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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This month…
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
No Ortho or Polar with Wipeout
The Wipeout routine has been in pre-A2004 Express Tools and was then incorporated into the command structure of A2004 and A2005. Curiously, if you have not created a polyline to convert into a wipeout object and simply go with the default procedure of picking points for the wipeout object… Ortho and Polar cannot be enabled.
Solution?
Create a polyline first (using Ortho and/or Polar), then select that shape when using the default <Polyline> option of the Wipeout command.
Tip: Since the wipeout object has a frame of its own (and an option by which to turn the wipeout frame On or Off), when prompted to Erase the Polyline, enter Yes.
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- The JOIN Command
- Command Line Color
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- Layer Walk: the 'Hold Se…
- Stacking Fractions in Mt…
- A2012 Preview Feature fo…
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- Color Scheme: Light or D…
- Xref Layer Insights
- Hatch Selected Objects f…
- Viewport Plot Scale
- Another Command Line Ins…
- A2011 Ribbon Cycling But…
