paulf Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 One of my students using AutoCAD 2014 has got little boxes on his drawings as on the pic, what are they why and how do you get rid of them please? Quote
Dadgad Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) They indicate the presence of PARAMETRIC constraints. The icon with the cursor like crosshairs at the left end of the status bar controls their display, being on or off, and if right clicked their SETTINGS as well. In the screenshot it is shown blue, indicating that currently INFERRED CONSTRAINTS are activated, so they are automagically applied to the line work as it is drawn, pursuant to the SETTINGS defined in that right click menu, as shown in the screenshot. Edited April 15, 2015 by Dadgad Quote
nestly Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 ... and to get rid of them after they already exist, use the Delete Constraints button on the Ribbon Parametric Tab or DELCONSTRAINT from the command line. Quote
paulf Posted April 15, 2015 Author Posted April 15, 2015 Thanks, never seen this before and its thrown me, about as helpful as the group command... Quote
Dadgad Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 It might behoove you to download a free 30 day trial from Autodesk of a current release, as there are a few things which your students might encounter, or want to use, which were not available in Autocad 2009. That was the first version I used and trained on. I assume that your students will probably be on newer releases of the product, maybe even free 3 year student licenses of the latest versions of whatever they are interested in. If they aren't perhaps they should be, or at least informed of that totally free option available from Autodesk. Quote
paulf Posted April 15, 2015 Author Posted April 15, 2015 All of our level three students are given a lappie with full educational AutoCAD and Solidworks installed for them when they join the course and we use 2014. Autodesk apparently now will give educational establishments unlimited free licences for all of their software - they have offered that to us anyway. I have been using it since v12 and the last time I used it commercially it was 2010, so I am seeing a few little changes as we go Quote
Dadgad Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 One quite conspicuous addition since 2010, for my work, would be the VIEWBASE functionality which was first introduced in 2012, and I should think might be of interest. Glad you know about the free educational availability of the software. Pardon my asking, just curious, but as the software is freely available, is there a reason you choose to not use a newer release? There are certainly some who will see that as a rhetorical question, as new releases are so notoriously buggy, which may well be your reason. Quote
paulf Posted April 16, 2015 Author Posted April 16, 2015 Might ask the question, probably just IT or more than likley a money saving idea but at the moment we have 1500 licences and now they are free, I am sure it will be updated Not looked at Viewbase yet, might have a look, but its only really about one and a have BTEC units we teach CAD on anyway, so more of an introduction to the basics than anything in depth. Quote
Dadgad Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 Might ask the question, probably just IT or more than likley a money saving idea but at the moment we have 1500 licences and now they are free, I am sure it will be updated Not looked at Viewbase yet, might have a look, but its only really about one and a have BTEC units we teach CAD on anyway, so more of an introduction to the basics than anything in depth. 1500 licenses, damn that's a lot! Are they all for Autocad vanilla, or are some of them verticals and discipline specific? I should think that it would be to everyone's benefit to use the current, or at least more current software, lest when the students hit the job market or workplace they find others have an advantage, as they are more up to date. Free is a tough price to beat. The IT guys might not be too keen to do so many installations! Quote
paulf Posted April 17, 2015 Author Posted April 17, 2015 The installation is remote and automatic so is easy. Its just the standard full version, we dont have time to teach them anything else! (I would also have to learn to use them!!!!) Quote
Dadgad Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 (edited) Paul do yourself a favor, and give this a minute or two to whet your appetite, and or bring you up to speed, preferably before one of your students discovers it and asks you about it in class. Edited April 18, 2015 by Dadgad Quote
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