Forum: AutoCAD 2D Drafting, Object Properties & Interface

Anybody here know where to find a floor plan plus the elevation plan to practice drawing using autocad??:D

I need to export a CAD drawing to EPS for the graphic design to work in illustrator. The CAD contains 5 x-ref. After export. The Illustrator cannot open the drawing, but saying: The operation cannot...

Hello All, After trawling the help file and several other CAD forums I still haven't been able to find an easy to use solution to my prob. First post newbie and all, I'd be grateful for anyone's...

hi all genious ppl.. i want points from excel sheet to have a curve in auto cad ..bt i dont want to type those pts each time as the quantity is very big....so can i import the data directly in auto...

Hi -- I'm having problems w/object properties toolbar. All of a sudden it stopped working - shows me a blank palette and says "no selection" regardless of what is selected. Also, Quick...

hello, I am trying to rotate something from one angle to another. I can clearly see that there is a difference between the two angles. It is probably less than one degree. But when I use the...

Greetings, my first post. I use ACAD LT 2008 in my own office, and spend a couple days a week at a client's office, where they use the full version of ACAD 2006. When I create mulitleaders in 2008...

Ok so trying to get to grips with these and so and they are working ok. The Annotative is very good and each time i want to use a different annotative scale i pick it from the list. But how do i stop...

GAH! I am drawing a partial wall section of some open web steel joists. I need to finish this drawing fast and I have been stuck for hours now! So I am drawing the W-shaped webs of the steel...

IS THERE ANY WAY TO MAKE Symbols and Special Characters WORK WITH STENCIL.SHX?

I use closed filled leaders and sometimes randomly all the leaders in a dwg will change from closed filled to something like the closed blank but not quiet. instead of the line starting from the...

Hello. I am trying to recreate a linetype i had seen on a set of civil drawings. It is a dotted line where the spacing of the dots respond to the radius of the line. In the drawing I had seen,...

Is there some way, a hidden variable somewhere perhaps, that will allow the display of alternate units below the dimension line? I know I can select in the dimension dialogue box to have the...

is there a way to add (E) to all selected mtext, or even all mtext in a dwg? Most of the mtext doesnt have the same text within. any suggestions would be great

hi, Is there an command that i can easely select (p)lines only? I quickly want to change linescales and other properties, but the lines have texts with it in the same layer. If i have to exclude...

is there any way when i double click on attribute make command attedit run?

I am a new, solitary Autocad Mechanical 2008 user in this office. I need help removing unused linetypes from the completely empty template file that came with Autocad. I did the purge that I read...

when i write text like %%uMR MAN%%u the line under text appear not straight WHY?

I have a drawing where my arrow heads are on one drawing and the tale is on a different layers, so is my dimensions arrows. It usually is on some “bad” layer, I used laytrans with the hope that it...

Hi I'm using a title block (created in a full version of Auto CAD) with Auto CAD LT 2009. The Attributes within the title block have text sizes that I wish to alter, I can do this easily...