SubscribeSince I've last blogged I spent a brief day in Paris (such a shame to only have one day in such a beautiful city) and am now in London. While in Paris I stayed at this great little hotel called the Hotel California (ironically) which wasn't expensive and yet it was located just two blocks from the Champs Elysees and quite close to the Arc de Triomphe.
I'm working away on my laptop in my room in London - the fire alarm keeps going off which I've chosen to ignore...so if you don't see a post in a few days it might be for good reason - poof!
Today I spoke at a birthday party for AutoCAD (yes AutoCAD!). The 21st release of AutoCAD will be out soon and my colleagues in London chose to throw a little soiree for a dozen journalists from the UK and Denmark. It was a grand time complete with balloons, poppers and cake (pictures to come at a later date). I did a presentation on the 21 releases of AutoCAD - along with a history of the early days of Autodesk and AutoCAD - it was good fun actually! For example...do you know how Autodesk got it's name? Do you know the original name for AutoCAD? Inquiring minds want to know! Much of my presentation was derived from a classic book that chronicles the early days of Autodesk called The Autodesk File. It's a pleasant and fascinating read if you have the time - it's even downloadable from John Walker's site.
So on to our Hip Tip!
AutoCAD Hip Tip to Increase (or decrease) the magnetic strength of object snaps:
As you get close to an object the various object snap grips appear. But just how close do you need to get? I've had a couple of readers write to me and ask to turn up their magnetic strength, if you will, so they don't have to get so darn close to the object. So here's your answer - change the setting of the system variable APERTURE. This setting controls how close (in pixels) to the object you need to get before the object snap grips appear. The minimum value is 1 (way too low) the maximum value is 50. Give it a whirl!