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What’s New at Cadalyst.com Get this month’s Web-exclusive content at September 2008 www.cadalyst.com/currentissue ArchiCAD Insights 1-2-3 Revit On the Edge Solid Thinking AutoCAD Tutorials Circles and Lines By Lynn Allen AEC Tutorials AutoLISP Solutions By Tony Hotchkiss ArchiCAD Insights By Eric Bobrow Check out some random AutoCAD tips that can add up to savings in time and effort. Convert your Q-leaders to M-leaders. Bug Watch By Steve Johnson Learning Curve By Bill Fane ArchiCAD’s Quick Layers palette gives you control of your drawing’s layers. More options for maximizing the AutoCAD– Excel spreadsheet connection. New and improved AutoCAD 2009 — twice! But is it enough? 1-2-3 Revit By Rick Rundell AEC Tutorials Alibre Design Tips By Max Freeman Solid Thinking By Richard Doyle The Autodesk Green Building Studio plug-in can help architects transform designs from carbonpositive to carbon-neutral. Use imported data sets as the basis for complex features. 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Cadalyst - September 2008 Contents Editor's Window Cad Central Tech Trends: Genie Out of the Bottle Cadalyst Labs Reviews: Big Tools for Big Jobs — Wide-Format Scanners and Printers Make Small Work of Large Projects Cadalyst Labs Reviews: AutoCAD 2009 — General-Purpose CAD Software Cadalyst Labs Reviews: AecBatchStylesEditor 2009 — CAD Standards Management Software for AEC Cad manager: Synchronize CAD Files over a Wide Area MCAD Modeling: Is 2D Drawing Doomed? Plm Strategies: More Bang for Your Truck Aec Insight: Works and Plays Well with Others Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Hot Tip Harry: VBA Hints for Customizing AutoCAD

Cadalyst - September 2008

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