2006

Identity Crisis of Dynamic Blocks

by Donnie Gladfelter on November 27, 2006

in AutoCAD,AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008

Those using Dynamic Blocks have surely found their functionality quite stellar. That is until they stop being “dynamic”. Dynamic Blocks utilize something called an anonymous block name. This anonymous name is automatically generated by AutoCAD, and helps it manage things like visibility states. There is no real solution to the problem, although there is what [...]

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Sheet Set Manager – Replacement for Windows Explorer?

by Donnie Gladfelter on August 1, 2006

in AutoCAD,AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008

Sheet Set Manager (SSM) is a very powerful tool, but with its power comes a degree of complexity. The average end-user should never have to dig into the back end of SSM, and have to set up fields and the like. On the other hand an average end user will use the “Sheet Management” functions [...]

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Keep your Attribute Text (Burst)

July 31, 2006

Attributed blocks can be friend or foe, especially if you’re not sure how to tame them. Let’s face it; from time to time they can be a little temperamental. Take for example exploding one of those pesky attributed blocks. Run the EXPLODE command on an attributed block and you’re not going to be given nice [...]

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Hidden Copy Options

July 4, 2006

As designs get more and more complex, and the need to separate things into multiple drawings becomes more important, so does the need to copy things between those drawings. As a result many of you are probably as addicted to the “Ctrl” + “C” shortcut as I am. Although “Ctrl” + “C” is a wonderful [...]

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Where’s my Panorama Window?

June 20, 2006

The Panorama Window is a great design resource when working with either alignments or profiles. However the Panorama Window can prove temperamental at times, and absolutely refuse to display. So the question remains, how do I get the darn thing back? In Civil 3D: Minimize the current drawing (not the Civil 3D session, but the [...]

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Special Character Codes for Text

June 12, 2006

These codes stem back to the “Old School” days of AutoCAD in DOS, but are each still useful today. All of these codes still work with DTEXT using the standard AutoCAD fonts. Likewise, all but the %%u and %%o codes work with the newer MTEXT. %%d = degree %%c = circle diameter %%p = plus/minus [...]

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