AutoCAD How to Remove Border From Images - Plus PDFs & A Quick Trick!

2 Minute Tuesday | CAD Intentions: Hey Everybody! Brandon here with yet another 2-Minute Tuesday, extending the continuous streak to somewhere over a dozen in a row! In today’s video we are taking a quick look at the various commands in AutoCAD to turn on / off or remove borders from images, ole objects, pdfs, and wipeouts!

How to Use a Miter Saw: Training the Apprentice

Pro Tool Reviews: Thinking about a job in construction? Understanding how to use a miter saw for trim work gives you a leg up on one of the most basic job site skills. A miter saw works best for trim projects requiring accurate straight, beveled, and/or mitered cuts.

In its simplest form, the miter saw makes angled or mitered cuts across the face of a board. The most popular Pro models include sliding rails to increase the maximum width of the cut. That translates into the ability to cut wider boards.

How to Build a Leaning Ladder Bookcase

This Old House: A ladder bookcase is a great addition to any room. Best of all, you can easily build your own for a third of the price you’d pay at the store. Follow the directions below to learn how to build a DIY ladder bookcase.

How to Use a Screw Extractor | Remove Damaged Screws Like a Pro!

www.protoolreviews.com: Rounded-out screws got you down? We’ll show you how to use a screw extractor to remove damaged screws. Do it right, and you can back a busted screw out of its hiding place in less than a minute. Of course, you need the right tool.

Laser Noob: Getting Started With the K40 Laser

Hackaday: Why spend thousands on a laser cutter/engraver when you can spend as little as $350 shipped to your door? Sure it’s not as nice as those fancy domestic machines, but the plucky K40 is the little laser that can. Just head on down to Al’s Laser Emporium and pick one up. Yes, it sounds like a used car dealership ad, but how far is it from the truth? Read on to find out!

7 Very Best Job Sites on The Web to Help You Advance Your Career

www.lifehack.org: You may already know that you’re good in your field, but you need to know more. Here’s what I mean: Write down your soft and hard skills. Hard skills are ones that are more technical and taught in a classroom. For example, learning to read, write, math problems and so on. Soft skills relate to the way you interact with others. So, the way you interact with your team and friends determine which soft skills you have.

Art Deco Sconces

Prop Agenda: We recently opened “And Then There Were None” at Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC. Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery takes place in 1930’s England in a sleek, unique seaside home. Robin Vest’s scenic design gave us a sparse, Art Deco-inspired interior populated with a few trappings of a world traveler.

Making a Lantern Prop in EVA Foam in Four Hours

makezine.com: Bill Doran of Punished Props Academy has posted a project and video for making an EVA foam lantern prop with flickering (programmable) LED light strips inside. Bill had one day before DragonCon to complete the build and accomplished it in four hours.

Design disciplines: What’s the difference?

ThoughtForm, Inc.: Many organizations are working to become “design driven.” The Design Management Institute (DMI) latest Design Value Index in 2015 showed that over the last 10 years, design-led companies have outperformed the S&P by 211%. Hopefully, your organization is working to build out your design capabilities, either internally or through strategic partnerships. However, for many leaders, there is some confusion around the design disciplines available and the problems each excels in.

How To: Anodize Aluminum

makezine.com: In the video, he recommends the excellent anodizing educational resources available from electroplating suppliers, Caswell. There is an electroplating rig to build and caustic chemicals to deal with, but in the end, anodizing, electroplating, and etching are easier to do in your home shop than you might think.

Making 3D Objects The Scroll Saw Way

Hackaday: These days most have come to think that if you want to make a complex 3D object with all curved surfaces then a 3D printer is the only way to go. Many have even forgotten that once such things could be hand carved. [JEPLANS], on the other hand, is a master at making these objects using only a scroll saw as he’s done with his latest, a miniature camel cut from a single block of maple.

New to Art? Here are 10 Basic Drawing Techniques You Need to Know

mymodernmet.com: Drawing is one of the most basic ways to exercise your creativity. Whether you’re using a pencil, pen, crayon, or even your fingers, the skills you gain from the activity translate to a bevy of different media. Learning the fundamentals is simple to do, but like all art, they require a lot of practice to master. But once you do, you’ll have the ability create images you’re truly proud of.

How to drill holes through glass

Boing Boing: Chris Notap bought some cheap hole-cutting bits on eBay and tried them out on a pane of glass, a mason jar, a ceramic bathroom tile, a mirror, and a coffee mug. The results are nice.

Stymied by a Tricky Problem? Why Talking Out Loud Might Help.

The Creativity Post: I once had a violin teacher who had this amusing habit of talking out loud to himself. Essentially offering a running play-by-play of whatever he was doing at the moment, whether he was sharpening a pencil, typing an email, or packing the trunk of a car.

I thought it was a personal quirk, but as the years have gone by, I’ve caught myself talking out loud on occasion.

And it seems I’m not alone in doing so.

What’s up with this? Are we just weirdos?

Everyday AutoCAD Command Improvements

Tuesday Tips: Welcome to Part 3 in my five-part series exploring the many recent AutoCAD updates designed to enhance your daily user experience. AutoCAD really is getting better all the time. Some longtime users find some improvement a bit jarring, like the introduction of the ribbon interface. (You can always go back to the classic interface. See Video of the Month: AutoCAD 2017 Classic Workspace. Miss It?; Bring Back Dialog Boxes with Classic AutoCAD Commands; and Tuesday Tip: AutoCAD User Interface — Seeing Things Your Way.) But most everyday AutoCAD command improvements are just that: Improvements to the tools you’re already using every day.

Projection mapping keyboard - Try it at home

Projection Mapping Central: Turn your tabletop into a playground for your keyboard. Philippe Dubost made an open sourced web based projection mapped keyboard, that shoots letters from your keyboard. Just go to keybright.net, drag the browser window over to your projector (you already pointed a projector at your desk right?), then play!

Mastering Ball Screws

Hackaday: Most inexpensive 3D printers use a type of lead screw to move some part of the printer in the vertical direction. A motor turns a threaded rod and that causes a nut to go up or down. The printer part rides on the nut. This works well, but it is slower than other drive mechanisms (which is why you don’t often see them on the horizontal parts of a printer). Some cheap printers use common threaded rod, which is convenient, but prone to bad behavior since the rods are not always straight, the threads are subject to backlash, and the tolerances are not always the best.

7 Deadly Sins of Project Management You Should Never Commit

DZone Agile: Everyone makes mistakes, and Project Managers are no exceptions. With so many things to take care of, a Project Manager can sometimes get off track and this leaves a huge dent on a project’s progress. Even with a project management software at their disposal, most projects tend to exceed the allocated time and budget and are shelved or abandoned.

Battery powered fog machine

www.instructables.com: I needed a small battery-powered fog machine for an upcoming project. Mains-powered foggers are not at all expensive (~$40). But a battery powered portable one is, for reasons I don't really understand, a whopping $800 (or even $1850!). There are various wimpy fog machines like the Wizard Stick (kid's toy) and the Dragon Puffer (same device, repurposed for draft-testing), that don't generate much fog and need to be held upright.

2D Drawings Check-in & Roadmap

DESIGN DIFFERENTLY: Firstly, on behalf of the entire Fusion 360 Drawing team, I want to thank you for all of the patience, persistence, and boldness you have shown to us over the last 2 years. Whether you’ve engaged with us face-to-face, on the IdeaStation, or through the Forum, you have shaped our product direction and kept us accountable in striving to build out a 2D Drawing package every Fusion 360 user can be proud to use.