Lipinski CAD Engineering and Development, LLC

01/31/2026

Services in New Jersey:
• Visitation: Monday, Feb 2 (Bridgewater Funeral Home).
• Funeral Mass: Tuesday (Sacred Heart Church, Manville). The mass will be held in Polish to honor his heritage.

For those who would like to read the full obituary, get full details of services, share a memory, or plant a memorial tree, I have placed the link in my profile bio. We are grateful for the love and support from our family and friends during this time.

01/30/2026

It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my father, Mieczyslaw Lipinski. He lived a life defined by dedication and hard work; these are values he instilled in me and that I carry into my professional work every day.

For friends and colleagues who would like to pay their respects, the funeral home has provided a digital memorial page. This link includes the schedule for the visitation in Bridgewater and the funeral mass in Manville. As his heritage was very important to him, the mass will be conducted in Polish.

You may view the obituary, find directions, or contribute to a memorial tree planting via the link below. Thank you for your support as I take this time to be with my family.

View Mieczyslaw Lipinski's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

01/02/2026

Stop switching between TRIM and EXTEND. They are the same command if you know the Shift key secret. Learn how to slash your editing time in half with the implied fence and smart boundaries.

The Yin and Yang of CAD Editing There are two commands in AutoCAD that account for a massive percentage of your drafting...

12/11/2025

If you ask most CAD users how to create a row of fence posts or a line of evenly spaced bolts, they will likely point you...

12/11/2025

The AutoCAD Ribbon was designed for people who do not know what they want to do next. The Command Line is for those who do. Here is why I disable the Ribbon, reclaim my screen real estate, and stick to the Old School ways.
https://oldschoolcadwizard.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-command-line-sidebar-and-ribbons.html

01/07/2025

The rebuilding (after moving) of my home music studio/workspace️ is really coming together! Can't wait to get back to working on my music and 3D projects!

11/19/2021

It's been a while since I "whipped up" a VM and played around with Linux and programming (other than AutoLISP).
Let's have some fun tonight with Lubunto, Python, and some Instagram API's!

🖱️ 📐 ⚙️

10/21/2021

A little piece of code from our ACADDOC.LSP as part of our AutoCAD setup.
The first subroutine (or "progn") deletes existing page setups from the drawing and then imports new ones from a template drawing (dwt).
The second subroutine inserts a drawing as a block (effectively redefining if it already exists). The lone "(command)" essential mimics hitting the ESC button so that you don't need a base point, rotation, and/or scale values, but the block is still refined and in the drawing's database.
We use this bit of code in our ACADDOC.LSP to provide the current user the latest page setups (printers change over time) and the latest company logo (with slogans changing often).
Problem was, it wasn't working right. The current drawing still had old page setups mixed in with new ones.
Apparently, when inserting a drawing as a block, you inherent the page setups from that same drawing.
Solution? Reverse the order of the subroutines.
Take away? Order of operations are key.
Also, be careful when inserting drawings. Not only will you inherent page setups, but also unwanted styles of various flavors (DIM, TEXT, TABLE, etc).

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03/28/2018

Unlimited Tomorrow Advances Prosthetics with 3D Printing

As many families and individuals have already realized, traditional prosthetic models are often very large and can be burdensome or inconvenient to use. They are also typically very expensive, with a per device price-tag in the tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes even more. Enter Easton LaChappe...

03/28/2018

Where Does the Mac Fit in Autodesk's new One AutoCAD Strategy?

The Mac today plays a part in the One AutoCAD strategy that is unique from the mobile and Web variants—a desktop version which apparently has unique users as a group but where diverse devices and settings require different degrees of parity.