Autodesk poll, Civil 3D Wishlist, and Hot Tip Harry
A few items to note.Autodesk is conducting another poll/survey consisting of six questions "so that we may better understand the structure of your organization". You can participate by clicking here....
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Addselected Command
One of the new commands in AutoCAD 2011 (and its verticals) is ADDSELECTED. This command will create a new object based on the object type and properties of a selected object.You could do something...
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Adding Color to your B/W drawings
If you produce construction documents, chances are the majority of your work is produced in black and white, for eventual printing and/or reproduction on a monochrome printer. If you use color...
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External Reference Status
In the External References palette, in the List View, there is a status column. As you might expect, this informs you of the status of the reference file. Have you ever seen a status that you did not...
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Erase Single Macro
I wonder how many people are familiar with this macro? I am pretty sure it used to be in the stock OOTB AutoCAD menus a long time ago, maybe on the screen menu? The macro I'm talking about is one that...
View ArticleWorking with multiple layouts
Here is a quick tip regarding layouts. Use Designcenter (command:ADC) to easily copy complete layouts from one drawing to another. By complete layout, I mean the layout, any geometry in the layout and...
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Open a Sheet Set when launching AutoCAD
If you work on a particular project frequently, you can save a step by creating a desktop (or start menu) shortcut for launching AutoCAD, and have it automatically open the desired Sheet Set.Here is...
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Tangent Lines and Arcs
Here is a quick tip on drawing tangent lines and arcs. Before getting started, you can easily drawing tangent arc and line segments when using POLYLINEs, but we are going to discuss using plain LINE...
View ArticleTips when INSERTING blocks
Sometimes it may be faster to use the-INSERT command to avoid the dialog. Of course it helps if the block name is short, but if you know the block is in the support file search path then give this a...
View ArticleUnable to save to drawing....
It is not uncommon to see this problem around the AutoCAD world. You press Ctrl+S or click the save icon and you get a message that says something like this:"Unable to save to drawing...
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