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This tip from David Edward Gaskill illustrates how to attach text to views in Inventor.

Have you ever added text to an IDW or DWG file in Inventor and moved the view, only ...  Read more

Tip#: 4283
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 31-Mar-2014
Downloads: 0
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Designer and CAD coordinator Robert L. Zipprich shares a tip on setting the MIRRTEXT system variable in AutoCAD.

“Do you know anyone who likes to read backward...  Read more

Tip#: 3947
Author: Robert Zipprich
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Published on: 06-Aug-2012
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Frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky advises us on some of the differences between single-line and multi-line text in AutoCAD. He discusses dealing with justifications after mirrorin...  Read more

Tip#: 3435
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
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Published on: 07-Jun-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3
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Designer Kendra Hathaway sends a tip for AutoCAD Electrical users who need a faster way to convert the width of mtext.

"Sometimes we receive drawings with the 1.0 width font and hav...  Read more

Tip#: 3259
Author: Kendra Hathaway
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Published on: 16-Aug-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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Gopal Ramesh sent us a routine he uses to perform basic arithmetic functions in AutoCAD by selecting text he wants added or subtracted.

"This command, Txtcalc, allows yo...  Read more

Tip#: 3211
Author: Gopal Ramesh
Rename File To: TXTCALC.LSP,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/._TXTCALC.LSP
Published on: 07-Jun-2009
Downloads: 996
Rating:
1
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Robert Zipprich also shared this collection of routines that he uses to manipulate text in his drawings.

TXTAPP.LSP: Appends a second text string to the end of the fir...  Read more

Tip#: 3206
Author: Robert Zipprich
Rename File To: zipprich/,zipprich/.DS_Store,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/zipprich/,__MACOSX/zipprich/._.DS_Store,zipprich/PREFIX.LSP,__MACOSX/zipprich/._PREFIX.LSP,zipprich/TEXTDUMP.LSP,__MACOSX/zipprich/._TEXTDUMP.LSP,zipprich/TXTAPP.LSP,__MACOSX/zipprich/._TXTAPP.LSP,zipprich/TXTUPCASE.LSP,__MACOSX/zipprich/._TXTUPCASE.LSP,__MACOSX/._zipprich
Published on: 31-May-2009
Downloads: 545
Rating:
3
  Rated by 1 users

Rodney Barnard uses the Simplex font for text because it looks good at all scales and in paper space – plus, nearly everyone has it, so it won’t look weird on another s...  Read more

Tip#: 3198
Author: Rodney Barnard
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Published on: 10-May-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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Andria Lynch shares a chart she produced that gives the proper size of text to use for different drawing scales.

“Attached is a handy chart for sizing text in standard...  Read more

Tip#: 3200
Author: Andria Lynch
Rename File To: Scale Factors.xls,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/._Scale Factors.xls
Published on: 10-May-2009
Downloads: 6207
Rating:
4
  Rated by 3 users

This simple LISP command named Symb1 that displays all the upper ASCII characters in a drawing for your reference. You can then use "%" with the ASCII code number inside text to access th...  Read more

Tip#: 3037
Author: Joseph Floss
Rename File To: SYMB1.LSP
Published on: 01-Dec-2008
Downloads: 341
Rating:
4
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Replace Text with Incremental Value replaces text strings with an incrementing value, very useful for labeling columns and rows in a grid. After loading the LSP file, type Counter to activate the text...  Read more
Tip#: 3023
Author: Eric Brown
Rename File To: COUNTER.LSP
Published on: 18-Nov-2008
Downloads: 1437
Rating:
4
  Rated by 2 users