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To produce notes on drawing is often a tedious job that includes placing similar texts on drawings. This job can be done a lot more efficient by using a library of some sort. There are of course se...  Read more

Tip#: 4546
Author: Huib Eggen
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Published on: 28-Sep-2015
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Tip#: 4468
Author: Nick Antonov
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Published on: 04-May-2015
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In my role at my place of work I get drawings from multiple sources that I have to take in and standardize to our format. Sometimes that includes swapping out blocks from the received file to our b...  Read more

Tip#: 4425
Author: Levi Connolly
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Published on: 09-Feb-2015
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This AutoCAD routine by Ramakrishna Acharya allows you to insert sequentially numbered blocks. The supplied block is a circle with a number in the center. After you load the LISP f...  Read more

Tip#: 4419
Author: Ramakrishna Acharya
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Published on: 26-Jan-2015
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Riding on the coattails of Levi Connolly’s tip #4374 regarding setting the default text for attributed...  Read more

Tip#: 4378
Author: Michael Viscetto
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Published on: 13-Oct-2014
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5
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Do you ever get tired of having to fill out the attributes in an attributed block every time it's inserted into a drawing? Here's how to eliminate this when you are creating the block. Firs...  Read more

Tip#: 4374
Author: Levi Connolly
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Published on: 29-Sep-2014
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Create a sketch on the face of the part to which you want to add extruded text.

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Tip#: 4333
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 07-Jul-2014
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The commands Ncopy and Clip and the FRAME variable work with Xrefs, but they also work with blocks. Ncopy works with blocks the same way as with an Xref: start the command, pick individual objects,...  Read more

Tip#: 4315
Author: Kent Elrod
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Published on: 02-Jun-2014
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Levi Connolly shares this AutoCAD tip for how to control the line space factor on a multiline attributed block.

The line space factor can be increased easily by setting the...  Read more

Tip#: 4300
Author: Levi Connolly
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Published on: 05-May-2014
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5
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When ballooning a 2D drawing in Autodesk Inventor, have you ever wanted to jog a leader line on a balloon (add a vertex)? In this tip, David Edward Gaskill shows you how to add man...  Read more

Tip#: 4270
Author: David Gaskill
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Published on: 17-Mar-2014
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