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Sometimes when you create a detail view and then later move the base view that the detail is associated with, you find that your detail view is not where you expected it to be. Here is a way to cor...  Read more

Tip#: 4358
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 08-Sep-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Tawfik Shehata shares how to locate specific attributed blocks in your AutoCAD drawing.

"The Find and Replace command in AutoCAD can do more than just finding...  Read more

Tip#: 4196
Author: Tawfik Shehata
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 23-Sep-2013
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.5
  Rated by 2 users

Frequent contributor Matt Sibum is back with a selection-based find-and-replace routine for text and mtext in AutoCAD. His routine prompts you to select a single text or mtext obje...  Read more

Tip#: 4188
Author: Matt Sibum
Rename File To: matchtextall.lsp
Published on: 22-Sep-2013
Downloads: 204
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Tip guru Leonid Nemirovsky shares a method for dealing with strict clients who limit what you can do with layers in AutoCAD files.

"Our client is very strict about laye...  Read more

Tip#: 4058
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
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Published on: 28-Jan-2013
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Civil designer Sam J. Lucido discusses using AutoCAD's Find command to help fix errors in your drawing annotations.

"The Find command can replace incorrectly spe...  Read more

Tip#: 3869
Author: Samuel Lucido
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Published on: 23-Apr-2012
Downloads: 0
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Raymond Rizkallah shares with us two routines he wrote to find and select annotative objects in a drawing.

"FIND-ANNO.LSP is a utility to filter annotative objects...  Read more

Tip#: 3389
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: FIND-ANNO.LSP
Published on: 12-Apr-2010
Downloads: 788
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Designer Robert Zipprich sends a method to deal with text that you can’t see or even select. "The Burst command from the Express Tools family (Explode Attributes to Text) has a bug that ...  Read more

Tip#: 3205
Author: Robert Zipprich
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 31-May-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Tip 2270: Freeze Layers Currently Not Visible
In an attempt to make drawings regenerate faster, Gordon Reichhardt developed Freeze Layers Currently Not Visible. Load the LISP code and type Frz...  Read more

Tip#: 2270
Author: Gordon Reichhardt
Rename File To: Tip 2270: FRZALLBUTVIS.LSP
Published on: 01-Feb-2008
Downloads: 406
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Tips 2252 and 2253: Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze
The next two tips -- Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze, come from Francis Gamotis; however, he notes that coworkers ...  Read more

Tip#: 2253
Author: Francis Gamotis
Rename File To: Tip 2253: Frzx.lsp
Published on: 01-Nov-2007
Downloads: 353
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Tips 2252 and 2253: Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze
The next two tips -- Object's Layer Off and Object's Layer Freeze, come from Francis Gamotis; however, he notes that coworkers ...  Read more

Tip#: 2252
Author: Francis Gamotis
Rename File To: Tip 2252: OFFX.lsp
Published on: 01-Nov-2007
Downloads: 361
Rating:
3.5
  Rated by 2 users