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Keeping Caps ON ALL THE TIME

by Mark | Feb 26, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Settings and Options

If you want to make a setting that forces all letters typed in multitext objects to be capital letters, just open a multitext object, and while you are in the multitext editor, right-click to get the shortcut menu, and click on AutoCAPS.

Turning raster image frames on and off

by Mark | Feb 26, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Info Transfer, Settings and Options

Raster images such as JPEGs and TIFFs can be imported into AutoCAD easily using the Attach tool in the Insert tab/ Reference panel. When you import an image file, it has a frame around it. This frame can be turned on or off . . .

Texting the grid, and gridding the text

by Mark | Feb 25, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured

Here is a tip about a truly useful application of the grid feature in AutoCAD–for organizing text objects in a column.

Fill it up! The screen, that is.

by Mark | Jan 22, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, The Interface

Today’s AutoCAD tip is to always maximize your AutoCAD window so that it completely fills the monitor screen. I recommend that you do this, or verify that it is automatically done, immediately each time you open AutoCAD.

Looking at the keyboard — Part 1

Looking at the keyboard — Part 1

by Mark | Jan 14, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, The Human Side, The Interface

A “key” part of the AutoCAD user’s hardware, and a vital part of the CAD interface, is the keyboard. The computer keyboard is, in many ways, an archaic piece of equipment. Look at it and you can almost imagine little steel levers coming down from the underside of each key, like in the antique Remington typewriters.

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