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| SX79DDS | ||
| CAD Program installed | With or without installed LD Assistant Ac 12 v3 or LD Assistant Ac 12 v3 Upgrade | |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | Microsoft Windows® 7 64 bit | |
| PROCESSOR | Intel 2nd Generation Core i7 socket 2011 CPU ( i7-3820, 3930K or 3960X ) | |
| MEMORY | 32GB - DDR3 1600 | |
| DRIVE BAY 1 | SSD 240G - Read Up to 555 MB/s - Write Up to 525 MB/s | |
| DRIVE BAY 2 | HD 2T - SATA 3.0Gb/s - Cache 32MB | |
| OPTICAL DRIVE | DVD BURN SONY OPTIARC | |
| GRAPHICS | NVIDIA® Quadro® Q2000 Professional Graphics | |
| CHIPSET | Intel® X79 Express Chipset | |
| AUDIO | Realtek ALC888S - 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio | |
| NETWORK | (2) Realtek RTL 8111E, 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s, 1Gb/s Operation, Support Wake-On-LAN (WOL) function | |
| FRONT PANEL | (2) USB 3.0 Ports,
(1) USB 2.0 Port with Mobile Device Charger Feature, (1) USB 2.0 Port,
(1) Microphone-In (1) Headphone-Out, Power Button, Power Indicator (Blue LED), Hard Drive/Optical Drive Indicator (Yellow LED) |
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| BACK PANEL | (2) USB 3.0 Ports,
(6) USB 2.0 Ports,
(1) Line-In Port, (1) Line-Out Port,
(1) Side Surround Jack,
(1) Rear Surround Jack,
(1) Center Bass Jack,
(2) Gigabit LAN Port (RJ45),
(1) CMOS Clear Button,
(1) eSATA Port (1) eSATA Power Connector, (3) Wireless Port Perforation eSATA Port |
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| EXPANSION | (2) PCI-E x16 Slot, (1) Mini PCI-E Socket (Long), Supports mSATA , (1) Mini PCI-E Socket (Short) | |
| POWER | 500W 80 Plus, Input:100-240V AC | |
| DIMENSIONS | Height: 7.8" inches, Width: 8.5" inches, Depth: 13.1" inches | |
| WEIGHT | 7.7 lbs. (Actual weight may vary depend on systems configurations) | |
| WARRANTY | 3 Year Limited Hardware Warranty | |
Autodesk presented a webinar to review the new version of AutoCAD WS 1.4 that is now available for download. If you are not aware of it, AutoCAD WS is a free web and mobile application for viewing and editing DWG files stored in the cloud. The "cloud" in this sense generally refers to storage space allocated to the user by Autodesk, but it was reminded to us that the "cloud" can mean other things such as SharePoint, Buzzsaw, and even your own servers, with the proper setup. It was even hinted that we might see some object enablers appear soon for WS. Click here to keep reading
Create Objects, Modify Objects, Text & Dimensions, Blocks & Xrefs, Collaboration Tools, User Interface, Customization and Sheet Set Manager. Click here to view tutorials
Five years ago, if you’d said we’ll soon be able to print 3D models directly from pictures captured with a camera phone - and all for less than the cost of a half dodgy French breast implant - you would have been called a witch and burned, along with the nearest cat. But with a wave of new consumer 3D printers and a new photo capture technology from Autodesk, this is now possible. - There has been a quiet revolution in low-cost 3D printing for some years now. With the introduction of extrusion 3D printers such as the RepRap, an open source, low-cost 3D printer (approx $520), suddenly rapid prototyping started to be become very affordable. -Click here to keep reading
There are many questions and confusion about customizing AutoCAD with CUI. It’s supposed to be simpler and easier than the old mnu or mns file. I never use the old way, but I believe yes, it’s easier to do it graphically like this. So let’s discuss about customize user interface (or CUI). In this first article, we will discus about accessing the dialog and preparing our own CUI that we will use later. You can open the dialog by clicking the button in manage tab>customization>user interface. Click here to keep reading
In previous tutorial, we explore the CUI dialog interface and create our own customization file. Let’s go further.
Let’s see what we will do:
1.We will use our own cui file. So create it first before you follow this tutorial. We did it on the last tutorial.
2.We will create custom commands. Later, we will combine them with existing AutoCAD command to our panel.
3.We will create a panel and a ribbon tab.
4.We will define in which workspace the panel should appear.
Change your active customization file
In your CUI dialog, select your custom CUI you created before. If you miss the first step, you can check it in this first tutorial. I named it CAD-NOTES, but you may use your own name. Click her to keep reading
We covered how you can create your own AutoCAD customization file and add your own commands, panel and ribbon tab there. In this article, we will cover more details about arranging our tools in a panel and tab by working with their properties. How to make our panel looks as we expected. We will add several more commands there, custom and AutoCAD default commands. If you haven’t got any custom command, you can follow our previous tutorial or just continue with default commands. Adding custom commands I created several commands from Paul Munford’s macro like below. You can refer to those macros or create your own if necessary.Click here to keep reading
In the last tutorial, we learned how to place commands to ribbon. But we know that ribbon is not everyone’s favorite. What if you want to add the commands to toolbar? What if you want to add commands to menu? Let’s see how we can do it here.
Working with toolbar
Working with toolbar should be easier. It has fewer properties than ribbon.
First, let’s open our CUI dialog box. Remember to activate customization file to yours (mine is cad-notes, yours might be different).
Creating new toolbar
Now we work on our own customization file. Try to click the + sign on the left of toolbars category. You should see there is no item below it yet. Our customization file is empty, remember? Click here to keep reading
We have 4 articles already about working with CUI. Many people think that CUI is only about creating custom commands, creating your own ribbon tab/panel or your own toolbar and menu. There are more things you can do with CUI, and actually quite cool.
1. Rollover Tooltips and Quick Properties
Rollover tooltips and quick properties both give you quick information of your object. Rollover tooltips will appear when you hover your mouse above an object. Quick properties is a palette that will open when you double click an object. Or you can set it to open automatically when you select object.
If you only want to see object’s properties, rollover tooltip would be a logical choice. But if you don’t like to wait until it appears, you can just choose quick properties. But the real difference is, you can edit the properties in quick properties but not in rollover tooltip.
Let’s say you are a surveyor. You would like to get information of an object quickly, like what is the object, its length and its area. You can just hover your mouse above it, and don’t have to inquiry its length and area! Isn’t that cool? Click here to keep reading
Requirements for 2D Drafting • Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or later) • For Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology • For Windows XP: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology • 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) • 6 GB free disk space for installation • 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color (1,600 x 1,050 with true color recommended) • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later web browser.
Requirements for 3D Modeling • Pentium 4 or Athlon processor, 3 GHz or greater or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater • 4 GB RAM or more • 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 256 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, OpenGL, Microsoft® Direct3D®-capable workstation-class graphics card.
Standard Rendering Requirements • 4 to 6 GB RAM
High-End Rendering Requirements • Depending on the size of drawing from 6 to 12 GB RAM may be needed.