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Tips and Tricks

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    • Application
    • Edit Objects
    • Layers, Colors and Other Object Properties
    • Object Display
    • Plotting and Publishing

    Application

    Display buttons instead of icons on your status bar

    Did you know you can display buttons instead of icons on your status bar? Give it a try and right click the status bar...

    Edit Objects

    Oops... Undo the Last Erased Objects

    The OOPS command is an often unforgetten command.  OOPS allows you to restore the objects that you erased during the most recent use of the ERASE command without undoing all of the most recent commands.

    For example, if you erased an object and then added some objects and dimensions you can restore the erased object by using the OOPS command.  This keeps the objects and dimensions you added in the drawing.

    Layers, Colors and Other Object Properties

    You can draw an object on a frozen layer! Yes you can!

    You can draw an object on a frozen layer if you use a command icon in the tool palette. The layer associated wih the command will be thawed the time needed to use the command.

    Change all entities to the Bylayer color

    When you need to change all entities to the Bylayer color, you can use the LAYTRANS command, load the same drawing as the current drawing in the target field and click in the options to assign the layers to the same layers names in the target. This will convert all colors, even those in blocks, to Bylayer.

    Object Display

    See the invisible

    To see empty text, you can turn on QTEXT variable, empty texts will appear as empty rectangles.

    Plotting and Publishing

    Did you know zero lineweight prints at the printer device's finest?

    This is a good way to be sure your linestrokes will be always the finest possible, and this, independantly of the printing device.