Mike Williams | January 13, 2009
Ahh, the feeling. We had just completed one of the biggest projects we’ve ever drafted and I was going to meet with the Architect with the final construction documents. I rolled them out with great pride. The drawings looked awesome.
While I was standing there, waiting for the accolades to pour in, he got that look on his face. You know the one that’s part confusion and part frustration. I looked down, and for the first time realized that everywhere on the sheet in place of the scale (which was an automatically updated field) was written XREF_XREF_XREF…
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Tags: 2008, 2009, bug, plot scales, scalelistedit, scales, service pack, tips, xref, xref_xref
Mike Williams | January 12, 2009
Have you ever inserted an XREF and then spent time getting all the LAYERs turned on, off, thawed and frozen just the way you want. You then spent even more time setting each layer the color that you want. And once you had everything just perfect, you saved your drawing and exited, only to find when you return that all the time consuming work had been lost…
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Tags: layer control, layer settings, layers, system variable, tips, VISRTAIN, xref
Mike Williams | January 3, 2009
How many times have you almost lost your religion over hatching? In today’s AutoCAD Tips, we are going to addresses a few of the problems associated with selecting a hatch boundary.
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You are working towards a deadline, you are almost finished, and all you need to do is hatch one last area and then plot. You select a point inside the boundary and wait. And wait, and wait. You start sweating as you think “when was the last time I saved?” You start praying, “Please don’t freeze up!” After what seems like an eternity, if you are luck, the boundary finally selects and disaster if avoided. This time…
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Tags: AutoCAD tip, gap tolerance, hatch, hatch boundary, hatching, HPGAPTOL, tips, xref
