Project Butterfly

Checkout the latest innovation from Autodesk, made available thru Autodesk Labs.

Here is a quick overview from the Project Butterfly blog:

"Project Butterfly from Autodesk is a Web-based application that enables CAD editing without any installation or download of any kind. Apart from web access, Project Butterfly has features that accelerate the design process by allowing multiple users to work on the same drawing simultaneously or separately."

Project Butterfly Blog

Place a cell at true north in Microstation

Well I hope 2010 is going good for you, mine was until my beloved Cowboys got embarrassed by the Vikings (Favre, just retire already!), but now I can watch more Maverick games and this years NBA All Star game is just down the road at "Jerry World" this year!

But onto the real reason you read my blog, here is a quick tip for locating true north while placing a north arrow cell in your Microstation files. This trick comes in handy on rotated views as well!

To accomplish this place your north arrow cell just as you normally would but before you set the cell origin, type PLACE CELL ABSOLUTE TMATRIX in the key-in window!

Microstation Tip on Copying and Pasting elements

If you like copying and pasting elements from one file to another but also need them to be at the same location here is a tip.

Select your objects you want to copy, but don't click anywhere.
Tenative (left and right mouse click in XM) to a common point in your files, maybe the corner of a border.
Finally, just paste it into your desired file and snap to the common point you used!


p.s. You can accomplish this task in Autocad using the COPYBASE command.