Category Archives: TIPS

Adding OLE Objects and Make Them Print

Posted on June 18, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

OLE is “Object Linking & Embedding” and it is pretty powerful. If you have an excel spread sheet or an image that resides outside of AutoCAD and you need these files inside of AutoCAD, adding these objects as an OLE object … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, Manage, OLE Objects, TIPS | 13 Comments

Lock the Position of your Toolbars and Palettes

Posted on June 4, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Once you get your toolbars and palettes in place, you’ll want them to stay put right? Here is a way to lock there position. Below is an extreme example with every toolbar placed on the screen and 2 palettes are … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Customization, Settling In, TIPS, Tool Palletes, Workspaces | 19 Comments

XREF Status Bar Button

Posted on June 4, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you open drawings and want to know if there are any XREFs in the drawing, you do not need to open the XREF manager. Simply look at the bottom right corner of the screen in the status bar. If … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Settling In, TIPS, XREFs | 1 Comment

Adding Lisp Files to a Tool Palette

Posted on May 30, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have some lisp routines that you would like to have available when you are working in various drawings here is a way to have them available in all your drawings. This method of adding the .lsp files to … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, Customization, Manage, TIPS | 10 Comments

Using Your Mouse to Move, Copy or Clear a Selection Set

Posted on May 24, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

I have posted about this topic before but I thought that it could be presented more clearly. You can use your windows mouse to move, copy, copy as a block, clear a selection set and escape/cancel from a command all … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, TIPS | 1 Comment

Remove Dimbreaks From Objects

Posted on May 23, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have applied Dimbreaks to either a dimension or a multileader and need to remove them please don’t erase the objects and recreate them. You can use the same DIMBREAK command that created the dimbreak to remove the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Dimensions, Leaders, Modifying, Text, TIPS | 2 Comments

Add a Dim Break to a Multileader

Posted on May 23, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

I was reading my company standards and came across an outdated-yet-common method  of modifying multileader objects for clarity. The process is to explode the multileader and then trim the leader line where it crosses dimensions so as to not be confused as an object … Continue reading →

Posted in Dimensions, Leaders, Text, TIPS | 2 Comments

AutoCAD 2013 Property Preview

Posted on May 7, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD 2013 has introduced a great new feature that allows you to select objects and then preview their property changes prior to assigning those properties to the objects. This a familiar feature that you may have used in other applications … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoCAD 2013, Customization, Modifying, New In 2013, Settling In, TIPS | 1 Comment

Load Express Tools for 2013

Posted on April 16, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This post works the same for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture. Upon installing AutoCAD you may not have installed the Express Tools… Here is how to load them: Click Start Click “Control Panel” Click on “Programs and Features” Note: if you … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoCAD 2013, Customization, Express Tools, Manage, New In 2013, TIPS | 75 Comments

Create Rotated or Aligned MTEXT

Posted on April 12, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you’ve gone to school for CAD or ever dealt with a good manager then you’ve undoubtedly heard them remind the CAD users to “Look at your options in the command line…” Today’s tip is a good example of this. If you … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Text, TIPS | 3 Comments