Closed for Christmas

CAD Creations is now closed for Christmas

Office closes on 23rd for Christmas break

Office closes on 23rd December until January 4th.

Snow?

CAD Creations is working around the snow...!!!

Xmas closing times

CAD Creations office will be closed as from end of 23rd December & re-open again on 4th January

5000th page view..!!

CAD Creations new website reaches its 5000th page view


http://www.cadcreations.co.uk

Latest completed project

Latest Completed Project:

Lighting, Small Power & Fire Detection layouts for large 2 storey building in London.

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New pricing model on all Autodesk products as from March 2010.


See link for details:

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Open the latest AutoCAD 2010 drawings

For those of you who want to be able to read view & plot the latest version of AutoCAD drawings without the cost of upgrading your copy of AutoCAD, download Autodesk’s latest version of DWG TrueView. A free piece of software available for anyone to download.


Features:

• View DWG & DWF files including latest 2010 versions.

• Plot DWG & DWF files.

• Publish DWG files to DWF & PDF.

• Freeze & Thaw AutoCAD drawing layers.

• View in paper space or model space.
• Convert to older versions – back to release 2000.
• Take accurate distance and area measurements using the tools menu.


Click below to download (large file size & takes a while to install)


http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=6703438&siteID=123112

Latest completed project

Fire Detection Zone Chart

Latest completed projects

Fire Detection Zone Chart:

New Build Planning Application:

Space Planning Layout:

"IMAGEFRAME" command

After inserting an image into Autocad it has a frame around it so you can select it. If you want to turn this frame of tyoe the command "IMAGEFRAME" to set its visibility.

• Setting 0 - Image frames are NOT displayed & NOT plotted.
• Setting 1 - Image frames are BOTH displayed & plotted
• Setting 2 - Image frames are displayed but NOT plotted

Useful little tip as more & more images are being used within AutoCAD these days.

Website spruced up!

CAD Creations web site has been spruced up a little.

Check out - www.cadcreations.co.uk

New client on board

CAD Creations has picked up a new client, Thermoserv Ltd. A H&V company based in South Croydon & established since 1977.

CAD Creations on Facebook

CAD Creations is now on Facebook...!!!!

Upgrade with Autodesk Subscription before 12 March 2010 and save up to 50%*

Upgrade with Autodesk Subscription before 12 March 2010 and save up to 50%.

Unfortunately, after 12 March 2010, preferential upgrade pricing and software support will no longer be available for many 2007 Autodesk products.

Click HERE for details

AutoCAD Screencast 2010

Learn more about the powerful new capabilities of AutoCAD 2010. Watch as AutoCAD guru Heidi Hewett walks through new features, highlighting free-form design tools, parametric drawing, and many more new 2D and 3D CAD capabilities.

http://adskmedia.com/autocad_2010/

Experience Building - Autumn 2009 Edition

To view Autodesk's latest copy of its quaterly magazine 'Experience Building', click on the link below.

http://www.cabs-cad.com/eb/exb_autumn_09.pdf

Spare capacity

CAD Creations has some spare capacity at the moment. Please give us a call on 020 8916 2057 or visit the website http://www.cadcreations.co.uk/

Back to business

Office open again for business today. Only memories of the sunsets left to keep me going.

Summer Break

CAD Creations is now closed until the 1st October.

One more week

Please note you only have one more week to get your work requests in before our summer break on Friday 18th September.

22 Days and counting

22 days & counting until CAD Creations have been in business for 12 years - where did that time go?

Summer Break

CAD Creations will be on summer break as from end of Friday 18th September & open for business again on Thursday 1st October.

E-mails can still be answered if important...!!!

London to Brighton Bike Ride

I'm doing the London to Brighton Bike Ride this Sunday so if anyone can spare a few pennies you can sponsor me here:

http://www.justgiving.com/neiltodd2009

All for a good cause - The British Heart Foundation

CAD Creations now on Twitter

CAD Creations now on Twitter, not quite sure why yet but all may become clear in months to come...!!!

http://twitter.com/cadcreations

AutoCAD LT 2010 screencast

Check out the new features in AutoCAD LT 2010 by watching this Autodesk screencast.

http://www.adskmedia.com/autocad_lt_2010

New website goes live..!!

CAD Creations new website goes live today....

www.cadcreations.co.uk

New Plotters - website link

Plotterprice.co.uk

PDF output demo - AutoCAD 2010

PDF output demo - AutoCAD 2010

AutoCAD 2010 Block Constraints demo

AutoCAD 2010 Block Constraints demo

Geometric Constraints tutorial

Geometric Constraints overview - AutoCAD 2010 tutorial

PDF Underlay feature in AutoCAD 2010

PDF underlay tutorial in AutoCAD 2010.

London 2012 Construction News

Click here for all the up-to-date news on the 2012 construction site. Hopefully you've got a hand in it somewhere. Already had my first introduction via a small project at Olympic Office Centre Wembley through a client Winters Electrical Ltd.

2012 News

Construction News Budget 2009

Construction Industry Budget News:

Tax Crackdown on Self Employment

500m to kickstart housebuilding

Building Britain's Future

More AutoCAD Jobs

Another site for those of you looking for a job in AutoCAD

http://www.workgateways.com/Architecture.CAD+Technician.Jobs

Looking for a job using AutoCAD

If you're after a job using your AutoCAD skills why not try these people.

