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Tweet Recently, a reader of my book, AutoCAD 2013 Bible, was reading something I wrote about the ribbon. He undocked it. (You can do that by right-clicking at the very end, in the blank gray space and choosing Undock.) Then, he clicked the X on the ribbon, which closed it. (Of course, I never recommended [...] Tweet Thanks to Tommy Holden for this tip. AutoCAD allows you to copy the command line history window to the clipboard by using the COPYHIST command. The command line history is the window just above the command line. This way you can keep track of previous commands already executed in case you want to: Repeat [...] Tweet The most obvious problem is that you can’t open a drawing. Here are some techniques to try: Rename the drawing’s BAK (backup) file by changing its filename extension to .dwg and see if you can open that. Find any temporary files (auto.sv$ by default) and rename them with a DWG extension and try to [...] Tweet AutoCAD is a complex program and it’s crucial for your work. Obviously, the better you know how to use the program, the quicker and more accurate your drawings will be. This is where the importance of education comes in. Education has two parts: Learning more about the base AutoCAD features that you use, or [...] Tweet If you would like to see where all the instances of your comp2b block are, you can select them all using the Quick Select feature from the Properties palette. This is a great technique for troubleshooting your blocks. Follow these steps: Open the Properties palette. Click the Quick Select button to open the Quick [...] Tweet How many objects are in your drawing? What are the limits and the extents of your drawing? What are the running object snaps? What’s the current elevation setting? Is FILL on or off? How much free space does your hard drive have? How much memory is free? How many places do you think you’d [...] Tweet For troubleshooting or collaborative purposes, you may need to know the named objects in your drawings, that is: Blocks Dimension styles Layers Linetypes Materials Table styles Text styles UCSs Viewports (really viewport configurations) Views Plot styles (which you see only if you’re using named plot styles) You can see all your named objects by [...] Tweet Some of you may remember the Today feature of AutoCAD 2002, which was a front-end window that allowed you to open existing files, create new files, and so on. One of its views was an alphabetical list of files, separated by the first letter of their name. Another was a listing by date. Today [...] Tweet Would you like to know in which drawings a specific file is used as an xref? Let’s say that you’re editing a drawing and you’re pretty sure that it’s used as an xref in some other drawings. Changing the drawing will change these other drawings, too. Mai Ezzat of Egypt sent in this tip [...] |
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