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About AutoCAD Tips

This blog serves as a knowledge base for myself (and anyone else) so that I can reference tips & tricks that I have learned and also refer others to it as well. I hope that this blog helps you learn at least one tip to make your drafting/design experience better.

Remove Dimbreaks From Objects

Posted on May 23, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have applied Dimbreaks to either a dimension or a multileader and need to remove them please don’t erase the objects and recreate them. You can use the same DIMBREAK command that created the dimbreak to remove the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Dimensions, Leaders, Modifying, Text, TIPS | 2 Comments

Add a Dim Break to a Multileader

Posted on May 23, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

I was reading my company standards and came across an outdated-yet-common method  of modifying multileader objects for clarity. The process is to explode the multileader and then trim the leader line where it crosses dimensions so as to not be confused as an object … Continue reading →

Posted in Dimensions, Leaders, Text, TIPS | 2 Comments

AutoLISP: Fillet To A Selected Point

Posted on May 23, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This is a useful routine that lets you easily create a fillet when the radius of the fillet is not not known. The point that you pick while defining the radius will lie along the fillet. Here’s how: FP <enter> … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify | 2 Comments

AutoLISP: Define a Pipe’s Path by 3D Curved Objects

Posted on May 18, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Today’s featured routine is a gem if you need to make basic 3D Pipes. It does a couple of awesome thing: 1) It creates a pipe with an inner and outer diameter thus creating a true pipe. 2) Lets you … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: 3D, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines | 2 Comments

AutoLISP: Fillet a 3D Polyline

Posted on May 18, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a great routine that lets you easily fillet a 3D polyline. It even gives the option to apply the fillet to all of the vertices. Here’s how: 3DPOLYFILLET <enter> to start R <enter> to specify the radius of … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: 3D, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines | 4 Comments

AutoLISP: Apply Current Page Setup To All Layout Tabs

Posted on May 18, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

The title of today’s routine pretty much explains what this LISP routine does. You must have the layout tab active with the correct page setup current on that tab as well. Here’s how: CPS <enter> To start and run ~enjoy … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Manage, Layout, Paper Space, Printing - Plotting | 33 Comments

AutoLISP: Auto Trim and Extend Lines

Posted on May 10, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This routine may come in handy if you would like to trim or extend lines to an object. Note: This routine will only modify line objects. Here’s how: TTT <enter> to start Select the bounding edge that the lines will … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify | 2 Comments

Viewport Clip

Posted on May 8, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Say that you have a default rectangle viewport already set – you have the scale set and dimensions and the multileaders points to objects in your viewport. But then you want to trim some of the objects out of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Layout, Modifying, Paper Space, Viewports | 9 Comments

AutoCAD 2013 Property Preview

Posted on May 7, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD 2013 has introduced a great new feature that allows you to select objects and then preview their property changes prior to assigning those properties to the objects. This a familiar feature that you may have used in other applications … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoCAD 2013, Customization, Modifying, New In 2013, Settling In, TIPS | 1 Comment

AutoLISP: Select Attributes for Invisibility

Posted on April 30, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a simple lisp routine that lets you select the individual attribute to make it “invisible.” Here’s how: INVIS <enter> to start Select the attributes that you would like to be invisible <enter> when finished (defun c:invis (/ ent … Continue reading →

Posted in Attributes, AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Attributes, AutoLISP: Blocks, AutoLISP: Modify | Leave a comment