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Michael’s Corner - December/January 2015

Making it Happen at Autodesk University 2014!

Yet another year has flown by at CADTutor and I'd like to thank Michael for another excellent year of tips, tricks and general AutoCAD wisdom—if you've managed to get tickets for one of Michael's sessions at Autodesk University, you're in for a treat. I'd also like to thank you, our loyal readers and supporters. CADTutor only exists because you keep coming back to the site, and as long as that continues, so will the site.

This month's Corner is a Christmas variety box (whatever happened to them?) of treats. The main article provides a technique for the automation of viewport scales, something which many of you will find genuinely useful. Other articles cover pan and zoom tricks, how to make life easier when your drawing ‘disappears’ after Zoom Extents and a reminder about drawing time and drawing properties—an often forgotten resource.

Have a great festive holiday and New Year celebrations and here's looking forward to an even better year in 2015. We'll be back early in February with more AutoCAD tips and tricks.

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Tab through commands

This tip works begining with AutoCAD 2006:

At the command line, type the first letter of the command you wish to start. Do not press (ENTER); instead, press the TAB key repeatedly and watch as AutoCAD runs through an alphabetical list of all commands, beginning with the letter you first typed. When the right command appears in the command line, press to start it.

This isn't a very efficient way to invoke a command but it's a great way of finding commands you never knew existed; try it yourself and you will discover that AutoCAD has a lot of commands…

Also, you can press SHIFT+TAB to walk back through the list.

Today's tip is by fuccaro

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