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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.

AutoLISP: Break at Intersections With A Gap

Posted on September 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a very useful routine that breaks objects at their intersections and then creates a gap at the intersection on the first object that you select. Here’s how: BI <enter> to start Specify the gap distance.  <enter> (Note: the … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, Modifying, Polylines | 1 Comment

Cycle Through View Ports using CTRL + R

Posted on September 15, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

You may have read that you can cycle through View Ports in books and other websites but if you don’t see it in action, you may not fully understand its usefulness. Here is an example of a layout tab that has … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Layout, Paper Space, TIPS, Viewports | 1 Comment

Rotate Viewport

Posted on September 8, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s how to rotate a viewport and rotate THE VIEW of the objects within the viewport: Simply change a system variable. The variable is VPROTATEASSOCC As seen below, <0> = OFF & <1> = ON

Posted in BASICS, Layout, Paper Space, TIPS, Viewports | 1 Comment

Function Keys (Drafting Settings) Toggle Over-Ride

Posted on September 8, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

I know that the title for this post might be a little much, but I just wanted to call it what it is…. The “Drafting Settings” keys are especially useful when you learn the “Function keys” (ex. the buttons located … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, TIPS | 5 Comments

Restoring a Pop-Up Notification

Posted on September 5, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

You know the routine… A notification pops-up on your screen and if it has a “don’t show me this again” option, you click it. Believe it or not, there are some notifications that are helpful. And lets say that you … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Customization, Modifying, Text, TIPS | Leave a comment

Customize The Pop-Up Notifications

Posted on September 5, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

One thing that is great about AutoCAD is that it will tell you if something worked or didn’t work. One way it does this is by showing little pop-up notifications in the lower right hand corner of your screen. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, Settling In, TIPS | 1 Comment

AutoLISP: Detach All XREFS

Posted on September 1, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

I found this a little while ago and noticed that there is no header – so I don’t know who wrote it. Whoever it was – thank you!! Update: I found the original postings of this code: This little routine … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, Modifying, XREFs | 2 Comments

Disable Viewport Activation

Posted on August 29, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

While working in paper-space, you may be wanting to simply move things around. The trouble sometimes is  accidentally activating an unlocked viewport and messing up the correct position or scale of the that viewport. In a perfect world, the viewport should be locked … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, Layers, Modifying, Paper Space, Text, TIPS, Viewports | 2 Comments

Select Individual Polyline Segment

Posted on August 29, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s a useful quickie: You can select individual segments of a PolyLine and then edit the segments by simply holding the CTRL button and then individually picking the segments. In the example below, I selected the individual segments and then … Continue reading →

Posted in Modifying, Polylines | 5 Comments

AutoLISP: Swap Text & Attributes

Posted on August 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a good quickie that lets you swap text objects – even Attributes that are within the same block and even attributes within different blocks. (Note: the “swapping” of attributes is actually only swapping the “value” of the and … Continue reading →

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