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Editor's Note: The macro code has been revised per the reader comments. Our apologies for the confusion. (9/30/15)

I like to make buttons for things I do over and over, if only...  Read more

Tip#: 4533
Author: Jerri Thompson
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Published on: 31-Aug-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

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

Tip#: 4472
Author: Michael Partenheimer
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Published on: 11-May-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

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
Published on: 30-Mar-2015
Downloads: 522
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

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

Tip#: 4399
Author: Jim Himes
Rename File To: LAYER-CONTROLS.LSP
Published on: 23-Nov-2014
Downloads: 157
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

I’d like to revive Cadalyst CAD Tip #3761, contributed by David Shultz. I use the LayMrg command quite often for a quick dra...  Read more

Tip#: 4363
Author: Levi Connolly
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 15-Sep-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

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

Tip#: 4364
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: DYNAMIC-VPLAYER.LSP
Published on: 14-Sep-2014
Downloads: 595
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

James Maeding sent in these nice examples of defining LISP functions on the fly. One of the two examples provided defines the LISP functions L1, L2, L3 … L255 used to create...  Read more

Tip#: 4348
Author: James Maeding
Rename File To: func1.lsp
Published on: 26-Jul-2014
Downloads: 381
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Reference drawing layers can be modified in the parent drawing and changes to color, linetype, and other properties are maintained as long as the system variable Visretain is set to 1. If you want ...  Read more

Tip#: 4330
Author: Benzigar Peter
Rename File To: xrecol.lsp
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 593
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Levi Connolly shares this time-saving AutoCAD tip.

I execute most of my AutoCAD commands from the keyboard. Even though there are buttons that do most of these macros, I ge...  Read more

Tip#: 4305
Author: Levi Connolly
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 19-May-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Cooper authored CAD Tip No. 3779, which is an improved Layer Isolate/Unisolate command for AutoCAD. Kent recently received a request to provide a similar routine that uses Fre...  Read more

Tip#: 4291
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LayerIsolateFreezeThaw.lsp
Published on: 13-Apr-2014
Downloads: 628
Rating:  Not Yet Rated