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Michael’s Corner - December 2013

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It's Autodesk University, and Michael Beall is presenting! So, to accompany his session, this month's Corner gives you some extra coverage of the topics under consideration, namely, configuring your AutoCAD interface to optimize your efficiency. Learn how to backup your settings because… well you never know, and how to take full control of the Ribbon.

For those of you who can't make it to Las Vegas (and let's face it, that's most of us!) we hope this month's Corner will at least give you a flavour of the event.

This month also marks a change in schedule for Michael's Corner. Starting this month, we're moving to a bi-monthly publication (every other month). This gives Michael more time to create great content and to do a few other things. After 10 years of monthly articles, I think that's perfectly reasonable.

Have a fantastic festive season and watch out for the next Corner in February 2014.

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Cycling through grip modes

When you have a grip selected, the normal mode is to stretch the selected object and AutoCAD displays ** STRETCH ** on the command line to let you know. But did you know that by hitting <Enter> you can cycle through the other grip modes - move, rotate, scale and mirror?

This is a really efficient way of working and means you can spend less time clicking the buttons on the Modify toolbar and more time editing.

Today's tip is by dbroada

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