You can assign lineweights in AutoCAD by using the Lineweight layer property or using a plot-style table inside your page setup with the Plot command. Find out how from Lynn Allen at Cadalyst.ĥ.
With right-click customization, you can have the best of both worlds. Navigating Through Commands Quickly With Right-Click Customization.Before AutoCAD 2000, right-clicking automatically meant “Enter.” Post-AutoCAD 2000, right-clicking brought up shortcut menus. Read more from Shaan Hurley at All Things Autodesk and Technology.Ĥ. AUDIT, PURGE, -PURGE and -OVERKILL will slim that DWG file down. Be careful you are not removing things you actually need at some point, like an unreferenced dimension style or block. There are some commands in AutoCAD that you can use to get rid of file-bloating references. CadGodinTraining tells us about an even quicker and easier method to use Osnaps in a viewport.ģ. Osnaps can be used in a viewport, too! Use shift+right-click once inside your viewport to bring up endpoints and other Osnaps.
There are more special Osnaps, such as “mid between two points,” too. The points are center, endpoint, midpoint, intersection, insert, nearest, node, perpendicular, and quadrant. Osnaps allow you to select positions on components in a drawing for locating other features. It was a short-lived Buzzsaw/AutoCAD plugin, retired not long after the utility was developed.1. In some common folder structure situations, the utility failed to appropriately convert the path, but at least it was a good try and the 1st indication that I saw that Autodesk was even aware of the need. One of the tools in the AutoCAD plugin, was a tool to convert XREF paths to be relative. Interesting, in an early incarnation of Buzzsaw, they had a Buzzsaw/ProjectPoint plugin for AutoCAD, which was great for automatically posting DWGs up to Buzzsaw. But I guess I need to hang onto it for a while longer. I keep waiting for my utility, written over 7 years ago, to become moot.
AUTOCAD AUTOMATICALLY LOCAD XREF FULL
I wrote an XRP (Xref Relative Path) utility way back in R14 AutoCAD, that automatically converts full XREF and IMAGE paths to be relative. the younger people today have no concept of this. CAD veterans from the old DOS days know what. And if the folder structure is complicated, it can admitted be difficult in figuring this out.
AUTOCAD AUTOMATICALLY LOCAD XREF HOW TO
I find that most users have no clue about how to edit the path manually to strip out the unnecessary part. But there’s no way to easily and automatically convert existing FULL xref paths to relative ones, after the fact. AutoCAD began addressing relative paths with R2004, when attaching an XREF. But I see that they have not, and you’ve given the tip of just backspacing the upper level path info, leaving the appropriate. I got excited when I saw this blog title, thinking that maybe AutoCAD 2007 has finally fully implemented relative paths. It sure would be nice to have a tool inside AutoCAD (not on the Start Menu) that would do this quickly. If you have to back up two folders before going into a subfolder the use two sets of dots “.\.” Be sure to leave the backslash after the two dots. Now – just type in two dots “.” in place of that full path and hit Enter. Select the XREF you need to change and highlight the area of the path that you need to change. Here is how to change it once it is set in 2007. This only appears when you are actually loading the file the first time. Open the XREF palette or Dialog box and look for the Path type option. Here is where you set it in AutoCAD 2007. Relative Paths will ensure that the file is found in the future in more cases that Full Path. So it starts looking by backing out of the folder of the host (the two dots) and moves into subfolders to find the XREF.īoth ways will find the file when you first load it. Relative Paths start from the location of the host file and moves to where the XREF file is located. If the drive letter changes because you move the project or you send the files to someone else and they do not put the files in the exact locations (including drive letter) that you did – the file does not load in AutoCAD. So it starts from the “C” drive – or wherever and travels down the tree to find the DWG file. I have had so many users who have had troubles with projects and delivering files because they used Hard Coded Paths (Full Path) for Xrefs.įull Path stores the location of the file that you have attached starting from the drive letter and moving down the tree to where the file is located.Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\mkiker\My Documents\Acad2007\XREF\Wall Base.dwg
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