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You are invited to join our series of free Webinars. These are technical discussions hosted by the Autodesk Product Support team and brought to you by Subscription Services. The basic format is a 20 - 40 min period of in-depth topic discussion with questions fielded during the presentation, where the remainder of the hour is an open question & answer period covering any topics of interest by the audience. Please note that this is a webinar series, and after signing up you will be notified of all future Build Your AutoCAD IQ events.

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Are you ready for Design Led Revolution?!?

Let’s deliver more to humanity and take less from the planet! How will you design a better future?

Watch the short video below!!

http://autode.sk/1z2HDLC

#designledrev

 

Warning for AutoCAD for MAC users about upgrading to the new MAC OSX Yosemite

Please be cautious if you are intending to upgrade to the new MAC OS and are using AutoCAD for MAC. AutoCAD for Mac 2015 is compatible with Mac OSX Yosemite (10.10). AutoCAD for Mac versions 2014 and earlier currently are not compatible with Mac OSX Yosemite (10.10). These versions may launch, but will not operate properly and damage to your project data could occur.

Please take a look at the link below for further information.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-for-mac/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Mac-OSX-10-10-Yosemite-compatibility-with-AutoCAD-LT.html

AutoCAD Hangout Session Webinar Recordings

Good Day Everyone!

If you attended or missed the AutoCAD Hangout Session Webinars, the recordings have been posted.

Introduction to DesignCenter (part 1 of 2)
Introduction to DesignCenter (part 2 of 2)
Building Blocks: Creating your own reusable content (part 1 of 2)
Building Blocks: Creating your own reusable content (part 2 of 2)
Precision Drafting: Object Snaps and Object Tracking

 

AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT Hangouts - Join Us!

I'd like to invite you to join us for our next AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT Hangout Session. This week we will cover the fundamentals of working with blocks! If you have been using blocks but only have a minor understanding of defining a block or you wish to just wish to learn more, then join us! For more information check out

AutoCAD LT Webinar: Building Blocks: Creating your own reusable content

 

Autodesk Webinar Series

You're invited! Please join us for the Autodesk® AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Webinar: ‘Precision Drafting: Object Snaps and Object Tracking’

Date & Time: July 31 2014 @ 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT

For more information visit Precision Drafting: Object Snaps and Object Tracking

Linetypes won't display for Hatch

Are you noticing that in AutoCAD 2015, the linetypes that you have set on your hatch are showing as continuous? If this is the case, you may need to change the HPLINETYPE variable. By default, this variable is off to save on system resources. But one of the side effects of it being off is that hatch linetypes will not be displayed. Turn the HPLINETYPE variable to 1, and all should show correctly again.

AutoCAD for the Mac and Retina displays

When running AutoCAD for Mac 2013 or earlier as well as AutoCAD for Windows in a virtual machine on the high resolution retina display, the display may not appear as expected.

AutoCAD for Mac 2014 has added support for Retina Display. On Windows side, we are actively researching solutions not only for Virtual Machines on Mac, but also for newly exposed DPI options in Windows 8.1.

In the meantime if you are using a virtual machine i.e., Parallels desktop to run AutoCAD for Windows you may want to try the following solution to see if it helps:

1. Shut down your virtual machine
2. Go to Virtual machine menu > Configure... > Hardware > Video > uncheck Enable Retina display

See also a related solution from Parallels http://kb.parallels.com/en/114700.

Lasso selection tool in AutoCAD 2015

Check out the video below which shows how to use the new Lasso selection tool in AutoCAD 2015:

https://chronicle.autodesk.com/main/details/9f89ced2-6c02-4e76-a61e-3e09f2cc0a82

Educational Plot Stamp removal - UPDATE

Please take a look at the link below as there are updates to the EDU plot stamp issue with 2014 SP1 and also 2015. This should prove useful to anyone with files that contain the stamp.

EDU Plot Stamp