There may be times when you would want to turn on/off the dialog box when inserting an attributed block into your drawings. For example, if you are creating a script or macro that inserts an attributed block you might want to set ATTDIA to 0 (zero) at the beginning so that the it will prompt for attributes on the command line only. Read more »

Here is a quick way of creating a selection of the most recently-created object in your drawing. Read more »

A relatively unknown command modifier is Mid Between Two Points. What it does is prompts you to select two points and then it will find the middle of those two points. You can use this command modifier along with other OSNAPs as well. Read more »

Have you ever noticed that when you select a bunch of objects in AutoCAD, sometimes their grips appear and sometimes they don’t? No, this isn’t a bug. It’s something called Grip Object Limit. Read more »

This Express Tools command may not be new to some of you but I thought I would share anyway. Type the command SUPERHATCH on the command line and you will get this: Read more »

Autodesk Design Review is free software that you can use to view, print, markup, and measure AutoCAD drawings. I am going to show you how to compare design changes with it. Read more »

The VIEW command has been around for a while. Ever since Autodesk introduced Sheet Set Manager named views have become even more important. Read more »

For this tip, it is best if you sit down and try it on your own. It is one of those things that is better demonstrated than written out. Read more »

Ok, so I broke down and created a Twitter account. I set it up so the feed from this blog does the Twittering for me (along with random updates sent from my phone). Check it out:

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Recently I received a question from Carrie from Slaggie Architects about sharing workspaces in AutoCAD. She asked, “…in the spirit of being lazy, my co-workers and I have been trying to find a way to put our workspace profiles onto our network so that when we use a laptop, or a remote computer we can easily import the workspace and begin working. I have not been able to succesfully import a workspace profile using the CUI dialog. We are working in ‘06 by the way! If you have any suggestions or tips on this can you plese send them our way?” Read more »

Recently I was looking on the web for a way to flip an arrowhead of a dimension and found this blog posting on JTB World. Apparently a command for this has been out since AutoCAD 2006, but there isn’t much documentation on it. Read more »