The Architect's Desktop

I came across this somewhat older article in the Autodesk ® Knowledge Network recently: Creating a New Tool Palettes Set . Written for Au...

There is an issue in AutoCAD ® with Object Snap Tracking when the Command: line is undocked and either Dynamic Input is disabled, or, if en...

Long-time users of Autodesk ® AutoCAD ® and Autodesk ® AutoCAD ® Architecture are likely familiar with the HIGHLIGHT system variable, wh...

Sometimes things "go south" and the program, or some part of it, stops working the way it is supposed to work. Trying to figure o...

I do not do a lot of rendering or visualization (changing to a non-orthographic view direction and setting the Visual Style to Shaded is abo...

Autodesk is starting up a series of webinars for users of their products; the first few will be of interest to AutoCAD ® and AutoCAD LT ® ...

If you have experienced the loss of the out-of-the-box tool palettes in AutoCAD ® Architecture 2015, finding them replaced with the AutoCAD...

While there can be many ways in which a 3D View can be "empty" - devoid of any visible elements - here is one that I had not thoug...

In case you have not seen this yet, a recent (July 2014) Microsoft Update, KB2962872, causes instability/crashes when using Internet Explore...

Here is a quick update on this post from three years back. The InfoCenter area and Balloon Notifications button remain on the System tab ...