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Brock Narum sent this background mask procedure that he uses in AutoCAD 2009. "Select the mtext and go to the Properties tool palette. In the palette under Text, there is a Background Mask opt... Read more
Bill Karkula offered this tip for AutoCAD 2009: "Often I have to do a count of various blocks in a drawing. For example, my hospital has more than 4500 rooms. Of course, each has a door, many ... Read more
Leonid Nemirovsky sent in this tip for AutoCAD 2009. "In MTEXT windows, if you need to superscript or subscript any number of characters (for examp... Read more
Tip Patrol member Billy Wooten shared a couple of AutoCAD 2009 tips for those of you who are thinking of making the jump. He reports that when upgrading to 2009, the Migration Utility won't fully l... Read more
Shawn Evjen was inspired by another tip from Hot Tip Harry to write a routine that converts dimensions from feet/inches to just inches. ShortArchDims (SAD) is a routine I wrote last night to ... Read more
Carole Hibbard works in the GIS field so she does a lot of mapping in CAD and sent us this tip on inserting Xrefs. Back around the 2004 release of AutoCAD Land Desktop, I had a problem when I ... Read more
Eli Kay got an idea for a LISP routine similar to the AutoCAD command, Match Properties to “match” text in a drawing. MATCH TEXT (MAT.LSP) will ask the user for a primary text obj... Read more
Tip#: 3090
Author: Eli Kay
Rename File To: MAT.LSP/,MAT.LSP/.DS_Store,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/MAT.LSP/,__MACOSX/MAT.LSP/._.DS_Store,MAT.LSP/ACA-Trap.LSP,MAT.LSP/mat.LSP
Jonathan Jonas sent us this tip about fully purging a file. Purge All doesn't purge all! It came to my attention this morning after dealing with screen glitches in AutoCAD 2008 and trying to figure... Read more
Brock Narum wrote: "I have been using dynamic blocks since they were introduced, but I just recently ran into a problem on AutoCAD 2009. I did some research and found dynamic blocks that do no... Read more
Leonid Nemirovsky sent this tip for making mtext work in a familiar way in AutoCAD 2009 with the Text Formatting toolbar when the ribbon is on and active. Simply set the MTEXTTOOLBAR variable to 1.... Read more