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Prolific contributor Kent Cooper once again came to the rescue for someone in the Autodesk forums, and he is sharing the result here. This routine will allow you to interate the layer table in alph... Read more
Michael submits this routine for anyone wishing to export a list of layers from the current drawing to a text file. He uses this to quickly export layers for later analysis and makes note that you ... Read more
I find AutoCAD's New Layer Notification tool extremely useful. Many of our projects involve multiple users in separate office locations, and communication regarding xref edits sometimes is not ... Read more
Frequent contributor Michael Partenheimer notes that the National CAD Standard (NCS) no longer associates a color to a plot thickness. He has submitted three separate but related L... Read more
Tip#: 4446
Author: Michael Partenheimer
Rename File To: LayerColorUtilities/,LayerColorUtilities/Color2lineweight.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/Lineweight2Color.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/NCSpstyle2lineweight.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/NCSv5.stb
I have a pet peeve: opening a drawing from someone else and finding that the layers are inaccurate, or even worse, nonexistent! I use the SelectSimilar command in AutoCAD to help me repair such iss... Read more
Jim Himes shares two similar routines with us this month: The first turns off all frozen layers in AutoCAD, and the second one freezes any layers that are turned off. This might so... Read more
Raymond Rizkillah's latest routine includes a set of macros to dynamically control layer visibility in an AutoCAD drawing with multiple xrefs, without involving the Layer Prope... Read more