A customer asked today if AutoCAD 2013 is compatible with Windows 8. Guess what – offcially, it isn't! Here is the official list of compatible OS for each AutoCAD version: Operating system compatibility for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT We have run AutoCAD 2013 on Win 8 and have seen one or two funky things happen…

The AutoCAD variable LAYOUTREGENCTL controls REGEN between, er,  Layouts. There are three settings, 0, 1 and 2. AutoCAD help explains these options the best: Why even have a 0 (zero) option? Well, if your RAM is extremely limited, this keeps you from getting fatal errors due to the memory being overloaded. The best setting is…

This post was prompted by a call from a long time customer (Hi, Debbie!). I found the following on another blog and it sounded interesting enough to repeat here: From Ellen Finkelstein's AutoCAD blog (a very excellent one, by the way) "I want to make sure that you know about 3 really handy commands that…