AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2013 - System Requirements

If you are looking to run AutoCAD Structural Detailing you might want to see what spec of machine you will need. Below is the standard spec Autodesk recommend you have to run ASD on a 32bit and 64bit machine.

For 32-Bit AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2013

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional or Home Premium edition, Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP2) Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later)
• For Windows Vista and Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
• For Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
• 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 6 GB free disk space for default install, 6 GB hard disk space available after installation
• Video card 1,280 x 1,024 true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• DVD drive (for installation only)

For 64-Bit AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2013

• Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition or Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium edition (SP2 or later)
• AMD Athlon™ 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 6 GB free disk space for default install, 6 GB hard disk space available after installation
• Video card 1,280 x 1,024 true color
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• DVD drive (for installation only)

Please note information has been taken from Autodesk website for more details see the following link.

AutoCAD Structural Detailing

AutoCAD Civil 3D - UK & Ireland Country Kit

Now that AutoCAD Civil 3D has been out for a week or two and I am sure that some of you have already installed it and trying out all the new features.

As each country has its own country kit its key when you install AutoCAD Civil 2013 you install the correct UKIE content, but not to worry if you haven’t you can still go back and add it in later. 

Autodesk’s Jack Strongitharm has put a link to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 UK & Ireland Country Kit and also some short videos on What is a Country Kit


Here is a link to Jack's Blog From The Ground Up
 

AutoCAD Cursor Problems

Are you experience that the cursor in AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® Map 3D® or AutoCAD® Civil 3D® is slow or jerky?

I came across some solutions posted on the AutoCAD Service & Support page, click on the following link for more information: Cursor Slow or Jerky

General Notes Using Schedules in Revit

Check out how to create General Notes Using Schedules in Revit.

Click Here

Twitter in AutoCAD

 ACADtweet

Ok so if you are using AutoCAD and also use Twitter. Then why not do both through AutoCAD its self? 

On the Autodesk Exchange you can now download a App which will allow you to send and read Twitter messages directly from the AutoCAD command line.

To find out a more and download the app click here.

Change Text Style Script - AutoCAD

He is how to create a script to change the text style in AutoCAD.

1. Open Notepad
2. So the Text styles dialog box does open you will need to type -STYLE into the command line.
3. Now following the command line:  

Enter name of text style or [?] <Annotative>: (ENTER THE TEXT STYLE NAME HERE) Standard

Specify full font name or font filename (TTF or SHX) <romans.shx>: (ENTER THE FONT NAME HERE) Arial
Specify height of text or [Annotative] <0.0000>: (ENTER THE TEXT HEIGHT HERE) 2.5
Specify width factor <0.5000>: (ENTER THE TEXT WIDTH FACTOR HERE) 1

Specify obliquing angle <0>: (ENTER THE TEXT STYLE NAME HERE) 0
Display text backwards? [Yes/No] <No>: (ENTER YES OR NO TO DISPLAY TEXT BACKWARDS HERE) n
Display text upside-down? [Yes/No] <No>: (ENTER  YES OR NO TO DISPLAY TEXT UPSIDE-DOWN HERE) n
Press F2 in AutoCAD so the Text Window opens, select and copy of the text into Notepad. So it should read as follows:


-STYLE
Standard
Arial
0
1
0
n
n

Note: If you add a few enters after the last n you will see it will start the command again, so just watch your enters.
Now hit save as and name your script i.e Style_Text.scr.  Note to run it as a script you must put .scr at the end.


To run the script in AutoCAD now type SCR into the command line, go the location where you saved the script select it and click Open. It should now change your Text Style to "Standard" as current.

AutoCAD - Rotate on Paste

This is a tip I came across a good few years ago but still a good one.

Did you know that when you copy a objects by base point in AutoCAD then paste it back in you can type 'R' (rotate) and it will ask you to rotate the object on insertion.

• Copy object by base point Ctrl+Shift+C
• Now look at the command line it will "Specify insertion point:" type R.
• You will then be asked to "Specify rotation angle <0>:".
• Now all you need to do is place the object and it will be rotated on placement.