All Blog Posts Tagged 'blocks' (3)

MY PLAN: Since I myself cannot go to the Nerdfighters, throughout the day I will be doing Nerdfighterly tasks to show my love and appreciation of Hank and John Green. This will include; -Putting things on my head. -Happy dancing. -Drawing tetris blocks on things. -Wearing my self-made Nerdfighter Hands shirt. -Going by Helen Hunt for the day. -Documenting the whole thing with pictures/video. -Spreading the Word of Awesome :D Expect to see a video recapping my day. DFTBA!! (Man, you k… Continue

I've added my first-ever screen-capture video on our network, you can find it at G:/Shared/JohnDavis/Vlog Videos/1 refedit_vs_bedit.avi. In it I give a brief glimpse of the "Open Glazing Project"... an expansive duty of updating the details used in the EDL (Electronic Detail Library) focused on a more generic representation of glazed units within the standard detail blocks. I should mention that my observations concerning RefEdit vs. BEdit are only an early exploration of both commands, which ar… Continue

Working with AutoCAD "attributes" with the goal of not exploding blocks... Blocks are "updatable" (with the INSERT command) while the exploded resulting polylines and floating attribute definition disable this ability. BURST, an Express Tool, can be used to EXPLODE blocks with attributes. The attributes in the exploded block will take on the original attribute definition’s layer and color. Bursting may not replace exploding to gain access to the linework contained in a block but attributes wil… Continue