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To produce notes on drawing is often a tedious job that includes placing similar texts on drawings. This job can be done a lot more efficient by using a library of some sort. There are of course se...  Read more

Tip#: 4546
Author: Huib Eggen
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Published on: 28-Sep-2015
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This tip will work in AutoCAD 2013 and later versions only.

The PressPull command can be applied on bounded regions and surfaces, and it always tends to make a normal feature with respect t...  Read more

Tip#: 4462
Author: Jaiprakash Pandey
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Published on: 20-Apr-2015
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Have you ever created a base view, projected another view from the base view, then discovered you want to delete the base view and not get rid of the projected views? This tip will show you how to ...  Read more

Tip#: 4455
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 13-Apr-2015
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When creating a new part in an assembly, have you ever wanted to project geometry and not have it be adaptive? Here is a quick way to project geometry and have it be independent of the part it was ...  Read more

Tip#: 4429
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 23-Feb-2015
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Create a sketch on the face of the part to which you want to add extruded text.

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Tip#: 4333
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 07-Jul-2014
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When ballooning a 2D drawing in Autodesk Inventor, have you ever wanted to jog a leader line on a balloon (add a vertex)? In this tip, David Edward Gaskill shows you how to add man...  Read more

Tip#: 4270
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 17-Mar-2014
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Are you tired of having to align text to an object at an odd angle the old-fashioned way? With this tip from Scott Lawson, you can align text to any line or object in just a few pi...  Read more

Tip#: 4263
Author: Scott Lawson
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Published on: 24-Feb-2014
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Tipster David Edward Gaskill shares some tips for working with detail views in Autodesk Inventor.

“If you have ever created a detail view and then later move...  Read more

Tip#: 4239
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 13-Jan-2014
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CAD Manager Theresa Lowe needed a way to place a string of text in AutoCAD piping drawings, so she created this pipe text LISP routine.

"I created this routin...  Read more

Tip#: 4212
Author: Theresa Lowe
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Published on: 18-Nov-2013
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Tipster Vladislav Bronin presents some uses for fields in AutoCAD files.

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Tip#: 4174
Author: Vladislav Bronin
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Published on: 29-Jul-2013
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