Text Table Import to AutoCAD
I have long bemoaned the absence of any support for tabulated text in AutoCAD, and so have many other people. It is a common need to place tables of textual information on drawings.
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Author: Geoffrey Harrod
Linux for CAD
Linux has made big headway in business, but so far almost entirely as a back-room network file-server serving workstations that run Windows. The main problem is that everyone wants to run the ‘industry-standard’ application programs that require Windows.
Read MoreTrueType in AutoCAD – Font Problems Revisited
Updating previous observations on using TrueType fonts in AutoCAD
Read MoreDEFPOINTS Layer
When you create dimensions in IntelliCAD or AutoCAD, the dimensioning components such as extension lines, arrowheads, dimension lines, and dimension text are placed on the on the current layer. The first time dimensions are added to a drawing, IntelliCAD 98 also creates a special layer named “DEFPOINTS”. This layer holds the “definition points” for the dimension. By default this layer does not and cannot be made to print.
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A Standard Word Processor Format at last! …Now how about for CAD?
With the wide interest in the OpenDWG Alliance and the work of the IAI and STEP, many users continue to bemoan the lack of adequate standards for text documents. Although the wide adoption of Microsoft Office has brought a degree of standardisation to document exchange in business, but it is a pseudo-standard rather akin to the ‘de-facto’ CAD standard being claimed for Autodesk’s proprietary DWG file format.
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