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AutoCAD Tips & Tricks

Greg Silva
AutoCAD Tips & Tricks Manager
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Welcome to the AutoCAD Tips & Tricks page. This is where each month we will highlight a Tip or Trick of the month. Please visit the AutoCAD Tips & Tricks Forum to review and vote on or even submit your favorite Tip of the month.

I have found out when I prepare for a session of Tips and Tricks at my LUG, it is very hard to come up with the Tips and Tricks. We don’t realize we are using them all the time while we are at work until someone says, “Stop!! Back up. What did you just do?” That’s because we have been using them on a daily basis and don’t think of them as a tip or trick. We just think of them as AutoCAD.
Autodesk is always putting out new tools for us with each new release. We may not find the new tool when the new release comes out (or we might have skipped a release of AutoCAD). So if you have any time-saving tips, I ask you to submit them in the AutoCAD Tips & Tricks Forum.

If you'd like to watch some Tips and Tricks on video, you could always check out the Autodesk Exchange site, where there are interviews and videos about many recent AutoCAD and LT features.

Tip of the Month

Here was my favorite tip for October.

This tip was submitted by archie.manza / bjw6277 back in September.

There are actually 2 tips involved with this post. The original post by archie.manza talks about the AutoCAD command TEXTTOFRONT. This command helps when your text gets behind your wipeouts. TEXTTOFRONT gives you the option to grap all Text,Dimensions or Both and bring their draworder to the front. The second tip is by bjw6277 and it talks about using the F option in the Wipeout command. This will toggle the frame option of the wipeouts. With the frames on you can see and edit the wipeouts boundaries and when it is off you cannot.

To go straight to the tip click here.

Text and Mask

Tired of searching your Text after using a TextMask Express Command? Add this code on your Lsp or Acaddoc.lsp or on the start of opening your drawing. Code: (defun c:ttf () (command "texttofront" "both"))

Thanks to archie.manza and bjw6277 for submitting the great Tip!

AutoCAD Tips & Tricks Manager
~Greg Silva