| You can add materials to objects in your drawings to provide a realistic effect. A material’s settings create its physical properties. The Materials tool palette in the Tool Palettes window provides a large number of materials already created for you. You use these material tools to apply materials to objects in a scene. You can also create and modify materials using the Materials window. The Materials window offers many settings to modify properties of the material. | |
To map a
material to an object start by using the LD Materials icon found under the visualization dropdown menu. The LD Materials tool will map a texture to the size of the object. This can be very useful when mapping doors, walls and floors. Adjusting the Materials 1) Under the dropdown menu Tools, open both Materials Browser and Editor. (Picture 1) 2) Click on the Materials to be edited. (Picture 2) 3) In the Materials Editor double click on texture image (picture 3) to open the Texture Editor. 4) Adjust the material scale in the Texture Editor. (Picture 4) |
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Freedom to Test Impact of Motion Behavior on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced that Autodesk ForceEffect Motion, a new mobile simulation app for developing and testing mechanical systems with moving parts (scissor lift, windshield wipers, automobile engine, robotics, etc.), is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. “Autodesk ForceEffect Motion brings engineering to the point of the design problem that engineers are trying to solve in the field, in the office or in the classroom”. Click here to keep reading
AutoCAD WS is one of the many new cloud services offered by Autodesk. It allows users to upload and share drawings with anyone around the globe. No need to send large email attachments or upload to FTP sites. AutoCAD WS works with the following devices: •iPhone & iPad •Mac •Android phones and tablets •AutoCAD (Plug-in) Have you ever gone out to the field with a stack of paper drawings and wondered if there was a better way to perform a walk-down? Click here to keep reading
If you are editing TEXT (not MTEXT), and the system variable TEXTED is set to 0 or 2, then you will be using the In-Place text editor. Although you can type in %%U to add underlining, there is no obvious way to remove it. I would guess most people would not even try the %%U since initially it shows up in the string while you are typing it in. Click her to keep reading
Starting with AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk has made the grid on by default. Do you turn it off every time you start AutoCAD? If you don’t know how to turn it off permanently, here are the steps: Click here to keep reading
If you are creating AutoCAD drawings which contain a lot of geometry, I highly recommend that you concentrate on keeping your geometry organised as you go along. Using Polylines, Groups, Blocks, Xref’s and Layers will really help you to create and edit your geometry in an efficient fashion. Click here to keep reading
I was one of those CAD geeks who did the loop around my small office when AutoCAD WS was released. It is a sophisticated mobility tool that Autodesk was savvy enough to release for free. Now available on the App Store for Apple devices and native Macs as well as the Android Market for Android devices, it gives a massive scope to CAD users and facilities managers alike. Click here to keep reading
When using the rotate command AutoCAD assumes that you always want to rotate something starting at 0 degrees. But sometimes the issue is you want to rotate something where the angle is not that, in fact without listing the line you might not know what that angle is in the first place. So instead of doing a bunch of picks and clicks to figure that out or doing some math to figure some of this out let’s put the “Auto” into AutoCAD. Click here to keep reading
When it comes to thinking about what should go in our workstations, we — both hardware suppliers and users— too often dwell on the glitzier technology inside, the “speeds and feeds.” How many CPU cores or GPU shaders there are, what frequencies they’re clocked at, and how many polygons/second or texels/second the GPU can churn through. Click here to keep reading
This series is comparing hard disk drives (HDD) versus solid state drives (SSD) for CAD workstation storage. Now there’s no one answer that fits all when it comes to choosing any piece of hardware, so let’s boil down all those distinguishing characteristics to yield some useful guidelines for outfitting your workstation’s disk storage. Click here to keep reading
Opening the chassis on any Boxx workstation is a diversion from the mundane, because Boxx designs anything but ordinary machines. The company knows that to compete with the big-volume boys, it must differentiate as much as possible. And once again, in the case of the 4920 Xtreme, Boxx takes some noteworthy slants on workstation design, most notably—but not limited to—its liquid-cooled CPU. - Click here to keep reading
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