Many of the AutoCAD layer tools formerly known as bonus tools or express tools were added into core AutoCAD in the 2007 release. Two of these tools are Layer Delete and Layer Merge, both of which are great for getting…
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Prior to AutoCAD 2000, paper space viewports could only be rectangular. If you needed to crop or trim portions of your viewport, you had to get creative and use multiple rectangular viewports or maybe another creative trick. But ever since…
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Starting with AutoCAD 2008, you now have direct access to the Layer States Manager, without opening the LAYER dialog first. In AutoCAD 2008, click the button on the far right of the LAYERS toolbar. In AutoCAD 2009, click the ribbon…
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Sometimes while using AutoCAD, you want to delete a layer, but even after removing all entities from the layer in question, it will not purge. Hopefully the following troubleshooting will help. Causes There are really only two causes. An entity is referencing…
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