Ispent a couple hours modifying an existing AutoCAD LT for Mac dwg but had to Force Quit when a hatch command caused the program to freeze. When I went to find the backup or saved dwg file, the only one listed is from 6 days ago. Why doesn't AutoSave do what its name implies?? Two hours of tedious work down the drain.
The first thing we should check is where you are looking for the recovery DWG file. Fusion recovery files can be found in the locations at this link. If you are looking for a recovery DWG file in Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder, you will not find it - you will only see the original DWG file. After a DWG file is uploaded to the Data Panel in Fusion 360, it is translated to F3D (Fusion native) format. You will not find a recovery DWG file - this is because Fusion 360 does not keep the file in DWG format.
There are some safeguards in place. When an auto-save is canceled due to option 1 & 2 above, it will continue to attempt to auto-save on a 1 minute interval once the user finishes the current command. If too many failures happen in a row, a forced auto-save will happen as soon as the operation is finished. However, this does requires a state of quiescence to successfully complete the save.
I should have mentioned that I disabled iCloud due to it causing many issues with the Mac AutoCAD Lt software. So now I'm assuming that by doing this I also disabled the AutoSave function? I don't use Fusion360, as it requires access to the cloud. Am I correct in saying this?
Thanks for the response - I notice now that you mentioned this in the initial post, but I did not notice you are working with AutoCAD LT. I am not an AutoCAD expert and will transfer this post over to their forum board. Some of our experts over there should be able to help out.
I am sorry the AutoSAVE did not save your file in this instance. I do not recommend setting it more frequently than the default as this can actually cause more problems by too frequently accessing your hard drive. In my opinion, there is no substitute for a manual Save. An autosave is intended to provide an opportunity to recover data in case of a crash. It might not always work though depending on the status of the crash, when the last autosave was performed, if it has inadvertently been turned off, etc.
I have an unusual part that I'm having trouble dimensioning. Nothing in the part is aligned to the origin so when I go to pull dimensions it's trying to pull those oblique-style dimensions as if it were an iso view.
I made a video showing the issue, since it's kinda hard to describe. You can see when I use the dimension tool and click on two lines you would expect an angular dimension, but instead it gives me a strange oblique dimension as if I were pulling it from an isometric view.
So what's causing this? I'm assuming it's either because the part is not aligned to the origin or because I'm using a custom view orientation, or maybe a combination of the two. Is there any way to force an angular dimensions instead of those weird oblique dimensions? Is my workaround the only way to do this?
Yes, that is the cause of your issue. You can realign the part, relative to the origin, by editing the sketch coordinate system (Right-click on the sketch in the browser, select "edit coordinate system", then follow the prompts in the lower right corner of you application window). That will probably fix it.
If you create a polyline in AutoCAD and check quickproperties it is indeed a polyline.If you now keep the begin and end vertex and remove all in between and check quick properties, autocad still says it is a polyline. Afaik, you cannot (over)write the autocad parameter to do so. I would argue that to call a line a polyline would be like realizing that you can identify a square as a heavily stroked circle. (even if it brakes some circle rules)
Please create an attribute on the output features named autocad_original_entity_type, and set it to autocad_polyline. This will force the output to be a polyline, regardless of the number of vertices.
Coming from AutoCAD I could create a table in a drawing and input numbers into it. If the number was anything greater than 999 then AutoCAD would automatically add the necessary comma at the thousands or millions place. I have searched high and low in all of the help forums and cannot figure out how to force this behavior in table in BricsCad
I had a deeper look and found this but there must be though a over riding top level setting. It will be part of the table dictionary, I just looked at a table. It is feasible to update all the cells via a lisp.
Using a text file (.TAB) with the list of commands and layers, you can force AutoCAD to e.g. place all texts to the layer "ANNOTATIONS", place all hatches to the layer "HATCHING" and dimensions to the "DIMS" layers with predefined layer colours. You can also set block names which should be inserted to predefined layers - e.g. all Chair* and Table* blocks to the Furniture layer.
Computer-aided designers create, alter, analyze and optimize designs to help make the concepts of engineers and architects a reality. The buildings, cars and roads we take for granted daily all started as ideas. Successfully going from concept to reality requires drawings with technical details, commonly called blueprints, which is the responsibility of drafters.
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SWIC Computer Aided Design instructors are experts in the field. Under their guidance and instruction, you work toward a certificate and/or an Associate in Applied Science Degree. You will also prepare for the national certification exam.
You will be prepared to work in a range of drafting fields including manufacturing, architectural, civil engineering, Electrical & Instrumentation, pipe, structural and surveying. Companies and agencies, such as Anheuser-Busch, GE-Power, Monsanto, Sverdrup Corporation, Illinois Department of Transportation and Ameren, employ graduates of the SWIC program.
Your coursework will prepare you to pass the American Design Drafting Association Certified Drafter exam. This national certification enhances credibility as a professional and gives a competitive edge in the workforce.
SWIC Computer Aided Design instructors are experts in the field. Under their guidance and instruction, you work toward a certificate and/or an Associate in Applied Science Degree. You will also prepare for the national certification exam.
Its use in designing electronic systems is known as electronic design automation (EDA). In mechanical design it is known as mechanical design automation (MDA), which includes the process of creating a technical drawing with the use of computer software.[3]
CAD software for mechanical design uses either vector-based graphics to depict the objects of traditional drafting, or may also produce raster graphics showing the overall appearance of designed objects. However, it involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, the output of CAD must convey information, such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions.
CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in many applications, including automotive, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries, industrial and architectural design (building information modeling), prosthetics, and many more. CAD is also widely used to produce computer animation for special effects in movies, advertising and technical manuals, often called DCC digital content creation. The modern ubiquity and power of computers means that even perfume bottles and shampoo dispensers are designed using techniques unheard of by engineers of the 1960s. Because of its enormous economic importance, CAD has been a major driving force for research in computational geometry, computer graphics (both hardware and software), and discrete differential geometry.[6]
CAD is one part of the whole digital product development (DPD) activity within the product lifecycle management (PLM) processes, and as such is used together with other tools, which are either integrated modules or stand-alone products, such as:
CAD is also used for the accurate creation of photo simulations that are often required in the preparation of environmental impact reports, in which computer-aided designs of intended buildings are superimposed into photographs of existing environments to represent what that locale will be like, where the proposed facilities are allowed to be built. Potential blockage of view corridors and shadow studies are also frequently analyzed through the use of CAD.[8]
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