In our last post, we described your first move at evaluating prospective CAD services: sending them a message. Now we’ll describe the second move: evaluating the responses. Here are the questions you need to ask about the responses along with how you should mark your answers: Did the message arrive within one business day? Yes:…
This is the second in a series of posts detailing how to zero in on a good CAD services provider to whom you can outsource your engineering or architectural drawings with confidence. In our last post, we listed several forums that can offer up service provider names worth checking out. Now comes the task of…
Let’s face it, there are thousands of CAD service providers. How do you find one that’s really good? We now have proven ways to garner opinions using incomparable technology. I’m talking about the Internet. To answer the earlier question, all one has to do is go to good forums related to architecture and either: See…
by R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group When you do a paper to CAD conversion, the input document is often a scanned paper print (also known as a “raster image file”). It is usually in TIFF, JPEG, BMP or PDF format. You will usually attach the raster image file to a new AutoCAD…
By R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group We experienced another strange problem in AutoCAD this week. THE PROBLEM We received a base plan file from our client with several layouts and xref files to attach. After finishing work on the drawing we tried to plot the file and found that… AutoCAD hangs during…
