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AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible The most comprehensive AutoCAD book around!   | You should have at least 1 text style for your dimensions and perhaps a text style for each dimension style. When you create a dimension style, you can create a text style from within the New Dimension Style dialog box. On the Text tab, click the Ellipsis button as shown here. The Text Style […] Xrefs (external references) let you view another drawing within your current drawing without actually inserting that other drawing. Why use xrefs? Xrefs keep your drawing smaller. Each time you open a drawing, AutoCAD loads a current copy of the xref, so that you always have the most updated version. The drawing contains a link to […] You can auto-fill data in an AutoCAD table like you can in an Excel spreadsheet. This makes it easy to copy data along a row or column and to automatically create incremental data, such as consecutive numbers. To auto-fill cell data, click in a cell that you’ve already filled with a value. Click and drag […] I’ve written posts about how to create specific types of dynamic blocks and about some of their features, but I’ve never explained when and why you would use a dynamic block. If you have a block library that contains variations on an object or component and you insert them at various scales and rotations angles, […] This is a guest post by Sanjay Kulkarni, an AutoCAD programmer. This post describes the method to load an AutoLISP program in an open drawing. Some basic & fundamental information before we move to the procedure An AutoLISP program runs inside (in the same workspace of) an open drawing. Therefore it is necessary to load […] When you trim objects, the first prompt asks you for a cutting edge. Gerardo Martinez e-mailed me a reminder that you can press Enter (or right-click, depending on your right-click settings) to specify all objects as potential cutting edges. Then you just select the part of the object that you want to trim and AutoCAD […] This is a guest post by Sanjay Kulkarni, an AutoCAD programmer. You can read more about him at the end of this post. In an earlier post, Ellen showed how to align a rectangle with a line on the fly. You can easily create the same effect using AutoLISP. This AutoLISP routine is simple, and […] You may have objects on the wrong layer–in fact, you may not want to even keep the layer those objects are on. The solution is the LAYMRG command. This is a guest post by Will Forty, who has a great blog called HowToAutoCAD.com. He writes: “I was recently asked if there was a quick way […] Bill Walker sent me the following tip. Sometimes you need to cut out part of one 3D object to fit another object. For example, in tongue & grove construction, you need to cut out the groove to fit the tongue. You can make this process easy with an option of the INTERFERE command. Follow these […] A reader of my book, AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT Bible (the 2010 version) wrote me the following: “Whenever the mouse crosshairs land on a line in a drawing, a small ‘window’ appears, listing Line. Color. By layer Layer. Plan Linetype. Continuous This is extremely annoying and I can’t see how I can prevent this entirely […] | Top 25 Productivity Tips Every AutoCAD® User Should Know
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