Category Archives: Modifying

Hatch Gap Tolerance

If you need to insert a hatch in an area that isn’t completely “closed” this may be your new favorite friend. Instead of temporarily making a line to close off the area and then inserting the hatch and then going … Continue reading

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Fillet Radius Override

As seen in the previous post, setting your fillet radius to zero is very helpful. But there may be times when you have the fillet radius set to a value that you may forget if you set it to zero. … Continue reading

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Fillet Radius Set To Zero

If you have ever received drawings that had disconnected intersections, this tip will help you with your sanity. I have received drawings where the corner of a wall looked correct when I was zoomed out, but when I was zoomed in while … Continue reading

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AutoLISP: Text Box Width

Sorry for not posting in a while. I now have a full time job. I get work with AutoCAD and help people with their AutoCAD problems – Which is something that I love. Anyways – This routine is a great … Continue reading

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Spline to Polyline Without LISP

So, after all those posts about LISP routines that change Polylines into Splines and Splines into Polylines, I saw a video on Cadalyst’s Website that shows how this is available in AtuoCAD since 2010. This is very handy because you … Continue reading

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AutoLISP: Eraser

WARNING!! WARNING!! This is yet another erasing routine but there is a warning that goes along with it. You don’t actually select anything. Instead, whatever your cursor hovers over gets erased. So if you don’t have a steady hand, then … Continue reading

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AutoLISP: Erase Continuously (new & improved)

So Lee answered once again and combined the two previous routines into one awesome routine. You remain in the erase command and are able to select objects by 1) picking them 2) Window 3) Crossing window and as soon as … Continue reading

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AutoLISP: Erase Single

Here is another erase routine that lets you select only one object at a time but like the previous post, it erases the selected object and then continues the erase command. My ultimate goal would be to combine these 2 … Continue reading

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AutoLISP: Erase Continuous With a Window

A lot of the drawings that I get I end up erasing a lot of stuff. And after using SkethUP’s erase command, I wish that AutoCAD’s erase command worked in the same way. I asked Lee-Mac for help with this … Continue reading

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AutoLISP: Capital Text – Choose Some Not All

This routine is great because not every text object in a drawing needs to be capitalized and this routine lets you simply select the text objects that you want to be capitalized. It’s that simple… BTW – it works with … Continue reading

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