012
- D3D Review, Autodesk Inventor 2015
- D3DLive 2013! Were you there?
- D3DLive! 2014 Conference review
- Do you wish you had Flatter files?
- Have you checked out Autocad for Mac, iPad and iPhone?
- Review, CAD-Notes AutoCAD Block best practices
- Review: 50 Digital Wood Joints
- Review: ADN Plugin of the Month, Draw Order By Layer for AutoCAD
- Review: Swift Prints 2.0 For Autodesk Inventor
- Testing Autodesk Lab’s latest ‘CAD in the Cloud’ solution – Project Quickshare
- The Autodesk 2012 Product Design Suite for Builders
- The Autodesk Building Design Suite 2012 for Building Contractors.
- The Autodesk Digital Prototyping forum 2010
- Your questions answered – Must have CAD books for Drafters
Technical Drawing Standards
- An Icon to represent the ISO Standard Line types
- British Standards, The CAD Setter Out is the BSI Insider
- CAD Standards, Less is more?
- Engineering drawing frame border size
- Technical Drawing Standards
- Technical Drawing Standards: A Brief History (BS 308 and all that).
- Technical Drawing Standards: Centring Marks
- Technical Drawing Standards: Dimension Styles
- Technical Drawing Standards: Grid Reference Frame.
- Technical Drawing Standards: Leader Lines.
- Technical Drawing Standards: Lettering Heights
- Technical Drawing Standards: Line colours.
- Technical Drawing Standards: Line Type Definitions.
- Technical Drawing standards: Line Types.
- Technical Drawing standards: Line weights.
- Technical drawing standards: Linetype scale.
- Technical Drawing Standards: Paper Sizes
- Technical Drawing Standards: What’s in a name?
- Technical Drawing Standards: Which standards do I follow?
- Your questions answered, Dimensioning in model or paper space?