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In Autodesk Inventor, have you ever wanted to open the IDW or DWG of a part while you are in the part? Or have you ever wanted to open the part when in the IDW or DWG?

Tip#: 4470
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 11-May-2015
Downloads: 0
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Editor's Note: This tip was updated in July 2015. The original version was restricted to xrefs only, the author notes, but ordinary blocks can also be XClipped, so the upda...  Read more

Tip#: 4447
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: XClipID-2.lsp
Published on: 30-Mar-2015
Downloads: 181
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Cooper created this AutoCAD function in response to a question in the Autodesk customization forums. It's meant to be used or called from other LISP code with two argument...  Read more

Tip#: 4417
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: SigFig.lsp
Published on: 26-Jan-2015
Downloads: 165
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

This tip from frequent contributor Kent Cooper is used to draw polynomial functions on the current layer in AutoCAD. The routine will draw the curve defined by a polynomial functio...  Read more

Tip#: 4416
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: PolynomialFunction.lsp
Published on: 26-Jan-2015
Downloads: 1578
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

If you have a startup routine that sets certain LISP variables, and your fields point to these variables, it's possible that your fields won't get updated when you think they should.

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Tip#: 4380
Author: Andrea Andreetti
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Published on: 20-Oct-2014
Downloads: 0
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Do you ever have to send AutoCAD drawings with xrefs? Here is a tip for combining all the xref files into one file to make sending them easier.

While in a drawing with xrefs, activ...  Read more

Tip#: 4383
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 20-Oct-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
2
  Rated by 3 users

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

Matt Sibum has created a routine to quickly unload and reload external reference drawings. This can be used for isolation of xrefs, and it is very fast to use. After you load the L...  Read more

Tip#: 4310
Author: Matt Sibum
Rename File To: getxref.lsp
Published on: 17-May-2014
Downloads: 383
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Here, frequent tipster Danny Korem shares a multitude of AutoCAD tips regarding file sharing for the purpose of file referencing.

Most of AutoCAD’s users work as a pa...  Read more

Tip#: 4304
Author: Danny Korem
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Published on: 12-May-2014
Downloads: 0
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R. Clayton Harrison sent this handy AutoCAD tip.

I’ve been using Ncopy for some time now. It allows you to copy objects nested within an Xref. I nearly always want th...  Read more

Tip#: 4297
Author: R. Clayton Harrison
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Published on: 28-Apr-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
5
  Rated by 2 users