Back to the Drawing Board...

Well I'm back to work and on the road again.  Today I enjoyed a huge crowd of nearly 400 in Long Beach, California (my old stomping grounds).  I grew up in Long Beach, even went to Long Beach Polytechnic High School...I can't believe how much it's changed (definitely for the better though).  The audience today came from as far north as Fresno and as far south as San Diego...what a great event.  We passed out my AutoCAD 2007 Tips and Tricks booklets and they even had a nice autograph line after my presentation (they were just trying to make me feel good of course).  Below you'll find some of those I paid to stand in line to get my autograph.  : )

Notice the stunned look on my face...

I'm off to the Disney CAD Camp tomorrow in Burbank with my good friends Shane, Patti and Tom...a day of education will no doubt be had by everyone (me as well).  I'm doing a couple of presentations on AutoCAD 2007...and here is a tip for you to end your week with!

Hip Tip to Square Off Corners:

I mentioned this tip today in my presentaion and had several people ask me about it (leading me to believe that not everyone is aware of it.  So let's say you have a "messy" corner that needs to be cleaned up like the example below.

You'd probably use the Fillet command with a 0 (zero) radius or use the Chamfer command with a distance of 0...right?  Well realizing that this is our chosen means of cleaning up corners, AutoCAD 2006 added a faster option for quicky cleanup.  Select one of the lines with the overhang, and then use the Shift key to select the second.  AutoCAD will automatically assume you intend to Fillet with a zero radius and will automatically square up your corner for you!  And the extra cool thing about doing it this way is that it doesn't reset your fillet radius back to zero! 

Command: FILLET
Current settings: Mode = TRIM, Radius = 0.0000
Select first object or [Undo/Polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple]:
Select second object or shift-select to apply corner:

Give this nifty time saver a try...and in closing I give you another puppy picture of Tiffany (who weighs a whopping 2.5 lbs now).