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Cadalyst tip reviewer Brian Benton shares two methods that can be used to remove formatting from AutoCAD text objects.

"AutoCAD users will often format multiline text ob...  Read more

Tip#: 4133
Author: Brian Benton
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Published on: 10-Jun-2013
Downloads: 0
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Jeremy Reimherr, a lead CAD designer, shared this tip about how to change an AutoCAD text object justification setting and keep the text in the same location.

"H...  Read more

Tip#: 4003
Author: Jeremy Reimherr
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Published on: 22-Oct-2012
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3
  Rated by 2 users

Tawfik Shehata sent us a tip about adding annotation scales to AutoCAD objects.

"If you are working on a drawing with multiple xrefs attached to it, and you need...  Read more

Tip#: 3950
Author: Tawfik Shehata
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Published on: 13-Aug-2012
Downloads: 0
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

Rebekah S. Wolf, a CADD technician, shares a tip for managing text errors in AutoCAD.

"I work with a lot of labels and notes. A great way to avoid spelling mista...  Read more

Tip#: 3908
Author: Rebekah Wolf
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Published on: 11-Jun-2012
Downloads: 0
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This small routine from Theodorus Winata will help you scale multiple text and/or mtext entities individually about their insertion point in AutoCAD. Load the LISP file, type in th...  Read more

Tip#: 3817
Author: Theodorus Winata
Rename File To: SMT.lsp
Published on: 18-Feb-2012
Downloads: 723
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Mary E. Kipp sends us a tip about a text setting in AutoCAD that will enable you to mirror objects without mirroring their text — or to flip the text backward, if you choose....  Read more

Tip#: 3692
Author: Mary E. Kipp
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Published on: 25-Jul-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Engineering Technician Hayden Clarke sends us a time-saving tip about working with the scale settings for annotative objects in AutoCAD.

"To quickly change, remove...  Read more

Tip#: 3617
Author: Hayden Clarke
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Published on: 10-Apr-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
2
  Rated by 1 users

Designer Carol McKeough shows us how to create text in AutoCAD that is formatted to be either a superscript or a subscript.

"I picked up this great tip for subscrip...  Read more

Tip#: 3557
Author: Carol McKeough
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Published on: 09-Jan-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
1
  Rated by 1 users

Tipster Bob McCue describes a way to align your text objects with a line or other object in AutoCAD.

"Orienting text to a line or an object is simple with the TOri...  Read more

Tip#: 3554
Author: Bob McCue
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Published on: 03-Jan-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.5
  Rated by 2 users

Kevin Land can't stand "jumping" text when he's working in AutoCAD, and he's found a way to prevent it.
 
"I hate it when text moves, when all I wante...  Read more

Tip#: 3517
Author: Kevin Land
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Published on: 25-Oct-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.333335
  Rated by 3 users