What’s Plot Style in Layer Properties Manager?

Users who are familiar with Plot Settings may know Plot style table, which is used to control the plotted color, lineweight, etc.  

Double-click editing not working for blocks or text?

There are many objects in CAD that become editable after double-click, such as text, hatch, blocks. But there are times when you just can’t enable editing with double-click. There are some possible causes.

Tips & tricks for Revision cloud

When checking or inspecting drawings, we usually need revision cloud to mark the objects to be modified. Revision cloud is a special polyline that is easy-to-use.

How to move objects with arrow keys?

You can use the up and down arrow keys to look up the commands you have used before, and press Enter to repeat the commands you have executed before.

What’s the difference between ALL and EXTENTS in ZOOM command?

What’s the difference between ALL and EXTENTS in ZOOM command? All option zooms to display all visible objects and visual aids.

How to create freehand line segments with Sketch command?

Sometimes we may need to create irregular objects and it would be troublesome to create them directly with line or polyline commands.

How to set properties of objects to ByLayer?

We’ve heard a lot of complaints about how unstandardized drawing files cause headache. For example, many properties are not set to Bylayer, making it very troublesome to edit and adjust the drawings.

What’s the difference between ALL and EXTENTS in ZOOM command?

All zooms to display all visible objects and visual aids.

How to restore missing ribbon or toolbar?

There are many reasons for missing ribbon or toolbar, it could be incomplete installation of your CAD, or customization file corrupted. The following provides some of the solutions.

Can I keep a text style and use it for other drawings?

Text styles are saved within drawings, so although we cannot directly save them from the drawing, we can use different ways to extract text styles from drawings.