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Cant See .ctb files: CONVERTPSTYLES
When opening a drawing that is from someone else, they may have set the drawing to plot/print using a “Style” that has a file extension of “.stb” instead of a “.ctb” What is a “.stb”? The settings that...
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OFFSET Polyline True Distance – OFFSETGAPTYPE
The OFFSET command creates parallel copies of an object away from the original object. Here’s the scenario – You have an electrical drawing with limited space. You also have an oddly shaped electrical...
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Continue A Table In A New Column With A Table Break
AutoCAD table objects are great in how they act similar to Microsoft Excel allowing you to add columns and rows and with the controls available, you can format the table in many ways to add style to...
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Add Dimension Leader Line
Sometimes when placing dimensions in a drawing, they can get cluttered and it isn’t always clear what dimension text belongs to what dimension. (pictured below – example dimension) There is a feature...
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Express Tool: Save All Opened Drawings
If you have multiple drawings opened in AutoCAD at the same time and would like to save all the drawings before stepping away from your computer… you can easily save all the currently open drawings...
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AutoLISP: Print All Layout Tabs
Here is a simple routine that should help plot all of the layout tabs in a drawing. Note: This routine will print all of the layouts with the same setups -so this is a limitation and shouldn’t be...
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Raster Design Quick Start
A very cool AutoCAD add-on called “Raster Design” lets you easily incorporate raster images like .jpegs and .tif files in you drawing. The cool part about this software is that it lets you edits the...
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AutoCAD Self Adjusting Text Frame Using Multileaders
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 the...
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Change the “Standard” Font in AutoCAD Template
Some drafting standards require a text “font” that is something other than the “Arial” font, yet AutoCAD seems to keep reverting back to this font even after changing what font the text style is using....
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View Fonts Used in Styles Without Opening A Drawing
Continuing the previous blog post concerning how to control what font is being used as the “Standard” text style – One issue that has come up is that upon opening a drawing that has the “Standard” text...
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AutoLISP: Convert 2D Solid to Polyline Outline
Since 2D solids aren’t very friendly after you place them and are hard to edit, you may need find this tool helpful for converting the solid into a polyline that represents the outline of the solid. An...
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Rotate Objects to Reference an Angle
The Rotate command can be used to match an angle of an existing object or allow you to input an angle. This tip is especially helpful when you don’t know the angle of the objects. maybe all you know...
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Missing Hatch Ribbon or Dialog Box setting
The hatch ribbon has become the “norm” for the last couple of releases of AutoCAD but you may have switch how you place and edit hatches to the legacy dialog box version. But what happens if you switch...
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AutoLISP: Closed Objects to Wipeout updated
It has been a while since using this LISP routine, but apparently the routine that was posted a couple of years ago (found here: http://autocadtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/autolisp-objects-2-wipeout/)...
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XREF Load Status App Review
The app mentioned in this post saved my sanity while opening drawings that contained a large amount of XREFs (External References). The “XREF Load Status” app is available from the Autodesk Exchange...
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AutoLISP: Rotate Multiple Objects Around Their Base Point
There are 2 things in this blog post that I want to point out. 1) Share a LISP routine that rotates multiple objects around their individual base points… 2) The lisp routine shown in this post hasn’t...
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AutoLISP: Change Text Styles
Today’s featured routine was posted by “Peter” at Augi.com found here: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?22959-Help-Changing-text-style-in-blocks This routine helps changes the text style of text...
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AutoCAD Cursor/Crosshair Angle
Have you ever opened someone else’s drawing and the AutoCAD cursor is at some odd angle? The system variable to help control this setting is SNAPANG. Below is an example of a cursor at an odd angle...
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AutoCAD 2015: Text Align Dynamically
A new feature in AutoCAD 2015 is the Text Align tool found on the “Annotate” tab > “Text” Panel and the button that has 2 stacked letter A’s. The command to start this command is TEXTALIGN...
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AutoLISP: Dynamic Text Align
With AutoCAD 2015′s new TEXTALIGN tool, comes the question of “what about those of us that don’t have AutoCAD 2015″? Luckily, Lee Mac has a LISP version that accomplishes many of the same functions and...
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