May 10, 2012

Cool way to Open Your Drawing: Drag n Drop!

mr__mouse Sometimes I just hate to open DWG files from dialog box. Some files are not easy to find from a small dialog box, so I need to find it from my Windows Explorer or doing search/find. It would be a waste of time if I have to point my open dialog box to that file location. So what do I do? Just drag and drop to open it!

There are three way to do this:

  1. Drag your file to your AutoCAD icon on your desktop. You don’t need to open your program, this will open AutoCAD and open your file!
  2. Drag your file to your AutoCAD title bar. It’s the one mentioning your AutoCAD version name, and your active file. This will open your file in your session.
  3. Drag your file into your opened file. This will insert your drawing to active drawing as block.
  4. Drag and drop using right mouse click and choose attach as reference to insert it as XREF.

This is also cool when you doing a presentation and open files like that, isn’t it?

 

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About Edwin Prakoso

Edwin works as an Application Engineer in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has 4 years experience in building industry, then start to work for Autodesk reseller.
He is certified as Revit Architecture 2010 certified professional and CATIA V5 part design specialist. Currently he is involved as team leader for implementing SmarTeam as PDM in several companies.
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  • Anonymous

    Drag and drop with the right mouse button for attach as xref otpion

  • Edwin Prakoso

    Thanks to anonymous :)
    That's what I'm looking for!

    • Randy

      LOL That’s pretty slick. Me likey!

  • Test

    Why wouldn’t you just double click on the DWG file in Windows Explorer?