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Installing ACNE on Windows 7
There are two parts to the Windows 7 and ACNE tale – installation and running. The crux of the matter is that you need to install and run ACNE as a Windows XP compatible application, primarily because...
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ACNE and the case of the Missing Cable Numbers
OK, I’m staring at the drawing and I know all the blocks and attributes are right. I have run the drawing through ACNE more than once and I get the same result: some of the cables are missing from the...
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AutoCAD Find and Replace Wildcards are broken
Update in 2015 – it’s not a bug as such but a usability issue – as an aside the dot (period) wildcard matches any single non-alphanumeric character, similar to a question mark but much more...
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AutoCAD LT Missing Plot Styles
I dunno, perhaps AutoDesk are punishing you for buying the cheap version. Perhaps I am a bit too cynical about these things. That’s quite likely. You’ve just installed AutoCAD LT, opened your first...
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CADtools – the early years
I wrote this Attribute Generator to generate series of attributes, rather than copy … click … edit … copy …click … zzzz. As you can see I’m no UI expert. It ain’t pretty but it has saved me a lot of...
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ACNE Doesn’t Like Apostrophes
If you’re using ACNE then don’t use any apostrophes in your block attributes. They (apparently) mess up an internal query when it is parsing drawings which I am presuming results in lost data. If...
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ACNE doesn’t like A$ Blocks
Greetings. Long time no see read. I’ve been a little busy in the last couple of years, working on the things. Like most good intentions, the nearly-100 unpublished blog posts hidden in the caves of...
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tvCAD – a Replacement for ACNE
After much (years!) ado, here it comes… Before the end of 2015 I will be shipping tvCAD. Interested? Please drop into http://www.tvcad.tv/ and I will keep you in the loop on its progress. There’s an...
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Using ACNE with Excel 2007 or 2010
ACNE was originally developed to run in Windows XP and with versions of Excel that used the .XLS format (97 & 2003). Excel’s file format changed to the .XLSX format with the release of Office 2007...
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AutoCAD Layers are not Layers
Layers must be one of the most misnamed things in AutoCAD. The one thing that AutoCAD “Layers” don’t do is actually layer objects. This is controlled by the Draw Order commands. That’s what I mean when...
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