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Fixing Your Broken Concrete Hatch Pattern

Posted on July 24, 2017 by AutoCAD Tips

I hope that you noticed something in my previous blog post about fixing holes in hatches that didn’t have anything to do with that topic. In fact, this is a very common issue that plagues AutoCAD Civil 3D users. As … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Civil 3D, Civil 3D Tips, Hatch, Modifying, TIPS, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

LISP version of Closest Distance Between Two Objects

Posted on March 13, 2017 by AutoCAD Tips

The previous tip showcased a command that is available in Civil 3D that lets you find the closest distance between 2 objects and even draws a line at the closest points. Here is a LISP routine that lets you do … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Dimensions, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Civil 3D: Closest Distance Between Two Objects

Posted on September 20, 2016 by AutoCAD Tips

There are so many useful drafting tools within Civil 3D, many of which could be great additions to “vanilla” AutoCAD. Today’s post will be the first of many helpful tools found in Civil 3D and if possible, I will post … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil 3D, Civil 3D Tips, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Poll – Does your company use Annotative Text & Dimensions in model space.

Posted on April 22, 2015 by AutoCAD Tips

Besides Civil 3D users, I know of no engineering firm that uses annotative text or dimensions in Model Space. I tend to teach people how to use it so that they know how. But I also teach them how to … Continue reading →

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Happy Monday

Posted on March 29, 2015 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a happy song to help your Monday. It has helped me Sorry it is not AutoCAD related… ~Greg

Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments

AutoLISP: Updated Heal Line/Polyline

Posted on November 12, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

There were 2 posts from a while back that did the same thing – Erase a selected block and then heal the LINE or POLYLINE, but the annoying thing was that only one routine would work for LINES and you … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Blocks, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines, Modifying, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

AutoCAD List of Command Aliases and Shortcut Keys

Posted on July 28, 2014 by AutoCAD Tips

Today’s tip is simply a link to an excellent AutoCAD alias and shortcut reference guide provided by Autodesk & The AutoCAD team. The link is found here: http://www.autodesk.com/store/autocad/autocad-shortcuts I highly recommend learning command aliases like using XR in the command line … Continue reading →

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AutoCAD Self Adjusting Text Frame Using Multileaders

Posted on September 24, 2013 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have ever had to add a frame around your text and then have had to edit that text and re-adjust or even recreate the frame, today’s tip will help save you the time from having to edit both … Continue reading →

Posted in Leaders, Text, TIPS, Uncategorized | 20 Comments

AutoLISP: Purge Page Setups

Posted on May 20, 2013 by AutoCAD Tips

The code posted below will purge all Page Setups except for the current page setup (if one is applied). If you have ever received a drawing with many page setups this routine will help reduce the amount of setups that … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Manage, AutoLISP: Modify, Manage, Printing - Plotting, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

AutoLISP: Simple Numeric Array

Posted on January 9, 2013 by AutoCAD Tips

Today’s featured routine is an example from a book about Visual Lisp Programming and was an example that we learned from as an example in class when I was in school. It is a simple routine that lets you incrementally array … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Text, Uncategorized | 3 Comments