May 25, 2013

Task 3: Add styles to your templates

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3rd task in work with AutoCAD better. In this task we will add styles to our templates. Discuss it here!

Creating layer and styles with AutoLISP

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In this AutoLISP tutorial, we learn how to create layers, text styles, and dimension styles.

AutoCAD tip: remove alternate unit bracket in dimension

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Do you ever wish to remove alternate units bracket in AutoCAD dimensions? Or you want to change the bracket to something else?

More Annotation Tools: Dimension

We have discussed about using text and cell to annotate our drawings. Let us explore further about annotation tools. This time, we are going to discuss how to use MicroStation dimension. Even if we create our drawings in exact sizes, plot it in certain scales, we still need to add dimensions. It doesn’t make sense [...]

Enforcing Dimension Styles Across Your Drawings

I found this question has been asked twice in CADTutor forum in the past two days. How can we apply new dimension styles across our drawings? You may already created some (or many) drawings with different styles. Now you want to apply the same style to all your drawings. How we can do that? Although [...]