The following Tips & Tricks are from Donnia Tabor-Hanson class AUGI
Tips & Tricks: The Final Tour
5) CHANGE of
Habit
So many times we get caught up in using some command that we don’t explore the way others
can be used. For example, the Extend command is useful to get lines to go
to one particular
position on the Y-axis. But, what if
you don’t have a line there to extend to – well you draw one
in
and extend to it then erase it. Let’s look at one of the oldest commands and see about using it
instead.
The
CHANGE command used to be the EDIT command. You used it to create fillets, change
properties of an element, all kinds of things. It still is a very useful but almost forgotten
command. Take a bunch of lines that you want to go to one place – in
the extend example –
and you can change the closest endpoint
to go to a single picked location. Warning – the
change
command is sensitive to the midpoint of a line. You have to make sure that if you are
using ORTHO that it will change the endpoint in the correct direction and not at a 90 degree
direction to that which you intended.
11)
Does Mother-in-Law Come for a Visit - or is She Moving IN!
XREF’s are a very useful tool but are you getting exactly
what you want? You have two options
– Attach or Overlay. When you Attach you get any
XREF’s that are in the drawing you attach. If
you Overlay you only get the drawing that you
are XREF’ing. This can bring in a lot more than
you need. You can set your default to what your
company protocol is.
XREFTYPE
0 – XREF’s are attached –
this is the default
1 – XREF’s are overlaid
This system
variable is saved in the Registry.
Even if you go into the External References palette
and select the file you attached with all the
baggage and change it to an Overlay it will
not remove the offending baggage of Attached
reference files
18) What did you do?
We always have some things in this class that are just for fun. Here are some things to do so
you can stand back and say, “What did you do?” to your fellow employees.
BLIPMODE
– 0,1 >0
CURSORSIZE - >5
USCICON – properties
option
LIMCHECK – works with LIMITS – 0,1 >0
VIEWRES
- >10000
QTEXTMODE – 0,1 >0
Beep on error
– Options>System
SNAP
VTDURATION – max 5000 >750
Tray Settings
REGENAUTO – ON, OFF >ON
FILEDIA
– 0,1 >1
PICKAUTO – 0,1 >1
PICKDRAG – 0,1 >0
MIRRTEXT – 0,1 >0
DRAGMODE – 0,1,2 >2
11) Does Mother-in-Law Come for a Visit - or is She Moving IN!
XREF’s are a very useful tool but are you
getting exactly what you want? You have two options
– Attach or Overlay. When you Attach you
get any XREF’s that are in the drawing you attach. If
you Overlay you only get the drawing
that you are XREF’ing. This can bring in a lot more than
you need. You can set your
default to what your company protocol is.
XREFTYPE
0 –
XREF’s are attached – this is the default
1 – XREF’s are overlaid
This system variable is saved in the Registry.
Even if you go into the External
References palette and select the file you attached with all the
baggage and change it to an
Overlay it will not remove the offending baggage of Attached
reference files
18) What did
you do?
We always have some things in this class that are just for fun. Here are some things to do so
you can stand back and say, “What did you do?” to your fellow employees.
BLIPMODE
– 0,1 >0
CURSORSIZE - >5
USCICON – properties
option
LIMCHECK – works with LIMITS – 0,1 >0
VIEWRES
- >10000
QTEXTMODE – 0,1 >0
Beep on error
– Options>System
SNAP
VTDURATION – max 5000 >750
Tray Settings
REGENAUTO – ON, OFF >ON
FILEDIA
– 0,1 >1
PICKAUTO – 0,1 >1
PICKDRAG – 0,1 >0
MIRRTEXT – 0,1 >0
DRAGMODE – 0,1,2 >2
