What Is Plasma?Image source: ResearchGate.net”Plasma” has different meanings in medical and industrial contexts. The industrial context being relevant to plasma torches, it is what we will discuss here. When the atoms of a gas are subjected to high energy, such as a strong electromagnetic field, electrons can cut loose from the atoms and move around freely….
OverviewThis is the third in our series of posts discussing new features in AutoCAD 2021. Our earlier posts in the series are: AutoCAD 2021: the Drawing History Palette New in AutoCAD 2021: Xref Compare There’s nothing new about the Block Palette per se, since it already exists in AutoCAD 2020. What AutoCAD 2021 has done is to enhance…
This is the second article in our series about new features in AutoCAD 2021, and is about how the platform streamlines tracking changes in DWG xref files. As in the case of the compare function in the Drawing History palette described in our earlier article, when you open a host drawing, AutoCAD 2021 immediately tells you…
Among the AutoCAD 2021 new features, of particular interest to us was ‘Drawing History’, which makes it to significantly simpler to compare the current version of a drawing with any earlier version. Imagine that you have just returned from meeting with a client to get feedback on some development drawings you did for her proposed…
What is Section Drawing?Section drawing can be explained with a simple analogy: slicing a loaf of bread.If you had an unsliced loaf of fruit and nut bread and wanted to know how fruity and nutty it was, you would slice the loaf across the middle (say) and look at the sliced face of one of the…