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[fuccaro]

This works begining with AutoCAD 2006:
Enter in the command line the first letter of the command you wish to start. Begin to press TAB and watch the commands proposed by AutoCAD. When the right command appears in the command line -press ENTER to start it.
I don't work in this way but I use to play with this from time to time; try it yourself and you will discover that AutoCAD has a lot of commands...
Also you can press SHIFT+TAB to walk back in the list.

[Seann]

Oh yeah I like that one. It is nice when you remember part of the command but not the rest.
By the way, if our tip gets used one day are we going to get told "Hey you tip is getting used today". Just wondering

[fuccaro]

It is nice when you remember part of the command but not the rest.

Yes, but it must be the first part the one you remember. You can enter LI and press TAB until the LINE command comes in the command line, but *INE wil never start the same command

[CADTutor]

By the way, if our tip gets used one day are we going to get told "Hey you tip is getting used today". Just wondering

Good idea. I just re-wrote the script so that the tip author gets an email when the tip is published.

[CADTutor]

Hey, we've got some great tips so far but we need more to keep things fresh, so post your tip here and see your name in lights... well, y'know what I mean.

[WagglyFawn]

(Let me know if there's actually a different way of doing this in new versions or if it's at all necessary. I'd hate to post the world's most pointless tip.)

For those of us who choose to keep our 3D modeling to ONE viewport (we may be a rare breed), here is an easy tip to speed things along. On the "UCS" toolbar open up the macro scripts for the X,Y, and Z rotate buttons. Do this by right-clicking any toolbar, selecting customize, and right-clicking the button you want to edit the macro for.

The macros should look like this... "^C^C_ucs _x ".
At the end of this command, add one extra space and save the change. Do this for each of the three UCS rotate buttons. Now whenever you need your UCS to match the plane you wish to work on next, all you do is click!

[dbroada]

I've posted this before and people appeared impressed so lets give it another airing.....

Do you get fed up having to set your fillet alternately to a value then 0 to get a right angle?

You don't have to! Just fillet your lines while holding down SHIFT and the fillet radius value will be ignored.

[AMANDALEE]

Thanks Dave.....Im always amazed at how these simple tips can add up to a smoother flow at work. Now all I have to do is remember them !!
Amanda.........

[CromCruithne]

Very Nice dbroada, I use fillet constantly, so that's extremely useful.

-Crom

[CADTutor]

Thanks for all the tips so far guys. They're in a database and will be rotated. You'll receive an email when yours is published but...

We need more. Let's have your favourite AutoCAD tips - simple or complex, it doesn't matter and you can see by the reaction to the Shift+Fillet tip that we all have lots to learn.