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This month's Corner marks the end of an era. I've been running the CADTutor website for 20 years and for the last 14 of those I've been ably assisted in that endeavour by Michael Beall who has consistently provided content of the highest quality. Michael has written almost 600 articles for CADTutor in close to 150 monthly columns. If Autodesk are listening, they should probably give him a medal for services to AutoCAD. I'm constantly surprised and delighted by how generous people are when sharing information, wisdom and experience on the Web and Michael is a prime example of how Tim Berners-Lee hoped people would share their knowledge. Thank you Michael for all you've done for the CADTutor community.
So, for Michael's final corner we have articles on modifying the action of the F1 key, no less than 3 Power Tool articles, including tips on zooming with your mouse, background hatch colours and text frames for Mtext. As always, these articles are designed to help you work smarter, not harder. I hope you find them useful.
CADTutor itself is staying put and we have a few new things planned for 2017, so stay tuned. And don't forget that all of Michael's Corners are still available at CADTutor for your future reference.
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Lots of people think that when you have blocks saved in a Tool Palette, you have to
each individual block to apply custom settings. What if you have 20 blocks and you want them all to have the same setting? Well, just hold Ctrl and highlight the blocks you want within the Tool Palette, then right click on any of the selected blocks to apply global settings.Also, you can hold the Ctrl button to select your first block, then hold the Shift button to select the last block, then right click on any of the selected blocks to apply a global settings. Makes things much easier than one at a time.
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