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24/05/2017

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know
!!!! Tip 21 !!!!!!
Although it may sound impossible - you CAN draw multicolored lines/polylines in AutoCAD.
MLINE functionality can be used for this. Use the MLSTYLE command to define a new multiline style and define (element properties) two line elements, both with the offset equal to 0. Set different colors to them (e.g. green and red). Use different linetypes, e.g. DASHED and DASHED2 (you may need to Load them first) - for real-life applications you will probably need to define your own linetypes. Save the new Mline style. Now use the MLINE command to draw a polyline using this new mlstyle - it has alternating green/red colors!

You can use the same approach to define even three or more colors.

As AutoCAD allows to define complex linetypes containing text, you can even make linetypes (mlines) with embedded text in a different color than the line (e.g. line in a BYLAYER color and text always in blue). For this you need to define one complex linetype containing text and almost no lines (e.g. only dots) plus a appropriate dashed linetype with spaces for the text. To see the principle you can define such multicolor text linetype using MLSTYLE with elements of DASHED and GAS (shipped with AutoCAD) linetypes.

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02/03/2015

GA drawing (Panel Design) Motor control centre and Power control centre ie., PCC & MCC

05/12/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 20 !!!!!!
How to: Create Layer List from a Drawing to Excel Table

Need to report all your layers and their properties to an Excel table? Don’t be afraid… It’s easy to do!

You can select one, many or all layers (CTRL+A or right click and select all) and then press CTRL+C. Then just paste into Excel, Word or even directly to AutoCAD.

If all layers are copied a header is also included with all columns:

Status Name On Freeze Lock Color Linetype Lineweight Plot Style Plot New VP Freeze Description

Notice also that if a column is hidden it will not be included.

I’ve known about this tip since before but got reminded that it also works in AutoCAD LT.

22/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 19 !!!!!!
How to: Place Dimensions or Hatches to a Predefined Layer

Managing layer standard sometimes very hard to do. We might miss changing the layer accidently before placing our dimension or hatches. If you do care about layering standard and want to prevent your user from making mistakes.

The most effective way are the palettes and reactors. As an example of such reactor you can use the free utility AutoLay or FLay, which places all drawn dimensions, hatches and texts to fixed predefined layers. Just load the LISP utility into AutoCAD (APPLOAD) and switch it on with the AutoLay (or FLay) command.
E.g. for FLay, you just prepare a simple text file FLay.tab with layer names for the individual object types (this file is loaded by the FLay utility). That's all, you can use standard commands. An example (hatches, red texts):

18/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 18 !!!!!!
Which Objects are on Which Layer?

When we have a quite complex drawing, it is become hard when we need to check which objects are on which layer. Our hero to easily check this is Layer Walk or LAYWALK.

Have you ever get confused which AutoCAD objects are on which layer? When you work with layer standard, you may have dozens or even hundreds of layers in your drawing. Finding which one sets to wrong layer can be a tedious work.
Here is a little tool that will be useful: layer walk.

Type LAYWALK then [enter] to activate this tool. Alternatively, you can access it from menu: Format> Layer Tools> Layer Walk. Or access it from your ribbon: home tab>layers panel> layer walk. You may need to expand the panel to see the tool.
With this tool, you can quickly check if your objects are placed correctly in their layer. You can turn off restore on exit if you find the one placed in wrong layer and move it.

11/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 18 !!!!!!
Set All Your Objects Properties Back to ByLayer

don’t like when I receive AutoCAD drawings with the properties overridden to other than ByLayer. It’s a bit hard to distinguish between layers in that drawing. I usually can determine objects layer when I see their color.

There are many ways to change them back to ByLayer. One popular method is to select all objects and set the properties to ByLayer or using Match Properties.
But it will be a problem when it has blocks that also have it’s property overridden.AutoCAD actually has a very handy tool for this purpose: SETBYLAYER.

You can type it in command line/ dynamic input or accessing menu modify>change by layer. Or you can find it in home tab> modify panel. Expand the panel and you should see this command like below.

