A Long Line Of "Quick Dimensions"

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this weeks tip is:

quick dimensions.

I’m not sure if this week’s tip is a tip so much, or just a button discovery. Either way I hope you enjoy.

When working on almost any drawing there comes a point where you have to start dimensioning. To make this process quicker simply use the [quick dimension] button. It’s the one highlighted in the picture, the one with the dimension string with the “lightning bolt” through it. Yeah…….I know…..it’s probably the coolest looking button I’ve ever seen, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

After hitting the button, simply select the side of the drawing you would like to dimension. For example the side of a storefront window system.

Then hit [enter] and pull or cursor in the direction that you want your dimensions to go, and you’re done!

This button is so hot, it just might change color!

So similar..yet so different

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this weeks tip is:

the [select similar] command.

To follow up last week’s tip of [Quick Select]. This is another way to select similar items in a drawing.

Make sure that your “right click” mouse customization brings up your short cut menu.

Whether you need to select all the doors, windows, furniture, or even a type of line weight, simply select one object, “right click” and scroll down until you see select similar. Upon release you will find all the objects in your drawing that are similar to the one you clicked, selected.

There aren’t as many options to narrow down what you select as with [QS], but…

don’t be “too shy” about using this tip.

The Quick and the Selected

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this weeks tip is:

the [quick select] command.

I’d like to send a quick “shout out” to jon over at “sp” for suggesting this tip.

If you’re like me, and jon, every once in a while, you need to select a whole lot of one thing. Whether it’s doors, furniture, walls, line types or blocks. This can be made simple using the “quick select” command.

Let’s say for some reason you need to select all the doors in a particular project that has a lot of doors.

“You'll have to forgive the crudeness of this model, I didn't have time to paint it or build it to scale”

Now type [QS], and this box will appear

Now, you can either select the entire drawing or click on the little box with the arrow and “x” to select only a portion. In this case I wanted to select only a portion. After clicking the box and selecting the area on my screen. I hit “enter” and then use the “quick select box” to narrow down, what I want selected.

In this case, I just wanted doors, but there are many, many options to select exactly what you want. After clicking ok, all the doors are selected.

Your B.O. is in my Boundary

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this weeks tip is:

boundry command.

If you’re like me, every once in a while you need to draw a polyline, whether it’s for a ceiling grid, create an area to hatch, or just for kicks. However, every once in a while, you’ll have to create a polyline in a awkward space, and you may not be thrilled with all the pointing and clicking you have to do. Well now it’s “no bigs” Simply use the Boundary command.

Say you have a very “odd shape” that you want to put a polyline around. See “odd shape” below.

Simply type in [BO], and this box will appear.

Select [pick points] and then select an area within the “odd shape”

You will now have a polyline matching that shape!!!

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this weeks tip is:

copying nested items.

drawing onto your current working drawing. To do this you need to use the “copy nested items” command, or the “robin hood” as people in the underground world of “cad club” call it.

Let’s start out assuming you have a drawing open, as well as an x-ref drawing.

Type in: [ncopy]

You will then be asked to select the lines from the x-ref’ed drawing you like. Note: you have to pick the lines individually, you will not be able to use “window” or “cross window” to select objects.

After selecting your objects to copy hit [enter]

You will then be asked to “specify a base point”.

This is where this command gets a little tricky. As soon as you’re asked to “specify a base point” CAD shuts off your [osnap]. So you will then have to click on [osnap] and select what points you’d like to snap to.

After this, select a point on your x-ref file where you’d like to copy from, then select the point on your current working drawing you’d like to copy to. The lines you wanted will now be placed on your current drawing, on the current layer.