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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 2015: Text Align Dynamically

Posted on March 29, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

A new feature in AutoCAD 2015 is the Text Align tool found on the “Annotate” tab > “Text” Panel and the button that has 2 stacked letter A’s. The command to start this command is TEXTALIGN <enter> and the command … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoCAD 2015, Modifying, New in 2015, Text | Tagged | 5 Comments

AutoCAD Cursor/Crosshair Angle

Posted on March 27, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

Have you ever opened someone else’s drawing and the AutoCAD cursor is at some odd angle? The system variable to help control this setting is SNAPANG. Below is an example of a cursor at an odd angle while in a … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, TIPS | 1 Comment

AutoLISP: Change Text Styles

Posted on February 6, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

Today’s featured routine was posted by “Peter” at Augi.com found here: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?22959-Help-Changing-text-style-in-blocks This routine helps changes the text style of text objects and even attributes inside of blocks to a user specified text style. This is helpful for when you … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Attributes, AutoLISP: Manage, AutoLISP: Text | 9 Comments

AutoLISP: Rotate Multiple Objects Around Their Base Point

Posted on February 1, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

There are 2 things in this blog post that I want to point out. 1) Share a LISP routine that rotates multiple objects around their individual base points… 2) The lisp routine shown in this post hasn’t been altered since … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Blocks, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Text | 34 Comments

XREF Load Status App Review

Posted on January 26, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

The app mentioned in this post saved my sanity while opening drawings that contained a large amount of XREFs (External References). The “XREF Load Status” app is available from the Autodesk Exchange Apps store in a free version that will … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, XREFs | Leave a comment

AutoLISP: Closed Objects to Wipeout updated

Posted on January 25, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

It has been a while since using this LISP routine, but apparently the routine that was posted a couple of years ago (found here: https://autocadtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/autolisp-objects-2-wipeout/) and written by Giles Chanteau stopped working in newer releases of AutoCAD because it now needs … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines, Wipeouts | 11 Comments

Missing Hatch Ribbon or Dialog Box setting

Posted on January 24, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

The hatch ribbon has become the “norm” for the last couple of releases of AutoCAD but you may have switch how you place and edit hatches to the legacy dialog box version. But what happens if you switch to the … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Hatch | 2 Comments

Rotate Objects to Reference an Angle

Posted on January 14, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

The Rotate command can be used to match an angle of an existing object or allow you to input an angle.   This tip is especially helpful when you don’t know the angle of the objects. maybe all you know … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Modifying, TIPS | 12 Comments

AutoLISP: Convert 2D Solid to Polyline Outline

Posted on December 28, 2013 by AutoCAD Tips

Since 2D solids aren’t very friendly after you place them and are hard to edit, you may need find this tool helpful for converting the solid into a polyline that represents the outline of the solid. An example of its … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines | 8 Comments

View Fonts Used in Styles Without Opening A Drawing

Posted on October 9, 2013 by AutoCAD Tips

Continuing the previous blog post concerning how to control what font is being used as the “Standard” text style – One issue that has come up is that upon opening a drawing that has the “Standard” text style defined as … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, Manage, Text, TIPS | 2 Comments