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I always change the colors of external references in my current drawing so they suit better my needs. What if I need to restore the original Layer Colors of the Xref? What should I do? Bring back Original Xref Colors The first thing that comes to mind is to detach the Xref, and reattach it … Read more
Polylines are one of the most frequently used objects in AutoCAD. I personally can’t imagine working without using one, that is why it is really important for all drafters to know how to edit them as fast as they can. One of the common tasks for us while working with polylines is to remove an existing … Read more
Two of the most commonly used commands by me are Bring to Front and Send to Back. This is because our drawings oftentimes are overcrowded, and they can become hard to understand. By using display settings we can make our drawings more readable and professional looking. The problem with these commands is that there is no … Read more
Are you trying to convert Text to Mtext Without any Formatting? I was trying to do just that a lot of times and finally, I found a solution! Here we will take a look at it. The reason why I wanted to convert several Text objects to single line Mtext objects is that I wanted to … Read more
The problem? Today I received one architectural site plan with really poor linework. I assume that the Architect had used Revit or other similar software and then exported his drawing to AutoCAD. But the result was really bad for me. All the objects were blocks and all the objects in the blocks had different layers … Read more
If you are working in the field of Civil Engineering or Land Surveying you probably faced the problem of Assigning Elevations to Polylines. The most common situation is when you have to use someone’s existing drawing and they exploded everything. Or have flattened the contours and now all the polylines have Elevation 0. The second … Read more
Do you know What is Xref and Why should you use it? If you do, maybe once or twice you needed to add things to your external references. Or other times you had to copy objects from the current drawing to a Xref. Here we are going to look at different ways of copying/adding objects to Xrefs. … Read more