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AutoCAD Drawing Templates acadiso.dwt

Orhan Toker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:00:17 +0000

Hello my friends, When we start a drawing for the first time; most of us open the LAYERs that we frequently use, load linetypes, make settings for drawing limits and units. And sometimes, in order not to do all of these again and again every time, do these operations in an empty drawing and start a [...]

Parametric Design With AutoLISP

Günay Özmen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0000

AutoLISP programming language is one of the ways to increase the effectiveness of AutoCAD applications. This article is intended for those who have not yet had an introduction to AutoLISP. We will introduce the AutoLISP language and explain some simple applications of it. It is obvious that for experienced AutoLISP users, this articles will not [...]

Hip tip: Dialog boxes of commands don’t appear?

Orhan Toker — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:00:45 +0000

Dear Friends, Sometimes dialog boxes of commands on AutoCAD don’t appear. The CMDDIA system variable controls this. By changing this system variable to ‘1′, you can easily make them appear. Command: CMDDIA Enter new value for CMDDIA <0>: 1 <ENTER> Regards,

How to prevent the startup dialogue box to be appear?

Orhan Toker — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:00:49 +0000

AutoCAD 2000 and later Greetings, There appears “Startup dialog box” each time Autocad opens. It may be annoying since it tries to connect to internet and gather some information. If you want to see traditional startup box showing template drawings menu, do the same things mentioned above. Fig.1 Right-click on the command line and choose ‘Options‘. Pass to the [...]

Getting area properties of solid surfaces.

Orhan Toker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:22:35 +0000

Greetings, One of our readera has sent me the following e-mail; “I am new on the site yet, follow your articles with admiration. I have a question for you; I want to measure areas of surfaces of exploded solid objects. But I can not measure areas of those objects called surface. If it is possible yet, a [...]