Still haven't found, what I'm looking for...

this week's [tip of the week] is brought to you by:arguably the second best sitcom of all time,

"Wings"

The series Wings, could best be described as Cheers 2, as it followed much the same pattern as the other series did. The similarities are numerous, such as both being easy going character comedies and being produced by the same team (David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee). The main difference being the setting. Instead of a Boston bar being the main setting, a small airport terminal on the island of Nantucket was used as the main backdrop. The regular "gang" included brothers Joe and Brian Hackett, both pilots, who ran a one-plane local cummuter service called Sandpiper Air. They had little else in common. Joe was button-down, organized and serious, and Brian, a hang loose, free spirit. Thier mutual best friend since childhood was Helen, a once chubby but now beautiful aspiring concert cellist who ran the lunch counter. These three lifelong friends were the "three musketeers". The other regulars included, Faye, Sandpipers rather flighty but always perky, sixtyish ex-stewardess who ran the ticket counter; Lowell Mather, the eccentric airport mechanic and Roy, the loud mouth blow hard who ran rival airline Aeromass.

information:

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this weeks tip is:

the [find] command.

A quick shout out to Corbin over at ZGF for sending this tip on.

If you’re like me every once in a while you need to find a certain text line in a drawing, but have a hard time finding it. Now you can simply type in [find] and this window appears.

You can then type in the text you were looking for and hit find. You can then zoom right to it by clicking the “zoom to” button. While you’re at it, if you need to replace that text, you can do so from the very same command box!

Yes...but I want to do a P-Line around a Curve.

this week's [tip of the week] is brought to you by:

Milton Waddams

You may know him as the soft-spoken, squirrely, fixated collator who mumbles to himself incessantly (most notably about his co-workers borrowing his stapler) who is repeatedly harassed by management, in the movie “Office Space” (1999).

Some of Milton’s more famous lines include:

“I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.”

“Mr. Lumbergh told me to talk to payroll and then payroll told me to talk to Mr. Lumbergh and I still haven't received my paycheck and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it...”

“The ratio of people to cake is too big.”

“Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...”

But today Milton is our sponsor mostly because I could see him as an architect trying to use today’s tip. It would go something like….

“ yes….but I wanted to draw a P-line, but I have a curve, a big, giant curve… in my floor plan, but I can only get the P-line command to work with straight lines…and they’ve switched from AutoCad 2000 to 2007, but I still like my AutoCad 2000…..”

Either way, on to today’s tip.

this weeks tip is:

switching from p-line to p-arc.

Now I’m hoping that most of you know this, but if you don’t, this is an amazing and very easy tip.

Simply type in [pl] to start a poly-line. Follow the lines until you get to a curve. After clicking the point at the start of the curve, type [a]. this will start a “poly line arc”.

Don’t worry where the arc goes or forms to, simply click the point after the curve. Upon closing the poly line, you can go back and fix any curves that don’t line up.

See example below.

The start.

Typing in [a] after clicking the first point of the curve, and then clicking the point after the arc.

Going back to fix the arc, after closing the poly-line.

The final product.

If I Only Had More Time

this week's [tip of the week] is brought to you by:

Crystal Rock Salt Lamps

Crystal Rock improves air quality by emitting negative ions to their
surroundings. Salt lamps emit negative ions when the heat produced from the
lamp breaks down Na CL Sodium Chloride in a process called ionization. The
ionization helps combat many of the harsh elements that bombard our bodies,
causing us to feel unwell.

You may have see these lamps featured in the Germany’s Box Office Sensation…….

Schultze Gets the Blues

Schultze is a retired lignite miner living in an East German village and a passionate Polka musician on his accordion. One night he listens to a Zydeco tune in the radio, which changes his taste of music radically. Notwithstanding his complete ignorance of the English language he starts a trip into the heart of the Zydeco; to Louisiana.

I fully recommend “netflixxin’” this one.

this weeks tip is:

setting your mouse up to be "time sensitive".

Just last week, like Schultze, I had the blues. Why you ask? Because if you’re like me, you enjoy having your “right-click” mouse button as [enter, and repeat last command]. However I was missing the benefits of not using it for the short cut menu.

Now I know we all have our own “user preferences” but if you like using your “right-click” mouse button, here’s a tip that lets you do both.

Since 2004, Auto-Cad has a “time sensitive right-click” option. When clicked fast, the “right-click” is enter, however when held down just a little longer, it becomes the shortcut menu. To set this up, simply follow these easy instructions:

1. 1. Command: OPTIONS

2. 2. Choose the “user preference” tab.

3. 3. Turn on “shortcut menus in drawing area”

4. 4. Click the “right-click customization” button

5. 5. Turn on “time sensitive right click”

6. 6. Change interval if desired

Oops, I did it again...

this week's [tip of the week] is brought to you by:

CHiPs – The Complete First Season (1977)

Where the rubber meets the road and the bad guys meet the badge -- that's where you'll find California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers Jon (Larry Wilcox) and Ponch (Erik Estrada). Set in the sun-drenched sprawl of Los Angeles, CHiPs combines action, heroics and fun in 22 Season One episodes whose event-packed story lines range from freeway gridlock (let's use a circus elephant to tow that broken-axled truck!) to wild roadway pursuits (who's that beautiful woman lead-footing a Rolls Royce?), from spilled onions (crying time, fellas) to pure venom (an overturned van loaded with...sssnakes!). Attention all units: Report now for arresting entertainment!

this weeks tip is:

the [oops] command.

If you’re like me, every once in a while you delete something that you didn’t want to delete. However sometimes you realize this after already using a few other commands. I believe most of us would [control Z]-it back to the point of the deleted object, losing whatever work we may have done in the process…to this I say “nay”. You now have the power of the [oops].

When using the [oops] command, simply type in [oops], and hit enter This will bring back the last object to be deleted, no matter how much work with other commands you have done since.

Hope this helps.