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Advanced Method to Clean a Corrupted CAD File

Advanced Method to Clean a Corrupted CAD File

by Mark | Jul 21, 2013 | Featured, Info Transfer, Power Tools, Quality Control

If you tried the basic DWG file cleaning procedure and you are still getting Audit errors or recurring items in the Purge list, go to the Advanced Super Cleaning Method below.

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Cleaning a Corrupted AutoCAD Drawing

Cleaning a Corrupted AutoCAD Drawing

by Mark | Jul 6, 2013 | Featured, Info Transfer, Power Tools, Quality Control

Many times you will receive an AutoCAD drawing file that is corrupted. Fortunately, cleaning a corrupted DWG file is usually easy.

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Organize Your CAD Sheets with Layout Grids

Organize Your CAD Sheets with Layout Grids

by Mark | Jun 23, 2013 | Basics---Better, Featured, Power Tools, Quality Control

Layout grids are a great way to organize your sheets in CAD. By using a layout grid, your sheets will look more professional and orderly, and you can prepare the drawings much more quickly.

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Consider the Reader of Your Drawing

by Mark | Oct 21, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Quality Control, The Human Side

Drawings are essentially a form of communication. A CAD professional should always be considerate of the person who will be reading his or her drawing, and make the drawing as legible as you can. Here are some general rules . . .

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Polylines are your friends

by Mark | Oct 7, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Power Tools, Quality Control

Polylines are your friends. If you make more use of them, and learn more of the tricks and features of using them, you will, I believe, come to appreciate their many advantages…

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Use Rays to speed up alignment tasks

by Mark | Jul 22, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Power Tools, Quality Control

Using the Ray tool in CAD to create or check alignments between views has many advantages over using normal lines. One is the speed with which you can create a large number of rays. Another is the ease of erasing the rays after you’re done . . .

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Use a system to simplify and speed up your work

Use a system to simplify and speed up your work

by Mark | Jul 1, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Power Tools, Quality Control

Repetitive CAD tasks can be carried out faster and more accurately if you have a system to apply to the work. What type of system works best? That depends on the task. Generally, a system works best when there are many similar or identical tasks that can be grouped together . . .

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Conquering CAD Clutter Using Big Round Numbers

by Mark | Jun 10, 2012 | Featured, Power Tools, Quality Control, The Human Side

A common cause of lost speed in CAD is being mired in a complex, high-density drawing with so many objects crammed into so little work space that it’s hard to maneuver. In this tip, I will focus on one highly effective technique that I developed. I call it: The power of big even numbers. Here’s how it works . . .

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