Get things in order, display order that is. Now you can find the TextToFront command on the Ribbon along with the DrawOrder and HatchToBack commands.
Category: CAD Skills
Learning habits, information resources, skills measurement
Learn about the AutoCAD® User Interface Quickly.
Here are a few tips to make the AutoCAD User Interface more “discoverable”. You may be just starting to learn AutoCAD, or you want to introduce a newby to AutoCAD or you have been recently stumped on AutoCAD® trivia questions at the office. You are coming from a point of reference where the terminology is unfamiliar. Read further and get a very quick, very convenient overview of the parts of the AutoCAD User Interface (UI).
Elevation Views Using the Camera and Clip Front and Back
Lets say you have created a model in AutoCAD. You may even have a point cloud in your drawing. Now you want to display a thin slice through the model. Use the Camera command in AutoCAD and apply clipping planes front and back. In this example I overlaid 2 viewports. One viewport contains the tank and grid lines. The other viewport contains just the point cloud with a named view created using a camera object and […]
3d DWF files as Underlays are not backward compatible
I discovered the 3Ddwf file I created in AutoCAD 2011 got an error when using as an underlay in AutoCAD 2010. It appears 3dDWF files are not backward compatible for underlay purposes. I also tried using a DWFx format with the same result.
Search your own tips from AutoCAD’s search bar
Below is a combination of good and bad things about AutoCAD’s Search bar for help. The Search Bar in AutoCAD’s title bar can be customized to include your own library of tips and tricks and other documents you may have accumulated. The less than convenient limitation is you must link each file individually. You can also add a link to an RSS Feed through the Communication Center. The disappointing limitation is RSS Feeds are not searchable from the Search Bar in AutoCAD. Clear the “Hide results older than..” check […]
Paste Special – Ctrl-Alt-V
Paste Special Keyboard Shortcut
Cannot find .shx file errors and what to do about it.
2 things. 1) I don’t want the “Select Shape File” dialog to appear when I open a drawing. 2) What’s inside a .shx file.
Redefining Blocks made easy
Redefine blocks using Design Center
AutoCAD 2010 – no toolbars displayed
In most recent version of AutoCAD when a toolbar is visible it is easy to control which toolbars are displayed. 1. Right clicking on any toolbar that is visible displays a list of toolbars for that menu group. 2. Right clicking on a blank area of the screen where you can dock a toolbar and you get a list of all the Menu Groups. Simply pick a toolbar from within one of the menu groups listed. All very […]
Using your drawing template to create drawings
This post is for people new to drawing templates. You have created a custom drawing template by creating a new drawing. You added your title block and border to a layout. How do you use this template to create new drawings?
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