How to Place a Text in an Arc on Oct 8, 2010 in AutoCAD Tips and Tricks Express tools Arc Arctext Circle Express Menu LISP How to write a text around a circle? that was the question that I have received in one of the yahoo groups that I recently joined. I have been doing AutoCAD works for 14 years and counting, but I have not known yet if there is a command regarding...
How to Draw a Straight Angular Line on Jul 22, 2010 in AutoCAD Snapang Straight Angular Line UCS Normally in AutoCAD you can only draw two types of straight lines, one is vertical line, the other is horizontal line, provided you’re working on ortho on mode. However you can always draw a straight angular line by turning your cursor to ortho...
Using TEXTFILL on Mar 12, 2010 in AutoCAD ARIAL Fonts TEXT TEXTFILL Tips and Tricks Have you sometimes encountered a scenario, when you plot your drawing then the TEXT in your drawing appeared only as an outline? (Fig.1) but if you look at it in AutoCAD it is appear as normal filled text. This happen specially if you are using the...
How to Unhide Layout and Model Tabs on Feb 23, 2010 in AutoCAD Layout Tabs Model tabs Just a moment ago, while doing my work on my AutoCAD, I accidentally hide the Layout and Model Tabs ( Fig.1)in AutoCAD. At first, I was confuse what was just happen with my AutoCAD for I haven’t figured out that the Model Tabs was missing.
Underlining a Text in AutoCAD on Nov 20, 2009 in AutoCAD AutoCAD Tips and Tricks Sometimes putting a mark or putting a note in our drawing is necessary, specially if you want to specify something, then highlighting it, in order to notice it easily. In my case, whenever this kind of scenarios arises, I always put an Underline...
Text Under the Dimension Line on Nov 20, 2009 in AutoCAD Dimension Mtext How do you put a text under a dimension line? No, I’m not talking about literally putting a Text under a dimension line using the command Text or Mtext then putting it under the dimension line manually. What I’m talking about is how are y...
How to Load an AutoLISP File on Sep 1, 2009 in AutoCAD AutoCAD Tutorials AutoLisp Appload AutoCAD Tutorial CUI Tutorials If you’re using AutoCAD for long period of time and you know how to use the AutoLISP and the importance of it. You probably know how to load the AutoLISP file in AutoCAD, and you certainly don’t need to read this tutorial. But if happens...
How to Hide/Unhide Command Line on Aug 19, 2009 in AutoCAD Tools Unhide Command Line Sometimes while doing our job in AutoCAD there is some instances that happens unexpectedly. And one of that is the accidental turning off of the command line, and with that, you are unable to see the command that you’re keying-in. There is...
Hatch your Drawing by Dragging the Hatch Pattern from the Design center on Jul 16, 2009 in AutoCAD Draw Tips and Tricks Architect Bhatch DesignCenter Drafting Hatch pattern Hatch is an integral part of our drawing, without hatch pattern our drawing is somewhat dull in presentation. And without hatch our drawing will hardly be understood by the readers. Well of course if you are a Draftsman or an Architect, you should al...
Using Text Fit on Jun 24, 2009 in AutoCAD Express Express tools Text Fit TEXTFIT, is an AutoCAD express tools command that stretches or shrink text objects, by selecting a new start and end points for text. This command should be best use in a situation like, fitting a room label in an enclosed border by setting a new tex...
