The AUGI CAD Camp was Great! (and an AutoCAD Hip Tip)

One of the things I enjoy most about the AUGI CAD Camps is that I get to sit in on classes as well!  I REALLY enjoyed dave espinosa-aguilar's (yes - he uses lower case) class on Fields today...I definitely need to spend more time exploring the amazingly powerful world of Fields in AutoCAD!  Today I did my "75 AutoCAD Tips in 75 Minutes" class - it definitely still needs a little fine-tuning before I hit Autodesk University.  US CAD and AUGI did a great job with this event - all very professionally done and the audience was fantastic!

So here is a quicky AutoCAD Hip Tip as the CAD Camp gang are wanting to go to dinner shortly...(and I'm hungry!)

An AutoCAD Hip Tip on Snapping to 3D Objects:

When using object snaps on 3D Objects, AutoCAD grabs the X, Y, and Z coordinate. Sometimes, we'd like AutoCAD to grab the X and Y coordinate of a point but use the current elevation for the Z. The system variable OSNAPZ lets you do exactly that! Set OSNAPZ to 1 and you'll find that your object snaps will replace the Z Value with the current elevation. Voila!

Aloha!