You can feel the excitement in the air…it’s Autodesk upgrade time!! IT and CAD managers are on caffeine overload, CAD techs are hesitant to turn on their machines for fear of what may have changed. Project managers assume that you…
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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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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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Recently we ran into an issue with our title blocks. We had a company logo that had originally been created as an AutoCAD block using hatch, plines and splines. The .DWG was linked into our Revit title blocks and all…
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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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Since the dawn of AutoCAD, the debate has raged on regarding drawing setup and project management. Model space versus paper space drafting. External references…yay or nay. Truth is…there really isn’t a right or wrong answer. One would think though, that…
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AutoCAD 2015 actually introduced what they call Ribbon Galleries, which are graphical drop-downs showing previews for items such as blocks, dimstyles, mleaderstyles, tablestyles, etc. Although it sounds like a good idea in theory, in practice these gallery views proved to…
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Have you ever wanted to print a portion of, or even an entire drawing with a black background? It’s not hard, just follow these steps. Working in model space, if your background color is black, change it temporarily to something…
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