by Mark | Apr 15, 2012 | Featured, Power Tools, The Interface
A great time-saving AutoCAD tool that is under-appreciated is Quick Select. With this tool you can select all objects having a property that you specify, and the options for specifying that property are practically endless. Quick Select works on . . .
by Mark | Mar 10, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, Quality Control
Here’s a CAD tip for anyone who has experienced having a hatch pattern cover up linework in a drawing, when you want the linework to display “in front of” the hatch pattern. This issue often comes up in xreffed drawings, but may also affect “live” drawings.
by Mark | Mar 5, 2012 | Basics---Better, Featured, The Interface
Did you know that the SHIFT key can be used to temporarily turn Ortho mode on and off? Here’s how…
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.
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 . . .