This past year has seen a lot of change in the way we work as designers. Some of us have transitioned to fully remote positions like myself, while many are working on a hybrid Office/Home schedule and even fewer it seems, have returned to the office full time. Regardless of […]
Category: Best CAD Gear
Best Mouse For CAD (2022 Edition) – AutoCAD & Design Gear Guide
I’m excited to kick off this year’s AutoCAD/Design Gear Guide with my picks for the Best Mouse for CAD! Every year or two I like to do a series of roundup posts highlighting and sharing some of my favorite tools and hardware for AutoCAD and Design in general. Today we […]
DraftSight How To Load & Work w/ LISP Files, Images, & DGNs: Looking at the AutoCAD Alternative
Hey Everybody! Brandon here back with the second installment of my series of videos/posts where we take a Look at the AutoCAD Alternative, DraftSight. In case you missed it, here is Episode #1 Today’s post is a great one to dive deeper into how DraftSight operates, some similarities and testing […]
The best Mouse for AutoCAD – My favourites for 2020
Hey Everybody, I hope you’re all doing well and off to a productive week so far! I realized it had been a while since I’ve updated my favorite AutoCAD mouse list here on the blog or even on the youtube channel and thought today would be perfect for a quick update […]
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga: The Perfect Portable Laptop for Engineers & Designers – Coffee Break Ep#1
Hey Everybody, Brandon here and I’m really excited because today’s post and video are the first in a new series I’ll be doing on the Blog and Channel called Coffee Break! In each Episode (post) I’ll be unboxing and reviewing a product, gadget, etc.. from the perspective of a designer/engineer […]
3D Scan Objects, People and places for free with your Phone – 123D Catch Tutorial
Hey Everybody, Brandon here and in todays post I just wanted to show you all a cool app from AutoDesk that I’ve been playing with lately. It’s called 123D Catch and it’s a free app that will let you scan and create a 3d Capture of almost any object. You […]
The Rise of Digital Drafting Tables: Microsoft Surface Studio & Dell Canvas
The Future of Drafting & Design It’s starting to look like 2017 could be the year where technology will finally catch up to what I’ve always dreamed of when I thought of drafting and design in the Future. Since I can remember I’ve wanted to have a “Digital Drafting Table” […]
Best Workstation for AutoCAD & Engineering in 2017? – Custom @Xi Computer Workstation
Hey Everybody! First of all, Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday and enjoyed some time away from work with family, I know I did and I’m feeling good and refreshed. Today’s post is a cool one, a little bit of back story quickly. A month or […]
The new HP ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation: Review and Unbox
Brandon here and I’m back with a slightly different post today. I was recently sent a mobile workstation from HP to test out/play with and this post will be my review and thoughts on it, the HP ZBook 15 G3 Mobile Workstation which is a bit of a long name […]
What is the Best AutoCAD Mouse? – A CAD Gear Guide 2016
UPDATE: I’ve just posted a new and updated list of my Top Mouse Picks for AutoCAD in 2020. Check out the new article here and let me know what you think in the comments: http://cadintentions.com/the-best-mouse-for-autocad-my-favourites-for-2020/ In todays post I am kicking off my 2016 gear guides for CAD designers and drafters. […]