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I just found Autodesk Impression 3 on the Autodesk Subscription Center for download by Autodesk Subscription customers.
Tom Kelly pointed out another excellent method to create the outline of a region in the comments to this post.
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In less than five minutes I imported the DWG and styled it in a colored pencil then changed my mind and in less than one minute changed to an overlapping marker style.Īutodesk Impression is a free download for many Autodesk Subscription customers.
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The best part is the rendering is vector based drawing and if I update the DWG file I can simply update the rendering in Impression instead of starting back from scratch in a raster editing program or using traditional pens, markers or watercolor. Below are the hand rendering styled images created with Autodesk Impression 3 in less than five minutes. To make the design nice and visually pleasing instead of just a collection of lines, I styled my design using Autodesk Impression. As Matt Murphy would say “ That’s Wicked Cool”.
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In a past popular blog post “ StarBacks BBQ Floor Space Planning with AutoCAD FIELDS” I showed how to show a hatch objects area and even use that area value for an AutoCAD or Excel table and calculations. I could also just keep the Hatch objects on a separate layer and even use AutoCAD Fields to display the square footage of my grass covered areas. This is much faster than other methods to create the new boundary layer. Now delete the Hatch object and you are left with a polyline boundary of the regions you hatched.
I then selected the option to “Recreate Boundary” then accepted the default option to create a Polyline and boundary not Reassociate the Hatch to the new boundary. I then double-clicked on the new Hatch which brings up the Hatch Edit dialog. What I did was hatched the 6 regions I wanted to create a boundary for using the AutoCAD command BHATCH. So in this image you see the 6 regions I want defined for a polyline on a separate layer, but the boundaries of these objects is not drawn yet. Below is a tutorial on how you can do the same trick and as a bonus showed my design styled in Autodesk Impression. Instead of copying and drawing outlines which could cause problems with the splines I used for the curved shapes, I used the trick of creating a new boundary polyline with a Hatch. When drawing a 2D layout drawing of my yard’s landscaping I was presented with the problem of duplicating the flowerbeds border with the grass regions. I was doing some planning work for a new pond in my backyard and thought I would share a cool AutoCAD tip. I am also working out a schedule for other events coming up including Autodesk University in Las Vegas which is only 88 days from now. Of course I am joking about the jumping part saving fuel. The warped/twisted theory is that if the plane has to only carry my load half of the trip it saves fuel. I will be jumping during most of the flights so that I can reduce my carbon footprint by half. See the Difference with AutoCAD 2010 TourĪutodesk Technical Evangelists Lynn Allen and Shaan HurleyĪ grand total of 14,023 domestic air miles which are equal in my book to 7 international miles for each domestic mile traveled. I will also be lining up some customer and user group visits while on the tour so contact me if you want to meetup. I will also be talking about Autodesk Impression and the AutoCAD Exchange as well as hopefully some really cool future possibilities.
I will be covering a potpourri of AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD based products AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, and AutoCAD MEP with my favorite tips and tricks. Please come visit with us for these free events. I will be presenting along with Autodesk’s own Lynn Allen and some fine Autodesk partners for a busy October schedule.