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The SSX Command
As this is my first post on HowToAutoCAD.com of 2013, I’d firstly like to wish you all a (somewhat belated…) Happy New Year! Here’s a tip that was forwarded to me recently, by a chap named Santiago....
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The REVERSE Command
Hi all, just a quick tip for today. Probably my favourite entity in AutoCAD is the polyline. However, there have been a few things in the past that I’ve found somewhat annoying, one of which is...
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The TSPACEINVADERS Command
Hi everyone, Today I’m going to talk to you about a command that arguably has the coolest name ever to be given to an AutoCAD command. The command is so cool in fact, that it didn’t want to go through...
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Copy Layers to Excel
Hi everyone, Recently someone showed me a really simple, and rather obscure tip that I thought was pretty neat. I must admit, I’m yet to find a practical use for it, but I’m sure as with many other...
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Export To AutoCAD
Hi everyone, Quick tip for all of you using AutoCAD verticals such as Civil 3D. You’ll no doubt have noticed that if you open drawings created in an AutoCAD vertical will have it’s native objects...
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The SETBYLAYER Command
As of AutoCAD 2008, we have a new command for dealing with the layering properties of objects en-masse. The SETBYLAYER Command. As you’d expect, this is used for setting properties to ByLayer (as they...
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AutoCAD Groups
Blocks are very useful, and you might be tempted to ignore the existence of groups and just always use blocks instead. However, groups actually work differently to blocks, and in many cases it is...
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The PICKSTYLE System Variable
Very quick tip to supplement the last post I wrote on Groups, which comes to us thanks to one of my subscribers named Santiago. I mentioned that the behaviour when selecting a group is controllable...
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Identifying System Variable Differences
I’ve often been in a situation where a certain command or entity seems to behave differently in one drawing compared to another. Things such as how drawing units are handled are controlled on a drawing...
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The BCOUNT Command
BCOUNT is a very simple and quick command for extracting information from your drawing, namely, a count of the number of blocks in your drawing, categorised by their type. It’s really simple to use –...
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