ACAD 2005 - TIPS 3

[SeanSweeney]

HELP - MY BOSS CAME TO ME TODAY AND ASKED IF I COULD GIVE SOME OF THE OTHERS I WORK WITH A BIT OF TEACHING REGARDING ACAD. THEY CAN ALL USE IT BUT PRETTY MUCH ONLY THE THINGS WE SEE ON THE SURFACE. I HAD THOUGHT TO TALK ABOUT SILLY THINGS LIKE 2 LINES IN DIMENSION TEXT AND BACKGROUND IN MTEXT - NOTHING MUCH JUST BASICS WHICH ARENT SO OBVIOUS - THE PROBLEM IS:

I NEED SOME OTHER SUGGESTIONS OF SMALL CLEVER STUFF OTHERWISE I'LL RUN OUT AFTER 10 MINUTES.

THANKS

 

[lpseifert]

Are you asking for tips specific to 2005, or tips for acad in general?
You could suck up a lot of time discussing Tool Palettes (e.g. block management, text styles, macros, etc.)

Acad2005, Terramodel

 

[SeanSweeney]

We have 2005 so thats the limit upwards (not 2006) but anything down to the begining or at least R14

 

[thalon]

Tip 1.
when in a command you and type
'cal
to go into the calulator to do real math
ie. drawing a line that is 15.4/5 long

Tip 2
In MTEXT (2005+) if you right click near the bottom of the list that appears is a selection called symbol for inserting special, common, characters. ie Centerline, Angle, Delta, Ohm, Diameter, Degree

Tip 3
If the Mtext in the Mtext editor (2005+) is too small, or too large, hold the ctrl buttom and scroll the mouse wheel to change it's size. This only changes the displayed size in the editor window, and does not affect the object size. nor does the editor window retain the size of text you like to read, unless you changes the system variable MTEXTFIXED (0 = open sized and places beased on the mtext selected; 1 = fixed editor size and location)

Tip 4
You cannot select entiries on Defpoints layer if layer 0 (zero) is frozen or turned off. You can still see the entites on defpoints, but you can't do anything to them.

I look forward to seeing some tips from others.

 

[BubbaJ]

This is helpful if you use hatches. All hatches are inserted with their base point at 0,0. Even though you can't see it. Sometimes this can result in less than useful or incorrect (as in brick hatches in building elevations) hatches. You can move the "insertion" point by typing "snapbase" and then selecting a new point, like a hatch boundary point. Then insert your hatch.

 

[elev8848]

Use of fraction (stacked text):

Example
In the mtext editor,
Type in "xyz/mno"
highlight it
then click on button with "a/b" on text formatting toolbar

you get stacked text.

 

[JStephen]

Okay...zooming the text in the Mtext editor..when I do the wheel thingy, it does zoom in- but the zoom point isn't centered in the text, so it can zoom the text right off the screen...then when I hit "OK", it leaves me at that zoom...what am I doing wrong here?

 

[thalon]

Tip 5
Fractions in mtext
1/2 gives you a vertically stacked fraction
1#2 gives you a horizontally stacked fraction
1^2 gives you a vertically stacked fraction with out the line. the text infront of the ^ becoms superscript, and the text after the ^ becomes subscript

All of the above require you to click on the "a/b" button on the formatting bar, of have autostack turned on.

Tip 6
when editing mtext if you press "ctrl+enter" keys it will exit the editor. A little faster then always having to click the OK button.


Zooming the drawing while in the mtext editor only works in 2006. Does the centerpoint of you zoom not change when you move the mouse around?


This is fun.

 

[JStephen]

"Does the centerpoint of you zoom not change when you move the mouse around?" Yes it does, and I didn't realize it, that was the part I was missing. Thanks!