Category Archives: Modifying

AutoLISP: Break Polyline at Vertex

Posted on September 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

You can always explode a Polyline if you need to break your polyline into individual segments. This method will make the polyline into individual lines. But what if you would like these individual segments to remain individual polylines? That’s where … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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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AutoLISP: Background Text Mask (Mtext Only)

Posted on August 19, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a quick way to turn on the text background to MTEXT. (Note: this routine works with MTEXT only.) Click here to see how to add Background Text Mask to Dimensions and MLeaders as this routine does not allow … Continue reading →

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Use TRIM to Extend

Posted on August 16, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Let’s face it – we use the TRIM command a lot and we rarely use the EXTEND command. In fact, we use it so rarely that we tend to forget how it works. Luckily, you can use the TRIM command … Continue reading →

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Delete objects with the Delete Button. Big Woop…

Posted on August 15, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Big surprise!!!! Huh? I know that you all know that if you select objects and hit the DELETE button the selected objects are erased. But did you know that if you hold the DELETE button and then pick individual objects, … Continue reading →

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