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Have you ever added a dimension that does not fit in between other dimensions and wanted to add a leader and pull the dimension away from its placed location? This tip will show you an easy way to ...  Read more

Tip#: 4564
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 23-Nov-2015
Downloads: 0
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Kent Cooper is back this month with a routine to create Lamé curves in AutoCAD, otherwise known as superellipses. A superellipse is a geometric figure defined as documented Read more

Tip#: 4456
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LameCurve.lsp
Published on: 15-Apr-2015
Downloads: 458
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Regarding the multileader as text or mtext, I recommend that everyone adopt the multileader as the ultimate way to introduce annotations to DWGs. First, you can create a no-leader, no-frame multile...  Read more

Tip#: 4427
Author: Danny Korem
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Published on: 23-Feb-2015
Downloads: 0
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Here is a tip that shows how to change a balloon style on a single balloon, which gives you the ability to have several types of balloons in a drawing.
Right-click the balloon and select Ed...  Read more

Tip#: 4394
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 17-Nov-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated
Tip#: 4328
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextTrim.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 395
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

This routine is an alternate to “Label Entity with Break,” also from Kent Cooper. That tip inserts a text string into an entity by physically breaking the entity. This ...  Read more

Tip#: 4329
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextMask.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 341
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

David Gaskill sent this handy Inventor tip that shows how to add a custom part to your parts list and balloon it on your drawing.

Have you ever had to add a part to a drawi...  Read more

Tip#: 4303
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 12-May-2014
Downloads: 0
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This routine from Theresa Lowe is based on a 19-year-old routine that draws a revision cloud in AutoCAD. The original Read more

Tip#: 4290
Author: Theresa Lowe
Rename File To: Revision/,Revision/AUTOCLOUD.LSP,Revision/REVISION.dwg
Published on: 13-Apr-2014
Downloads: 611
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

In this tip, James J. Olszewski explains the benefits of adjusting the fuzz distance to eliminate gaps between polyline segments in AutoCAD.

This is a Polyline Edi...  Read more

Tip#: 4284
Author: James Olszewski
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Published on: 07-Apr-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Levi Connolly sent us two AutoCAD tips in one. Use them together, as Levi does, or separately as needed.

The first is the Blend command. Blend creates a spline tha...  Read more

Tip#: 4264
Author: Levi Connolly
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Published on: 03-Mar-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated