Morning All! I hope you’re having a great week and things aren’t too busy for you as we enter the fall season. Fall can typically be a bit of a crazy time of year in the AEC industry, lots of projects are in a rush to wrap up construction before […]
Category: Design
AutoCAD Scaling Tips & Best Practices!
Arguably one of the more confusing topics in AutoCAD to newer designers and those that learned prior to paper space/annotative text is scaling within AutoCAD. I can’t remember how many times I’ve been asked about setting up scales, fixing viewports, annotative text, what size to draw things in model space, and […]
Is VR the Future of Remote Work?
Have you spent much time in VR yet? Recently I’ve been trying out and testing different use cases for VR when it comes to remote work, engineering, design, and general day-to-day tasks. I feel like VR and AR are much more commonplace in the major tech sectors and still flying […]
4 Benefits of Moving to a Cloud Based CAD Software!
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 […]
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 […]
Plex-Earth 5D: Taking the guesswork out of civil design
Hey Everybody! I hope you’re all doing well and were able to enjoy some summer before this fall/winter weather started to set in, at least up here in BC, Canada… Today I wanted to share an update from our friends over at Plex-Earth! I’ve previously demoed their software as well as […]
DraftSight Tips, Tricks & Features to Speed up your Drafting! – An Affordable AutoCAD Alternative
Hey Everybody Brandon here back with the fourth and final installment of my series of videos/posts where we take a Look at the AutoCAD Alternative, DraftSight. In case you missed the previous posts, here is Episode #1 , here is Episode #2 & Episode #3 In this fourth installment, I wanted to focus on sharing some […]
Reading, Watching & Listening to Things #2 | Content for Designers | Engineers | Professionals
Hey Everybody, I hope you’re all doing well and have been able to enjoy this summer, especially given the strange and unique times this year has brought us! Today’s post marks entry #2 to my new Reading, Watching & Listening series where I recap and share some of my favourite […]
Behind the Scenes of a CAD INTENTIONS Tutorial: Vlog #1
Hey Everybody, I’m really excited about today’s post, it’s a bit different from the typical Tutorials but I think you’ll like it. For a while now I’ve been wanting to incorporate some Vlog style/Behind the Scenes type of videos on the channel. Partly as a way to share how the […]
AutoCAD How To: Custom Layer Properties for Specific Viewports using Overrides – 2 Minute Tuesday
Hey Everybody, I hope you had a great week and getting ready for an even better weekend. I know this one is a few days late but I wanted to get it up on the blog before the weekend and next week’s post. In today’s 2 Minute Tuesday x Tuesday […]