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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
Rename File To: PTXT.LSP
Published on: 18-Nov-2013
Downloads: 539
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Tipster Vladislav Bronin presents some uses for fields in AutoCAD files.

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Tip#: 4174
Author: Vladislav Bronin
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 29-Jul-2013
Downloads: 0
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Tipster Brad Miller shares a way to automatically update text that displays the scale value of a viewport in AutoCAD's paper space.

"We used to have issue...  Read more

Tip#: 4153
Author: Brad Miller
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 01-Jul-2013
Downloads: 0
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Frequent tipster Danny Korem shares a trick using rtext to create an automated and dynamic list of all referenced files in your AutoCAD file.

“If you are interested in...  Read more

Tip#: 4064
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 04-Feb-2013
Downloads: 0
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Frequent tipster Danny Korem offers some advice about using annotative objects while working in AutoCAD.

"I'm so accustomed to seeing annotative objects these da...  Read more

Tip#: 3867
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 23-Apr-2012
Downloads: 0
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Frequent tipster Danny Korem shares some ideas for using fields in AutoCAD.

"In many cases, you can right-click and opt for Insert Field instead of typing. Field...  Read more

Tip#: 3835
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 05-Mar-2012
Downloads: 0
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Frequent tipster Danny Korem demonstrates how using fields in AutoCAD can save time and revision work.

"In many detailed drawings, text annotations are fully or pa...  Read more

Tip#: 3659
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 12-Jun-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky and his coworker Dave Allison give us two methods for printing white text on a black background in AutoCAD.

"To ...  Read more

Tip#: 3593
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 07-Mar-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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Frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky explains how to quickly transfer notes or other text from Microsoft Word (or any other word processing ...  Read more

Tip#: 3576
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 06-Feb-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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"Insert this drawing 'stamp' at 0,0. It will display the current date, time, file name, etc. It can be exploded and edited to suit any user. This is a very useful stamp! We use it when issuing...  Read more

Tip#: 3467
Author: Jerry Frey
Rename File To: s.dwg
Published on: 09-Aug-2010
Downloads: 1227
Rating:
1
  Rated by 1 users