[Search tip detail and code files using keywords, tip number, author name, etc ]
 
Related CAD Tips
To download multiple tips, check desired boxes and click the Download Selected button.
To tag a tip (or tips) for ease in organizing and identifying your favorites, check desired boxes and click the Tag Selected box (registered users only).
For tips to function correctly, you must ensure that the downloaded file name matches the file name displayed in the Rename File To field. Please rename downloaded files when necessary.

Have you ever added a dimension that does not fit in between other dimensions and wanted to add a leader and pull the dimension away from its placed location? This tip will show you an easy way to ...  Read more

Tip#: 4564
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 23-Nov-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Regarding the multileader as text or mtext, I recommend that everyone adopt the multileader as the ultimate way to introduce annotations to DWGs. First, you can create a no-leader, no-frame multile...  Read more

Tip#: 4427
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 23-Feb-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Here is a tip that shows how to change a balloon style on a single balloon, which gives you the ability to have several types of balloons in a drawing.
Right-click the balloon and select Ed...  Read more

Tip#: 4394
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 17-Nov-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

David Gaskill sent this handy Inventor tip that shows how to add a custom part to your parts list and balloon it on your drawing.

Have you ever had to add a part to a drawi...  Read more

Tip#: 4303
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 12-May-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Tipster Maria Tzanetakou reminds us that many AutoCAD commands have more options available to us after we start the command.

"Old-fashioned leaders are still us...  Read more

Tip#: 4040
Author: Maria Tzanetakou
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 07-Jan-2013
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3
  Rated by 1 users

Frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky shares a small LISP routine that adds a tilde to a leader arrowhead in AutoCAD.

"This LISP macro is extremely simple, but it w...  Read more

Tip#: 3922
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
Rename File To: WGL.dwg, wgl.lsp
Published on: 25-Jun-2012
Downloads: 422
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky shares a simple method he uses as an alternative to mleaders in AutoCAD.

"First turn o...  Read more

Tip#: 3652
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 22-May-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Senior CAD Manager Richard Navales Lim shares an AutoCAD tip using annotated scaled leaders to create linework.

"I have used annotation scale since its introduction...  Read more

Tip#: 3578
Author: Richard Navales Lim
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 13-Feb-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3.666665
  Rated by 3 users

Bijoy Manoharan submits a LISP routine to label the station and elevation in a civil engineering profile view. Although applications like AutoCAD Civil 3D include this functionalit...  Read more

Tip#: 3563
Author: Bijoy Manoharan
Rename File To: Sta-Elev/,Sta-Elev/0111Sta-Elev-Lg.jpg,Sta-Elev/Sta-Elev.lsp
Published on: 15-Jan-2011
Downloads: 1095
Rating:
3
  Rated by 2 users

Technologist James E. Bainbridge shares an AutoCAD Express Tool that gets your text and leaders back together again.

"Occasionally, I still have the need to place ...  Read more

Tip#: 3535
Author: James Bainbridge
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 15-Nov-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users