Category Archives: TIPS

Rotating your UCS

Posted on February 22, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Thanks to LIZ for this tip. Hope it helps… If you’ve had a drawing that isn’t completely based around 90 degree angles, this tip will halp you from tilting your head and straining you neck… The drawing shown above has … Continue reading →

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Line-Type Scale

Posted on February 19, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

When you are in Model-Space, and place a dashed line, you may not see the dashed line. In order to see the dashed line, you need to adjust the LTSCALE (Line Type Scale). The scale factor that you set when … Continue reading →

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Tab thru Layout Tabs

Posted on February 19, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s a quick tip: Hold the CTRL button and then hit the PAGE-UP or PAGE-DOWN buttons to “tab” through your layout tabs.

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Adding a new Layout

Posted on February 16, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Creating layouts and viewports have been around for a while; Viewports were introduced in Release 12 (1992), even though they functioned differently than what is commonly used as viewports today… The Layout function was introduced in Release 2000 (1999). So they … Continue reading →

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Block Count

Posted on February 7, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s a way to count the blocks in your drawing. Use the command BCOUNT and you can individually select blocks, use a window selection or type ALL at the command line and every block in your drawing will be selected. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blocks, TIPS | 18 Comments

Moving Around In Your Text

Posted on February 5, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

This is a little tip that will help you move around text. It works in AutoCAD and Word and I even tested while in my blog text editor and it works. If you would like to move your cursor to … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in BASICS, Customization, TIPS | 39 Comments

Leaders with Shapes Made Easy

Posted on January 30, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

You may know that you can create a MultiLeader style that incorporates a shape at the end of the leader like a square or circle – this is useful for making keynotes and legends. The problem with this is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Attributes, Blocks, Leaders, Text, TIPS | 4 Comments

Text Mask for Dims & MLeaders

Posted on January 29, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

I recently learned this great tip and am eager to share it here. Adding text masking to Text & MText is easy in 2011 but many people just give up when it comes to adding them to Dimensions or MultiLeaders. … Continue reading →

Posted in Dimensions, Leaders, Modifying, Text, TIPS | 8 Comments

QTEXT

Posted on January 22, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Large amounts of text in a drawing can slow down your drawing session. AutoCAD regenerates whenever you pan and zoom, so when you have a lot of text in your drawing, you have the option of temporarily hiding text in … Continue reading →

Posted in Attributes, BASICS, Dimensions, Text, TIPS | 1 Comment