Have you ever had trouble making the display order of objects stay the way you want? Sadly the DRAWORDER command isn’t always as reliable as I would like it to be. Here is how I force the draw order to stick: Read more »

Have you ever experienced a problem when you try to fillet a polyline only to have it fillet the wrong way? A tipster posted the answer to Cadalyst…

All you need to do is reverse the direction of the offending polyline (type PEDIT, select the polyline and type R for “reverse”) and try the fillet command again.

Sadly most of us have experienced this kind of frustration. A drawing becomes so corrupted that RECOVER can’t even fix it. Never fear! Autodesk has workarounds. These tips are good to know because it seems things like this tend to happen when a deadline is right around the corner.

I’ve noticed a bug in AutoCAD 2008 that causes annotative text to disappear or become unselectable. This is very annoying, but there is a temporary fix. Read more »