Workcircle

or alternatively

Total Jobs

Both have a reasonable selection of jobs on offer - good luck.

AutoCAD LT 2010 Upgrade

AutoCAD LT 2010 Upgrade on offer from www.cadservices.co.uk.

£470.00 (not including v.a.t.)

Optional 12-months subscription cover is available at extra £190.00 per licence against upgrades. This also provides online access to Autodesk subscription support center.

Website

AutoCAD LT on Facebook

Here is the link to the new AutoCAD LT group on Facebook to follow the introduction of AutoCAD LT 2010 released earlier this week.

AutoCAD 2010 released

It's Tuesday 24th March 2009 and today AutoCAD 2010 is officially released in certain countries across the globe.

So what's new? Lets take AutoCAD LT for instance.

• PDF Underlay Capability.



• Improved PDF Output.



• External Reference Commands.



• Block Attribute Commands.



• Align Objects.



• Improved User Interface Enhancements.



• New DWG file format.

I won't go into any detail now but may come back to these. The PDF underlay capability seems interesting and look forward to trying that out sometime soon. Your own experiences will be gratefully received.

http://www.autodesk.co.uk

France Holiday Rentals

Going slightly off the CAD theme, for those of you interested in holidaying in France this year (or any year come to that), some friends and I are compiling a website called http://www.france-holidayrentals.co.uk/. The aim is to provide a definitive guide to renting a holiday home in France and give a true picture of the different regions, departments and villages throughout France.

Pages are being added weekly but we would also like to hear from any of you out there on your experiences (good or bad) or your thoughts and ideas on France holiday rentals.

Please feel free to e-mail us on info@france-holidayrentals.co.uk or visit the site at http://www.france-holidayrentals.co.uk/.

Many thanks and happy holidaying.

Good Draughting Practice - Part Two

Just a quick follow up on part one regarding text on a drawing relating to 'leader' lines. Good practice would be to extend the arrow from the first line of text with a small line as follows:

Bad practice would be as the following two images:

Not forgetting and to be avoided at all costs - NEVER CROSS LEADER LINES.

Good draughting practice - Part One

Having come from a traditional drawing board background and trained in the 'art of draughtsmanship' I'm always surprised how poorly drawn most CAD drawings are I receive.

So I thought I would share my experience with you and hopefully help put the traditional draughtsman back into CAD.

Most of my comments on here will generally relate to construction/engineering style drawings

Part One: Text Heights

Notes on a drawing should be easy to read and traditionally all general notes were 'stenciled' at a height of 2.5mm, with headings or titles larger at 3.5mm or 5.0mm. Perhaps the only reason to vary from this would be lack of space in a particular area of the drawing so a height of 2mm could be used. Anything smaller than this will start to become difficult to read.

So for a typical CAD drawing with a scale of say 1:50 actual text heights in model space would be as follows:

2.0mm = 100mm
2.5mm = 125mm
3.5mm = 175mm
5.0mm = 250mm

Again good practice would be to assign a pen width increasing in size as follows:

2.5mm text height = 0.25mm pen width
3.5mm text height = 0.35mm pen width
5.0mm text height - 0.50mm pen width

Well that's part one over with. Any comments or your own suggestions for good draughting practice will be most welcome.

Autocad 2009 - How Much?

Well Autocad 2009 www.autodesk.co.uk is well and truly with us. Whether we like it or not at some point we're all going to have to upgrade somewhere along the way.



I'm always getting asked "how much is Autocad". Well if you want the full blown version you're going to have to fork out around £3000.00 for a new version. Unless you are into 3D in a big way generally you're not going to need the full version. I myself and most of the clients I deal with use all use Autocad LT (or lite). This version still contains way more functions and commands you'll ever be likely to use in general drawing projects (not alot of people know but you can still draw and view in 3 dimensions in this version).



A brand new copy of this will set you back around £1,100.00 with future upgrades costing around £550.00 each time. Alternatively you could go on the Autodesk subscription program for around £220.00 per year which will then cover all future upgrades.



If however, you only want to view and make a few minor changes to drawings, Autodesk also offer Autosketch 10. For around £220.00. This covers most of the basic (and some more advanced) functions of Autocad LT with the ability to read .dwg files with no problem. There are also a number of free dwg viewers out there. I can't comment on any in particular except you obviously won't be able to edit drawings only view them, this maybe ok for a temporary solution.



Where to buy? Well in the past you had to go to a dedicated reseller but now it's available almost everywhere, even your local P.C. World. I myself have used the online company Dabs http://www.dabs.com/ who's prices always seem most favourable. But if you want the back up and support maybe use someone like CADline http://www.cadline.co.uk/ who have been around for a few years now.



Lastly you could be really tight and do what seems to be happening more & more (in my office at least) send the drawings to someone and get them to print to pdf so everybody can view them easily...!!!

New website

Just a quick note to let you know the new CAD Creations website is now live. It's simplified but more colourful and pleasing to the eye...!!

It includes a new download section where you can view more samples of our work in pdf format. Alternatively go to the 'measured surveys' link and download a pdf showing some of the buildings we have surveyed and produced in CAD over the last couple of years.

http://www.cadcreations.co.uk/