Michael’s Corner
Michael's Corner is a monthly publication written by Michael E. Beall, Autodesk Authorized Author and peripatetic AutoCAD trainer. Michael travels all over the USA, bringing his fantastic experience and great understanding of AutoCAD to his clients. Michael's Corner brings together many of the tips, tricks and methods developed during these training sessions for the benefit of all users.
Michael's Corner provides something for every AutoCAD user. Every month, a number of articles cover a wide range of topics, suitable for users at all levels, including "The Basics" for those just starting out. Essentially, the aim of Michael's Corner is to help all AutoCAD users work smarter and faster.
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January - Oh-One/One-Two
I'm sure there's a math major out there that could make something clever out of that sequence – like the next pair would be Two-Three – and some probably want to state it as 'Zero-One'. Bottom line, the point of the exercise was accomplished: Get you thinking about your new year, 2012!
To that end, this month has some tips I picked up at Autodesk University – although I did teach my Hands-On lab twice (shown here, photo courtesy of H. Hernandez, Southwest Airlines), I did attend several sessions – as well as a few from my customers, to wit…
…Fun with AutoCAD 2012 Applications from Autodesk Exchange
…Make a Dynamic Block by Adding a Rotation Parameter
…The somewhat inconspicuous View controls in A2012
…Random productivity features from my customers
Of course, I hope this finds you back on track, several days into the New Year, and looking forward to all that it has in store.
Forward and onward into the 10th year of Michael's Corner!
This month's articles
Autodesk Exchange Apps for AutoCAD
Adding a Rotation Parameter to a Block
A2012 View Controls
This Year, Resolve to Use…
From the Vault
SETBYLAYER
Sometimes you get drawings that are a bit confusing, mainly because the Colors of objects are not set to ByLayer.
The SETBYLAYER command automates the assignment of object properties - such as the Color - to ByLayer. In the images, you see the Hatch object has the Color property set to White.
Instructions for SETBYLAYER
- Type SETBYLAYER, then press [Enter] or go to Modify
Change to ByLayer. Since this command has no button, you may want to make a button for it. Check out the Odd Spot in April 2007. - Select the object(s) to modify, then press [Enter]. Take the default option of
on the following prompts:
Change ByBlock to ByLayer? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Include blocks? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
At the completion of those prompts, the properties of the selected objects will be configured to ByLayer. Works great on blocks, hatches, and dimensions.
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- The JOIN Command
- Command Line Color
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