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Create Custom AutoCAD Commands and Toolbars

From the Trenches: Looking for an easier way to access your custom LISP routines? This user-written tutorial will walk you through the toolbar creation process. Have you ever needed to create your own toolbar or command in AutoCAD? Maybe you have some custom LISP routines you been using for years, and you need to add them to your current version of AutoCAD. Sometimes a toolbar may be an easier way to get to those custom routines ...

Learning 3D Is No Cakewalk — and I Can Prove It

CAD Manager's Toolbox: It's easy to speculate about how long it will take users to transition from 2D to 3D, but how can you be sure? A few months ago I had a chance to speak with a group of senior managers who theorized that it would be easy for their CAD department to go to 3D mechanical CAD. They reasoned that learning curves would be short and everyone could get up to speed quickly because the software was so easy to use — after all, that's what the product literature said. They also reasoned that almost all the...