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This month Michael Beall is on tour. "Nothing new there", I hear you say. But, in addition to his official NeoCon seminar in Chicago, he will be presenting his AutoCAD Toolbelt seminar on June 12th. If you happen to be in Chicago on that day, pop along and say "hi".
In this month's Corner, Michael looks at some cool features of the AutoCAD drawing's fundamental components, namely, Layers, Text and Blocks, including an introduction to AutoCAD 2014's new Merge Layers tool.
So, check out all the juicy goodness of this month's Corner and don't forget we have an archive of over 10 years of Corners for you to browse at your leisure.
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Sometimes you need to repeat a command lots of times and it can be a bit tedious doing the usual and or even using the Enter (
) key on the keyboard. It would be really useful if you could just keep a command auto-repeating until you hit the Escape (Esc) key. Well, you can. All you need to do is make a small change to the CUI.
For example, say you want to draw lots of circles and have the circle command auto-repeat so that you can just pick center, radius, center, radius etc. Here's what you do:
Try the circle command and see what happens.
This technique can be used with most commands. For example, if you are doing a lot of dimensioning, you could auto-repeat the Linear Dimension command so that you can draw all your dimensions without breaking stride.
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