RefMan A Shy but Powerful AutoCAD Tool
How can you update and re-path AutoCAD drawing reference files such as other drawing files, fonts, or plot configuration files after a path has changed?
Reference Manager is the answer.
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20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
How can you update and re-path AutoCAD drawing reference files such as other drawing files, fonts, or plot configuration files after a path has changed?
Reference Manager is the answer.

Have you ever wanted all the images you captured in Snagit to be saved elsewhere in another format than .snag formats? This is one of those Snagit tricks that are not well known but are seriously powerful like the custom export option to create an animated Gif from the other Techsmith must have application Camtasia.
Perhaps you are a designer, manager, or trainer working on standards, documentation, or presentation or perhaps an author capturing thousands of images like Donnie Gladfelter author of “AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required” and have left all those images managed by Snagit but now want to export all the book related captures to a directory for safe keeping or perhaps all your images for the entire year of 2010.

Problem: Ellipses and Splines are ignored by the Presspull command when used as island boundary objects.
Workaround: Turn off Selection Preview.

Word to the Wise: Workspaces.
Workspace definition (per the Help menu): Workspaces are sets of menus, toolbars, palettes, and ribbon control panels that are grouped and organized so that you can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment.

I received the following question today while in my hotel room in LA and wanted to write a blog post with images to make the solution more clear, and perhaps assist others with the same question.
“My background in paper space is white with color lines, I want change color lines to black lines, I did once but is impossible to remember how I did it.”
What we want to do is change the Layouts Plot Style to black and white which is “monochrome”, and then select the option to show the Layout with the applied plot Style just as it will plot.

For all you veteran AutoCAD users out there who like to TYPE most of your commands (and want to type C to launch Copy), this is for you.
How to Modify Your Command Aliases
1.. On the Manage tab >Customization panel, click Edit Aliases to open the file ACAD.PGP in the Windows Notepad.

Guest post by Jeff Bartels @JeffBartels. If you would like to publish a guest article on this blog about AutoCAD please email me at shaan@autodesk.com. This is a great way to be seen by over 20,000+ people daily for free.…

As a follow-up to the posting How to Change the AutoCAD Layout Background Color earlier this week in response to a Twitter request. I showed how to change the Layout paper background color. But what if you just want a solid black background in Layout with no paper like Modelspace, here is the solution.

I received a question on Twitter today asking how to change the AutoCAD 2011 background color of the Layout.
The default color of the paper in a Layout is white, but perhaps you would like it to blue or maybe black.

This post on cad-notes.com has to be the best AutoCAD blog post I have seen this year.