I am going to touch on two system variables in this article that will be useful for you. These are MBUTTONPAN and ZOOMFACTOR.

MBUTTONPAN: Autocad users mostly use the mouse scroll to pan or zoom. It zooms in when you spin the scroll towards you and zooms out when you spin it towards the monitor. Holding it pushed also enables the pan command. Yet, some computers have some trouble about these properties because of a small setting of Autocad. If your computer does not do the things mentioned above, set the system variable MBUTTONPAN to 1 by typing the command (mbuttonpan) into the command line. If it is “0” , Object Snap Menu will appear when you push the scroll.

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All AutoLISP versions

In my previous article, I have explained the ‘*error*’ function among the error explanatory functions seen in Table 1. The subjects of this article however are ‘alert’, ‘exit’ and ‘quit’ functions.

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All AutoLISP versions

When an error occurred in the AutoLISP functions, a meaningless message appears in the command line and the function stops to run. Although the LISP programming language is very flexible, it is insufficient considering this point. Thus, I am going to try explaining these errors by preparing a feuilleton (series of articles). Firstly, let us take a look at the error handling functions of AutoLISP (Figure 1).

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AutoCAD 12 and higher versions

MINSERT, which is one of the unthought-of commands of Autocad, can be very useful sometimes. Command consists of the first letter of ‘Multiple’ word and ‘Insert’ word. I think you understand a familiar word when you hear the INSERT command. We are going to insert blocks but multiple ones at a time. The best example for the situation is always the roof tiles.

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Prepared with AutoCAD 2007

Note: This article was prepared by using AutoCAD 2007. It may have discrepancies with previous versions.

When we look at the comments coming from users and reading numbers, it is understood that we have to explain scale and plotting in detail. Indeed, as you will understand from this article it is quite and easy work to do. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear friends,

It is possible to draw the figure below by using only the CIRCLE command and a few editing commands. Drawing the figure together, you are going to learn how to use the CIRCLE command.

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As a guest author on this blog, I share information about offerings from Autodesk Labs that are related to AutoCAD.

Need a way to share your 3D and 2D DWG drawings with others easily from within AutoCAD 2008 or 2009? Do you want to hold real-time design review sessions where others can see your drawings? Do you need a way to gather feedback from others who don’t have CAD viewers installed?

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AutoCAD 12 and higher versions

In very crowded drawings, sometimes gets hard to select some specific entities. For example, selecting all of the beds in a hospital drawing, selecting all of the spillways in a dam drawing, or as you will see in the example given here, selecting all of the cabinets on the bottom Read the rest of this entry »

All AutoCAD versions

Hi dear bloggers,

I try to explain the COPY command which is one of the most basic and living command in Autocad. You can run the command via toolbar or typing ‘COPY’ or ‘CO’ into the command line.

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AutoCAD 2002 and higher versions. MS Office 2000-2003

Hello,

I’ll try to explain my SCRIPT generation methode in Microsoft Excel. In the attachment, you will find an XLS file and an example lisp file. Test.xls and Purgea.lsp.

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