Have you ever wondered about when an AutoCAD command was introduced or modified? Maybe you are using a not-so-current version and you are wondering why a certain command does not work, or works differently. Autodesk publishes a list of new…
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If you use the system variables CDATE or DATE in your autolisp code in AutoCAD 2017 or later, you should know that Autodesk made an (at the time) undocumented change to these system variables. Prior to 2017 these sysvars returned…
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Long time AutoCAD users will probably know about all of these, but let’s not forget, there are new AutoCAD users every day out there who probably run into issues such as these – all of which have an easy fix….
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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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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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Have you ever set a system variable and then you are working along and that sysvar is changed to a different value? Many people will ask how or why it “changed itself”, which obviously it can’t do. Of course what is…
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