In the 2020 version of AutoCAD you may have noticed that the PURGE command has had a bit of a spruce up. The new window allows you to view the purgeable and non-purgeable items within the drawings and lets you select the item you want to purge using the check boxes next to the items. …
In the 2020 version of AutoCAD you may have noticed a new command ‘BLOCKSPALETTE’. This command opens up a brand new window which gives you a new way of finding and inserting blocks, the Blocks Palette. This new palette is similar to the Tool Palette in some ways but it gives you the ability to …
This blog describes in detail some best practices and tools for working from home effectively and productively. Working from home can be a struggle for most, however, this situation we are facing as a civilization may require us and push us to do it more and more moving forwards. At Man and Machine, we have …
AutoCAD Electrical 2021 is out and ready to download and install now. Let’s take a look at some of the new features. The new features for this release are predominantly enhancements that were requested by and driven from customer feedback, the Autodesk IdeaStation, surveys and analytic data. Other additions are general feature improvements and increased …
Is it possible to map a cell in Excel to a document property? Many people want to be able to utilize the data in their documents or CAD files to populate their document/file properties and thus map this data to their document management system. Excel spreadsheets often have lots of data in them which relate …
AutoCAD 2021 has been released and is ready for you to download and get working. AutoCAD has recently introduced state-of-art web and mobile tools so that you can access, review and edit your drawings wherever you are on the road, in the office or at home. Google Drive Integration To add to the mobile functionality …
How do you create custom reports in the Plant 3D Data Manager? If you have been using Plant 3D you would probably have noticed the data manager, which contains all the meta data of your Plant 3D project. It’s a very powerful tool which enables you to analyse, search and even edit the data quickly …
Issue You want to create multiple layer state ‘themes’ that have different properties from the default layer properties, you want to be able to revert backward to the default properties and return to the custom themed properties quickly with one click. Solution It is possible, using the layer states manager, to create multiple layer states …