QVLAYOUT is a handy command,for sure. It lets us hide our layout and model space tabs, recovering valuable screen real estate, and it provides a nice thumbnail view of each layout. But it takes a few extra milliseconds to generate the thumbnails, and if you know you want to go to the first layout (which [...]
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Layout Selector
Posted in autocad, lisp on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WblockAll
Posted in autocad, lisp, utilities, tagged autocad, lisp, utilities on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a handy utility:
WblockAll
It’s a free compiled LISP script. Use APPLOAD to load it into AutoCAD.
What it does is export all blocks in a drawing into separate drawing files in a folder of your choice. I find this to be useful when looking for poorly-defined blocks. I stumbled across WblockAll the other [...]
AutoCAD Blog Roundup
Posted in autocad, blog roundup, civil3D, lisp on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
R.K. McSwain has a well-written tutorial about how to set up Paper Space Layouts.
Dave Dixon posted a quick tip on how to eliminate that huge list of annotative scales.
From the Ground Up has posted a handy LISP file for quickly changing polyline elevations.
Ward Romberger explains the usefulness (or futility) of plotting with Lines Merge.
Layer Freeze 2004
Posted in autocad, hacking, lisp, old school on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A blast from the past
I was getting frustrated with the way Layer Freeze in AutoCAD 2008 (and maybe 2007?) handles blocks nested within xrefs. If you have a block which contains entities on layer 0, which is itself on a different layer, and the whole thing is in an xref, and you use 2008 layfrz, [...]
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