C’mon AutoCAD…. why do you have so much trouble with relative xref paths? I add a DWG xref and you tell me…. So I choose Full Path and proceed to finish attaching the DWG. Then I right-click on the DWG…
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If you’ve been paying attention to the CAD world lately, you might know that Autodesk will stop selling perpetual licenses for many of its products on Jan 31, 2016. This has triggered a lot of negative feedback, some of it…
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There is an issue with Civil 3D 2015 that has cropped up for several users even those with the latest service pack. The issue occurs when you have multiple drawings open in Civil 3D. You may find that when you…
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So you open an AutoCAD .DWG file and you notice some of the text does not look like you expect. Maybe a paragraph that is supposed to show up with a script font like FreeStyle Script, is instead showing up…
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A common problem we see in Civil 3D is hard to read text in the Text Component Editor, as shown here. This can be caused by a feature in Windows called ClearText. Here is how to change that setting. Note that…
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If you are writing a lisp routine and you have to ask the user for a new symbol table name, such as the name of a layer or dimstyle, how can you make sure the user gives you a valid…
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If you have not started working on yours, it’s probably too late now. But if you have been preparing class proposals for AU2015, today is the deadline for getting those submitted! Why speak at AU? Tips on speaking at AU….
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There is little sense in preparing a tutorial on creating custom AutoCAD linetypes, because there are dozens of those already available. One of those can be found here in part 1 and part 2. In the meantime, the easiest way to…
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In a previous post, we described how to “explode” complex linetypes into individual line segments. Many people have a need to explode Text or Mtext for various reasons, one of which might be to ensure the text font cannot change…
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Cursor badges are little icons that appear near the cursor to show you what command is active. They were introduced in AutoCAD 2015 and immediately started generating negative feedback, mainly because there was no way to turn them off. Usually…
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