If you have ever received a paper plot or legal description of a parcel or tract of land, and you need to recreate this geometry in AutoCAD, but were not sure how to enter the bearings, distances, and curve data,…
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Shaan Hurley has some tools linked on this page that are said to work with AutoCAD 2005 and 2006, but may work with other versions too. The tools from noliturbare.com should work with any version and are stand alone tools for printing CTB/STB…
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Here is one way to create a field linked to an object. For example, this could be used if you wanted to write your own program to label the area of closed polylines, but you want to use a dynamic…
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Here is a tip on how to find all the variables in your lisp file. You can use this tip on existing lisp functions or on new ones you are writing. Normally when you are in the middle of writing…
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This has proven to be a popular page, so I thought I would re-post it at the top, with one corrected URL, and a few more applications I have run across. The FREE Viewer(s) are: Free PLT Viewer: HP-GL/2, PNG,…
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It’s easy to find what drawings are xref’ed into your drawing, but how do you find what drawings your drawing is xref’ed in to? Ellen Finkelstein has posted a great tip on www.ellenfinkelstein.com regarding how to do this. Note that…
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If you are using Raster Design (ARD), take a few minutes and explore the ARD Options dialog (command name IOPTIONS). We frequently edit raster images using Raster Design (ARD) by merging vector linework back into the raster image. In almost…
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If you are working in the VBA editor and are frustrated because the scroll button on your mouse does not scroll, then pick up this freebie called FreeWheel and drop it in your Windows Start Menu in the startup group….
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If you need the ability to launch a PDF file from a menu macro, lisp file, or VBA routine, check out the code shown below. This will launch the PDF using the default registered application, just as if you had…
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This is the one new addition to 2006 that most of my users either really love or really dislike. On the other hand, I don’t really care one way or the other since I do 99% of my zooming and…
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