Even though we are in the era of the Ribbon, you may still want to use certain toolbars. Here are 3 ways to access toolbars If you have ANY docked toolbar visible, right click in an empty toolbar area (but…
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Here is a unique situation that I have run across a few times recently. We have one shape file that we use for all of our complex linetypes. It’s name is “my-custom,shx”. Suddenly one day, a user cannot load linetypes,…
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Here is a quick tip on drawing tangent lines and arcs. Before getting started, you can easily drawing tangent arc and line segments when using POLYLINEs, but we are going to discuss using plain LINE and ARC entities. Let’s say…
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Image Courtesy Autodesk I was excited to be invited to the Autodesk Media Summit last week at the Autodesk Gallery at Market One, in San Francisco. I arrived on Monday evening, a little late for the pre-event get together hosted…
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As you have may have already heard (or predicted because it’s late March), AutoCAD 2013 has been launched. Below is our annual overview of what’s new in this version. We have done this for the past 4 versions including AutoCAD…
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Updated for AutoCAD 2018 Here are links to all of the popular series of Lynn Allen’s Tips and Tricks booklets for various releases of AutoCAD. I have the physical collection of these and still refer to them when I need…
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If you ever need to mask part of an image using a circle, you might know that neither WIPEOUT or IMAGECLIP support the selection of a circle. One way to work around this is to use the POLYGON command to…
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What could be more simple than the Zoom command, right? Many people I see primarily use the center mouse wheel for zooming and rarely use other zoom options. However, there may be times when you want to zoom to a…
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For some reason lately, I have been running into an obscure, undocumented system variable that is wrecking havoc on certain AutoCAD commands, or so it may seem. Some of you may have heard of QAFLAGS. I first ran across it…
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If you are importing ESRI SHP files that contain closed objects using the MAPIMPORT command, and you end up with filled MPOLYGON objects instead of plain old closed polylines, read on…. First, you can instruct MAP to import closed polylines…
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