Category Archives: Customization

Point Size

Posted on February 3, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have ever been frustrated with the size of POINTs in your drawing, there is an easy way to change the size and the way they appear in your drawing. The command is DDPTYPE and it will open a … Continue reading →

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Adding Text to your Dim

Posted on December 30, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

I have seen a few Lisp routines that allow you to add a line of text under your dimension. I thought that it would be helpful to show that you don’t need a lisp routine to do this. You just … Continue reading →

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Express Tools for ACAD Architecture 2011

Posted on December 24, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Yet, another program that’s not vanilla AutoCAD but still relavent. In AutoCAD Architecture 2011, you may have noticed that after installation, there are no Express Tools. I realized that after I installed the program that I forgot to install the … Continue reading →

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In Defense of the Ribbon

Posted on December 18, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

In Defense of the RIBBON In the past year, I have made the switch to AutoCAD’s ribbon interface. I would show up to class and changed my workspace to the classic interface with the lovely toolbars. I would look at … Continue reading →

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Presenting Your Dimensional Constraints

Posted on December 13, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have played around with dimensional constraints, you have noticed that they look very different than regular dimensions. In fact, they are so different that they are not presentable. Well… they will be presentable after reading this tutorial. First, … Continue reading →

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Augi Forums OOPS!!!

Posted on December 11, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have ever used google or yahoo to look for solutions for your AutoCAD needs, you have most likely been referred to the AUGI.com forums. When you do a search and see an augi forum link, don’t bother with … Continue reading →

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Auto-Align your Blocks

Posted on December 2, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Some people live in a square world, but for us who live in a drafting world, there are angles galore. Luckily for us, when we bring blocks into our angled drafting environment, we no longer have to use the ROTATE … Continue reading →

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MTJIGSTRING

Posted on November 28, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Okay, that heading was not very descriptive, but I know that you’ll enjoy this tip. When you place MTEXT, by default, it is blank. And by “blank”, I mean that there is no preview of text so that you can … Continue reading →

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Mirrored Text

Posted on November 16, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Have you ever received a drawing or made a drawing that the text was mirrored, thus unreadable? This mainly happens when a block with either text or attributes is mirrored and the system variable “MIRRTEXT” has been set to <1>. As … Continue reading →

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Track Path

Posted on November 10, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

If you use “Object Snap Tracking” or OTRACK, you will like this tip. If you have ever been annoyed with the dashed “track path” that goes infinitely across your screen, you can change this so that the dashed line only … Continue reading →

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