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I’ve been a big proponent of using associative hatches for some time now. Did you know that you can select text inside of your hatch boundary, and the hatch will create a border around this s...  Read more

Tip#: 4422
Author: Levi Connolly
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 02-Feb-2015
Downloads: 0
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This is an update to a previously posted tip, "Turn Off Scale Factor Representations," by Michael Viscetto (No. Read more

Tip#: 4338
Author: Shawn Evjen
Rename File To: ads.lsp
Published on: 14-Jul-2014
Downloads: 207
Rating:  Not Yet Rated
Tip#: 4328
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextTrim.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 395
Rating:
5
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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

Are you tired of seeing multiple scale representations of annotative objects? You can turn them off using the Read more

Tip#: 4314
Author: Michael Viscetto
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 02-Jun-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Editor's Note: In September 2014, this tip was updated and the LISP file was replaced with a new version. The tip author describes the updates...  Read more

Tip#: 4309
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: Text1MtextJust2.lsp
Published on: 17-May-2014
Downloads: 2025
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

The AutoCAD Express Tools include a routine for converting text to mtext. The only problem with that tool is that all selected text is converted into a single mtext block. Sometimes this is desirab...  Read more

Tip#: 4190
Author: Benzigar Peter
Rename File To: TMT.lsp
Published on: 22-Sep-2013
Downloads: 1122
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Alan Thompson gives us a routine to rotate AutoCAD text and mtext that is currently upside-down into a position where it can be read normally. Start by loading the LISP file, then ...  Read more

Tip#: 3972
Author: Alan Thompson
Rename File To: TextReadable.LSP
Published on: 14-Sep-2012
Downloads: 689
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

If you work with UCS rotated views in AutoCAD, you may run across text and/or mtext entities whose rotation angle is just a bit off for one reason or another. This routine from Tommy Shumpe...  Read more

Tip#: 3876
Author: Tommy Shumpert
Rename File To: rototxt.lsp,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/._rototxt.lsp
Published on: 22-Apr-2012
Downloads: 1275
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

This is a comprehensive routine that contains many AutoCAD functions related to copying text and attributes. Fortunately, tip author Robert Zipprich has provided a detailed readme ...  Read more

Tip#: 3778
Author: Robert Zipprich
Rename File To: copyatts.bmp,copyatt.bmp,COPYATT.lsp,COPYATT.txt,copyattg.bmp,copyattmap.bmp
Published on: 16-Nov-2011
Downloads: 1338
Rating:  Not Yet Rated