Know Grip Pop-up List Options
The following AutoCAD Tips & Tricks post, have a title ‘AutoCAD Tips to Know Grip Pop-up List Options’. We hope this ‘AutoCAD Tips to Know Grip Pop-up List Options’ post below will very useful and helpful for all AutoCAD users. Enjoy it and start learning right now!
This ‘AutoCAD Tips to Know Grip Pop-up List Options’ is another grips feature trick. Here are the short tips on this ‘AutoCAD Tips to Know Grip Pop-up List Options’:
- Highlight one or more grips and right-click.
- Sure enough, there are all your grip mode options in one convenient place.
- Very easy!
Set a Default Printer for All New Layout Tabs
The following AutoCAD Tips & Tricks post, have a title ‘AutoCAD Tips to Set a Default Printer for All New Layout Tabs’. We hope this ‘AutoCAD Tips to Set a Default Printer for All New Layout Tabs’ post below will very useful and helpful for all AutoCAD users. Enjoy it and start learning right now!
Sometimes we need to set up a layout tab quickly with your default printer. This ‘AutoCAD Tips to Set a Default Printer for All New Layout Tabs’ beneath, will give a short explanation for setting a default printer for all new AutoCAD layout tabs. Here’s a tried and true method of ‘AutoCAD Tips to Set a Default Printer for All New Layout Tabs’ to ensure you have the right printer:
- First, open the Options dialogue box by right-clicking on the command line
- And select Options from the bottom of the list.
- Pick the Plot and Publish tab and in the top left listing,
- Pull down the cascade and select your default printer to apply to any new layout tabs you create.
- Now anytime you right-click on a layout tab and select New Layout, the options setting will apply.
- Well done! Very easy, isn’t it?
Use Keyboard Shortcuts for Cycling Through Layout Tabs
The following AutoCAD Tips & Tricks post, have a title ‘AutoCAD Tips to Use Keyboard Shortcuts for Cycling Through Layout Tabs’. We hope this ‘AutoCAD Tips to Use Keyboard Shortcuts for Cycling Through Layout Tabs’ post below will very useful and helpful for all AutoCAD users. Enjoy it and start learning right now!
We’re very sure that almost all AutoCAD experts users need a keyboard shortcut to cycle to the next layout tab. This ‘AutoCAD Tips to Use Keyboard Shortcuts for Cycling Through Layout Tabs’ will give us important keyboard shortcuts that have beneficial purpose to cycle to the next layout tab of your AutoCAD. Here are the shortcuts:
- Hold down the CTRL+Page Up key to go to the next page to the right.
- Hold down the CTRL+Page Down key to go to the next page to the left.
Insert an Excel Spreadsheet into an AutoCAD Drawing quickly
The following AutoCAD Tutorial post, have a title ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Insert an Excel Spreadsheet into an AutoCAD Drawing quickly’. We hope this ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Insert an Excel Spreadsheet into an AutoCAD Drawing quickly’ post below will very useful and helpful for all AutoCAD users. Enjoy it and start learning right now!
We’re very sure that almost all AutoCAD users have ever need to add an Excel spreadsheet to their AutoCAD drawing. Here’s ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Insert an Excel Spreadsheet into an AutoCAD Drawing quickly’ that will step by step explain an easy way to add any amount of a spreadsheet you want into your AutoCAD drawing:
- Open Excel and highlight the cells that you want to insert into your drawing.
- Make sure you don’t select the upper left corner between the row and column designators,
- Only the individual cells!
- Right-click and pick Copy from the popup list.
- Return to your drawing file in AutoCAD and from the Edit menu choose Paste Special.
- In the dialogue box select AutoCAD entities and pick OK.
- You can now paste the cells where ever you like.
- The process is so easy that the linking ability doesn’t even need to be evoked.
- Very easy! Isn’t it?
Toggle Ortho Mode with the SHIFT Key
The following AutoCAD Tips & Tricks post, have a title ‘AutoCAD Tips to Toggle Ortho Mode with the SHIFT Key’. We hope this ‘AutoCAD Tips to Toggle Ortho Mode with the SHIFT Key’ post below will very useful and helpful for all AutoCAD users. Enjoy it and start learning right now!
Did you ever notice that if you hold down the Shift key too long the ORTHO mode changes to the opposite of what the current setting is? Yes, that right, you can hold down the Shift key while in a command and change the ORTHO setting temporarily. This ‘AutoCAD Tips to Toggle Ortho Mode with the SHIFT Key’ will give a short explanation on how to toggle Ortho mode with the SHIFT key. Here are the ways on this ‘AutoCAD Tips to Toggle Ortho Mode with the SHIFT Key’:
- A classic example of when to use this great function is when you have ORTHO turned on
- And need to move a selection set in a non-ortho direction
- And then go back to using commands with ORTHO on.
- A small graphic symbol will also appear at the cursor crosshair intersection
- When you are using this trick to let you know visually
- If you are holding down the Shift key.
- Well done! Very easy, isn’t it?