Shop Drawing Workflow

This chart outlines the standard paperless shop drawing workflow:

Enjoy!

Door of the Week: Barn

Hi this week you get the new barn door.

Enjoy!

New Pocket Door

There is a new Pocket Door on the Wolski Door toolbar.

This door works with the Door Trim and Extend commands but is designed only for 6" wall insertions.

Standard Notes Added To Wolski Palette

The Wolski standard notes can now be inserted from the Tool Palette! You will find them under the Notes tab:

The following improvements have been made:

• The blocks are inserted at 1:1 (in either metric or imperial) for easy paperspace placement.
• The blocks automatically explode after being inserted.
• The font substitution issue is now resolved when the Setup program is run.

Have fun!

Recoverall

Here is Cindy's tip of the week.

If you are working on a project and the drawings are slow to load a great tool to help is called RECOVERALL. What does it do?

Recoverall opens and recovers the selected file and all associated Xrefs and cleans up the integrity of the drawing . A great time to use this tool is when you start working on a pre-AutoCAD 2009 project.

Here is how it works:

1. Make sure that you are not in any of the files that you want to Recover.
2. Type RECOVERALL at the command line (or from the File pulldown -> Drawing Utilities > Recover drawings and xrefs).
3. Select the Wolski (non-xref) drawing that you want to Recover.
4. Repeat on other Wolski drawings.

Give it a try!

Take You to My Multileaders

You might have noticed the new Multileader toolbars in the Wolski CAD system. These multileaders have several advantages including the ability to easily add and remove leaders and include blocks (ie keynote block).

Here is a description of what each tool does:

First of all you might have to load the Mleaders with the tool indicated above. Give the Text and Keynote Mleaders a try.

More information in future posts.

Freeze Layers in Door Blocks and Xrefs

Here's this weeks tip from Cindy. Have you ever been frustrated by trying to freeze a layer within the new door blocks or an Xref.

Here is a great tip on using the new Deep Freeze tool. It is on the new Layer toolbar.

Use this tool when you need to freeze a nested layer within a block or Xref. The standard Freeze command right next door.

Later.