''''Command: SETBYLAYER
Current active settings: Color Linetype Lineweight Material
Select objects or [Settings]:
Specify opposite corner: 167 found
Select objects or [Settings]:
Change ByBlock to ByLayer? [Yes/No] :
Include blocks? [Yes/No] :
167 object modified.''''

This is a great tool to implement your CAD standard to a drawing. It won’t take long to restore all properties to ByLayer!
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11/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 18 !!!!!!
How to: Select Objects with Windows Behavior

AutoCAD is a very unique application. It has different way to use shortcut. It has different way to ask input from the users. While other application use dialog box, AutoCAD use command line. And selecting objects is different to. In most Windows application, when we select a new object, then the previous selection set will be cleared. We need to hold [ctrl] or [shift] to add objects to selection set.
You may not use AutoCAD that much, so you want AutoCAD to behave like other application you have. You can set the selection behavior by changing the PICKADD system variable to 0. The default value is 2.
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07/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 17 !!!!!!
How to: Create 2D Isometric Drawing in AutoCAD

If you work in plant industry, then you might need to draw isometric drawings. If you use AutoCAD, you may wish you can do it easily. You can.

It’s not a 3D drawing, but 2D drawing by simply change your drawing orientation. You can do it by using snap, then change it’s style to isometric.
Command: SNAP

""Specify snap spacing or [ON/OFF/Aspect/Style/Type] : S
Enter snap grid style [Standard/Isometric] : I
Specify vertical spacing :""

You can change your plane by typing ISOPLANE [enter] then select left, top, right.

05/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 16 !!!!!!
How to: Modify Objects With Non-Uniform Scale

This image below was drawn in AutoCAD. Take a look at the railing in red circle. How can we make baluster like that?
It’s just actually a simple, boring repetitive task. As you can see, I use the baluster in all railings. I made it as a block.

After I have it as block, I can insert it and squeeze the X scale a little. I only change the X scale, but I keep Y and Z scale 1.

To do that, make sure you uncheck the “Uniform Scale” option when you insert your block.
It could be 0.90. Then I repeat the process and place the next one with X scale 0.80. The next one 0.75. I repeat the process until the last baluster. To get the correct scale, you might need to do some trials. But you get the idea.

There are many things you can do with non uniform scale. This is just one of it.

If you ever need to scale your object non-uniformly, what do you need it for? Can you share with us?

04/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 15 !!!!!!
How to: Create Multi Colored Line

Although it may sound impossible - you CAN draw multicolored lines/polylines in AutoCAD.
MLINE functionality can be used for this. Use the MLSTYLE command to define a new multiline style and define (element properties) two line elements, both with the offset equal to 0. Set different colors to them (e.g. green and red). Use different linetypes, e.g. DASHED and DASHED2 (you may need to Load them first) - for real-life applications you will probably need to define your own linetypes. Save the new Mline style. Now use the MLINE command to draw a polyline using this new mlstyle - it has alternating green/red colors!
You can use the same approach to define even three or more colors.

As AutoCAD allows to define complex linetypes containing text, you can even make linetypes (mlines) with embedded text in a different color than the line

04/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 15 !!!!!!
Fillet and Chamfer for Quick Modify

You know what are fillet and chamfer for. Do you know that we can use fillet and chamfer to quickly modify objects?

1.) Trim and chamfer can be used to quickly create a corner. Use 0 as the radius (or chamfer distance). They will extend or trim the lines. Hold [shift] to override the radius/distance to 0 temporarily.

2.) The method above will join the lines as polyline, if one of them is a polyline.

3.) Use fillet to create arc to close parallel lines, regardless on the radius defined.

03/11/2014

The $mall, the εffective, the εasy: 99 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

!!!! Tip 14 !!!!!!
Do you ever have problem when dimensioning when the objects are staggered? Using DIMALIGNED can’t do this. A great tip that we can use DIMROTATED. See the comparison between DIMALIGNED and DIMROTATED below.
There is no documentation or toolbar about it. It might be forgotten, but I’m sure you will find it really useful!

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