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AutoCAD Grips
AutoCAD grips have come a long way over the years. With the addition of the polyline mid-point grip, I can’t live without them. If for some reason, your grips are not behaving correctly, here’s how to...
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Happy Monday
Here is a happy song to help your Monday. It has helped me Sorry it is not AutoCAD related… ~Greg
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Outbreak of Riots – Bring Back our Status Bar Text!!!
My first blog post on this blog [found here in Nov 03 2010] was about making your status bar icons display as text. When you have the icons displayed, you end up wasting time hovering over an icon and...
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Add Objects to Block Using Edit Block In Place
If you were wondering, Yes there is a LISP routine to accomplish the same thing found [here] by Lee-Mac. But here is how you can do the same thing using the “Edit Block In-Place” option of editing...
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CADWorx Piping Displays As Single Line
Have you ever opened a CADWorx piping drawing only to find a bunch of center lines where your 3D piping should be? (shown below) Use the CADWorx command CONVERTSOLID to make these single lines display...
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Poll – Does your company use Annotative Text & Dimensions in model space.
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...
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MTJIGSTRING
When you enter T <enter> at the command line, it starts the MTEXT command and you normally see “abc” prompt When you enter MTJIGSTRING in the command line, you are able to enter ten characters to...
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Angular Dimensions More than 180° for ACAD 2016
Since the new DIMension command (which I love) has kind of changed the way we do dimensions, here is how you apply an angular degree that is more than 180°. It has been about 5 years since I first...
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Batch Convert DGN to DWG using Microstation
This tip requires that you (or someone else) has Microstation. To be honest, the only thing that I know how to do in Microstation is open a DGN file (Microstation file) and either do a “Save as” >...
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AutoCAD 2016 System Variable Monitor
If you are tired of opening a drawing and being surprised why some settings are not what you’d think they should be, The new feature called the “System Variable Monitor” or SYSVARMONITOR is now your...
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AutoLISP: Block Name to MultiLeader
The routine illustrated below is from Alan Thompson found HERE at CADTutor. This routine lets you select a block and place a multileader that contains the name of the block. The arrowhead or leader...
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Block Description to Multileader
Following up on the previous post – The routine illustrated below is also made by Alan Thompson found HERE lets you select a block and place a multileader containing the Block’s description (see below...
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Shrink The Info Center Search Area to Expand File Name
This tip is simple yet helpful in displaying more of a file name that might be obscured by the upper right “Info Center.” All that you have to do is simply collapse the arrow next to the search field...
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Polygon Intro, Reminder and Cool Trick
Hopefully, today’s tip will help you AutoCAD “newbies” and you “old schoolers” The POLYGON tool in AutoCAD creates “Simple Polygons” that are symmetrical. The Polygon tool is located on the Home tab...
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Using SUPERHATCH To Make Complicated Hatch Patterns
A very good question was asked in in the comments section of the following post about creating custom hatches [found here]. That post was about creating custom hatches using lines within a 1×1 square...
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Shortcut Keys for AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit
Near the beginning of the year a blog post here showed the links to Autodesk’s AutoCAD for Microsoft Windows and Mac’s Shortcut keys (Aliases). They have now made available a list of shortcut keys to...
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Tip: When Tracking Doesn’t Seem to Work
Here is one of the quirky things that AutoCAD does that might throw you for a loop. It involves “Tracking” whether it is “Object Snap Tracking” or “Polar Tracking” they seem to behave differently when...
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Hurricane Batch Processor Review
AutoCAD batch scripts can be powerful by themselves, but if you couple that with the ability to apply them to a multitude of drawings then it can be really powerful. I first saw the power of scripting...
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Convert 3D Revit to DWG
Just in case you need to convert a 3D Revit model to 3D AutoCAD, here ya go. It is very simple but remember to click one button to make sure you work with ACAD solids… Here is a snapshot of the Revit...
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Revit Reorganize Revit Tabs
As I have been making my transition to Revit I have a few tips that you might find helpful even though there are plenty of other Revit blogs and resources to visit – I promise to keep this blog as...
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