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Have you ever worked on an Inventor drawing that someone else overrode dimensions on? This tip will show you a...  Read more

Tip#: 4574
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 11-Jan-2016
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You can set the dimensional entities — such as dimension text, dimension line, and dimension extension line — to any color with these variable commands. To change the color of dimension...  Read more

Tip#: 4573
Author: Ramakrishna Acharya
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Published on: 11-Jan-2016
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3
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Have you ever had a small dimension where the text was bleeding into the arrowhead? With multi-function grips you have the option to flip the arrowhead to the other side of the dimension extension ...  Read more

Tip#: 4566
Author: Joey Price
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Published on: 07-Dec-2015
Downloads: 0
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Raymond Rizkallah submits a tiny but very useful routine. If you work with multiple drawings at the same time and they are in various UCSs, this is the routine for you. This allows you to copy and ...  Read more

Tip#: 4542
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: ABSOLUTE-CopyPaste.LSP
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 420
Rating:
5
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Kent Cooper has come up with a very nice routine for drawing flexible conduit or ducting. The image below illustrates how the command works with various object types. If you use an existing object ...  Read more

Tip#: 4541
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: FlexSpline.lsp
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 1248
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Long-time contributor Raymond Rizkallah has created this routine that will allow you to create various shaped revision clouds that are automatically placed on a unique layer whose name is composed ...  Read more

Tip#: 4540
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: DATED-CLOUDS.lsp
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 323
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Frequent tipster Kent Cooper is back with yet another solution from a request via the Autodesk forums. MultiLineCloseOpen.lsp includes two commands, MLC and MLO.  MLC stands for MultiLine Clos...  Read more

Tip#: 4539
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: MultilineCloseOpen.lsp
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 211
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

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Tip#: 4531
Author: Danny Korem
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Published on: 31-Aug-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:
1
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Easily change a selected dimstyle in an Autodesk Inventor 2016 drawing.

First: Create a new dimstyle and place a new dimension.

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Tip#: 4532
Author: Alex Kaplan
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Published on: 31-Aug-2015
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Typically AutoCAD's Burst command is used to explode blocks with attributes, converting the attributes to text. But if you explode a block where objects inside the block are set to layer 0, the...  Read more

Tip#: 4528
Author: Matt Sibum
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Published on: 24-Aug-2015
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Rating:
4
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