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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.

AutoCAD 2013 Some Thoughts

Posted on March 28, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Link to original post Today marks the release of AutoCAD 2013 and I am excited that I can finally start posting tips about some of its new features. I watched the video presentation from Autodesk which discussed more about the trends of … Continue reading →

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AutoLISP: Replace Selected Points with Block

Posted on March 27, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Today’s featured routine lets you replace selected points in a drawing with a defined block in the drawing. This routine could be more rubust but it is still helpful. It does let you specify the scale of the block and … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Blocks, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify | 18 Comments

AutoLISP: Easily Create Isometric Blocks

Posted on March 21, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a useful routine that will create isometric blocks based on an existing 2D (flat) block. This is great because all that you have to do is create the one block and this routine will do the rest for … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify, Customization, Isometrics | 17 Comments

AutoLISP: 3D View – Section View with Depth

Posted on March 14, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a handy routine that lets you easily define a view and define its view-depth. With cluttered 3D drawings, you may want to view objects from a side view but also not see the clutter behind and in front … Continue reading →

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Trim and Delete outside of closed polyline

Posted on March 14, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a very helpful routine that I seemed to have forgotten about. It lets you select a closed polyline and it will trim and delete everything outside of it. Anything that crosses its edge will be trimmed on the … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines, Modifying | 9 Comments

AutoLISP: Covert DTEXT & MTEXT to Multileaders

Posted on March 12, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

The previous routine only works with MTEXT objects. This routine, however, works with both MTEXT and DTEXT objects and even makes the process easier. Here’s how: MTLE <enter> to start Select the Text object(s) Specify where the end point (arrow) … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Text, Leaders, Text | 9 Comments

Add Leader to Text – Make Multileader

Posted on March 12, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have existing MTEXT objects and would like to add a leader to it and make into a Multileader object, this LISP will be your friend. The text objects do need to be MTEXT objects for this routine to … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Text, Leaders, Text | 8 Comments

AutoLISP: Trim Objects on One Side

Posted on March 8, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This routine is similar to the Express Tool EXTRIM (is covered near the bottom of the linked post) in that you select a cutting edge and then what side of the cutting edge you would like to trim. But the difference is … Continue reading →

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AutoLISP: Join Dimensions

Posted on March 1, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Simple routine – join separate dimensions into one Here’s how; JDIMS <enter> to start Select first dimension to join Select second dimension to join ~enter link to original post ;Shusei Hayashi ;OffshoreCad&Management Inc. ;10F Jaka Bldg., 6780 Ayala Ave., ;Makati, … Continue reading →

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AutoLISP: Interior Intersections of closed Polylines

Posted on February 28, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This is the last of the polyline routines that I have for now. This one lets you select to closed objects and will keep the area that the two objects share and trim away the rest. Even though this can … Continue reading →

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