Tips & Tools Weekly (Vol. 12, No. 41)
11 Nov, 2007Editor's note: Tips & Tools Weekly will take next week off for a holiday break. We will resume publishing the following Monday, November 26. The staff at Cadalyst wishes you and your family a safe and happy Thanksgiving. This Week's Software Tips Get the Code! Be Among the First to Sport a New Cadalyst T-shirt DWG Demon Exorcism "It performs a Purge All twice, runs an audit, turns the grid off, runs a zoom extents, and finishes with a Qsave:
"I thought about adding a tilemode reference to make sure that the drawing was always in paper space before the Qsave. There are still a few users out there who do everything in model space, so I left that out for now. "With the advent of Visual BASIC, .NET, and Visual LISP, the simplicity of stringing together a number of commands is often overlooked. By the way, those 40 MB files that we got from the architect ended up being between 3 MB and 5 MB when this routine was finished with them." NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: There are various ways to clean up drawings, and this tip does the job. If you plan to use this function to replace Qsave, you might want to add some error-handling code that ensures that the Qsave function actually runs. If the script bombs out before Qsave executes, you might think you have saved when in fact, you have not. Flag Those F Keys NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: Not a bad idea. One Tip Patrol member adds, "At our office, we customize all our F keys (except F8), and we distribute a paper template for the keyboards to remind users what the F keys do." Follow-Up: Invisible Xrefs MicroStation Tip: Named Groups, Display Sets, and Quick Sets Axiom offers many Microstation Tips on its MicroStationTips.com Web site.
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