Buildings consume a significant portion of global energy, with heating and lighting alone accounting for 18% of total consumption. A major contributor to this inefficiency is outdated HVAC systems, which struggle to adjust to changing weather conditions, leading to energy waste. AI is emerging as a potential solution, with some experts arguing that it…
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…
Overview This 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…
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…
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…
