AutoCAD 13 and higher versions

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Due to the fact that Erhan Toker cannot make the example of gasket drawing that he has given in his live sections article , he just said that Orhan will do it. Indeed, as I made the drawing and gave him, I will show the application. We have taken the drawing for 3 dimensional example from book of our teacher Prof. Mustafa Alışverişçi from Yıldız Technical University (İstanbul-1989.edition) Figure II. (see Fig. 1) Read the rest of this entry »

AutoCAD 2000 and higher versions

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Today, I want to mention how TRIM command which is a living and useful command of AutoCAD can be used more effectively. First, let us start with remembering the command. TRIM is used for clipping the extended parts of any intersecting line group. The basic and common use of the command is that cutting object(s) is(are) selected first and then the one(s) to be trimmed. To end the process, one has to press ‘Enter’.

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Most of us use Outlook Express (comes with Windows) for managing our e-mails. Some new security features were added with Sp2 Attachment Manager. Searching attachments and preventing possible threats from being opened is one of them. This option is turned on as default option. You have to turn it off if you want to access the video, music, picture and application files sent to you.

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You sometimes want to insert layers of a drawing to the one you use at the moment. It is very easy actually. Browse the drawing that contains layers you want like ‘BLOCK’ with INSERT command. When an insertion point is requested, press ESC and quit from the command. You will see all layers of the inserted drawing are now in the one you currently use. You may also erase the drawing after insert it.

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AutoCAD 12 and higher versions

Since AutoCAD 12, there is a module that will make the geometrical calculations. However, this command, which is not added to user interface and can only be accessed from the command line, has not been very popular among users. Nevertheless, AutoDESK continued to support this feature and upgraded it as tool palette together with the new versions. In article Surprise egg in AutoCAD: QUICKCALC written by Orhan Toker, he explains about calculator but he did not mention about the geometrical functions. In this article, I will explain about the geometrical functions and give an example for one of them (Fig. 1). Read the rest of this entry »

AutoCAD 2007 and higher versions

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One of the features that will improve your productivity in AutoCAD is using editing functions more efficiently. In near future, we are planning to write more about editing commands and achieving them under AutoCAD lessons title. However, before learning editing commands in detail, it is more important to learn how to efficiently select the entities over which editing will be made. My 18 year experience in AutoCAD, says that first step of using editing commands efficiently is good knowledge of selecting entities.

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Dear Bloggers,

I have mentioned a small and fast PDF writer program to printout your documents in my last article. Now, I am introducing you a free and simple program used for speeding up the windows start-up. The name of the program is Quick Startup. Actually it is very much like the window appears when you type MSCONFIG in run menu, yet its use is simpler and it allows back-up.

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All AutoLISP versions

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Since this is my fist article on this site, I want to share a LISP, which I have created in the very beginning of my AutoCAD history. The aim of the program is to search a defined area and perform mathematical operations in the found text objects with number entries. I have written this program because I have had to change lots of elevation entries since the datum is set wrong. Since chancing them one by one means a serious time, it helped me a lot. I hope it will help you too.

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All AutoCAD versions

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I am going to try to explain ‘COPY’ of the command series. It is one of the most living and fundamental commands in AutoCAD. You can run the command via toolbar or typing ‘copy’ or ‘co’ into the command line.

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I am hung up on small but useful programs nowadays. I will mention Foxit Reader to read your PDF files. Yet, I am not using this program to get PDF printouts. The best result in Windows XP operating system can be obtained by CutePDF.

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