Table of Contents Autodesk QTO – The Best Little Program You Aren’t Using! 12
Feature
3
AUGIWorld Q&A
22 Planned Plotting
6
Big Room Drawing Health
26 AutoCAD’s
9
Bootstrap Your AutoCAD Deployments
14
A BIM-less World
16
The Art of Sharing with eTransmit
20 One Man Shop:
Consulting vs. Freelancing, Part Two
2
Annotative (Adaptive Attitude; Leave Your Comfort Zone!)
28 What’s the Point of
this Roof?
30 Wood Framing
Walls
34 Own the Interface 36
Spaces in AutoCAD Architecture
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