Tips & Tools Weekly (Vol. 13, No. 38)
12 Oct, 2008This Week's Software Tips Don't Be Afraid of Change NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: Metes and Bounds List NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: Export Layout Command in AutoCAD 2009 "The routine creates a new drawing file that has all of the model space entities that were visible in the viewport trimmed out to the viewport limits, and also all of the entities that were in paper space of that viewport moved to model space. So you wind up with a drawing that has only model space entities in it. It doesn't include any of the previous model space entities that were outside of the viewable limits of the original viewport. It basically compresses the layout into only model space entities. "We find that many of our clients use non-AutoCAD programs that cannot use the paper space advantages of AutoCAD, so we have to compress them into just model space. This tip also comes in handy if you want to have a drawing file of just one layout sheet of a submittal set, and you don't want to send more information than what they really need. If you are working in AutoCAD Civil 3D, the Civil 3D objects are converted to polylines, text, etc., during the process as well, so that eliminates the problem of some clients' not being able to work with the Civil objects." NOTES FROM CADALYST TIP PATROL: Note: Follow-up tips have not been tested by the Cadalyst Tip Patrol. Follow-Up: Outer Limit Follow-Up: Scaling Distorted Objects In response to the same tip, Cadalyst contributing editor and "Learning Curve" tutorial author Bill Fane wrote, "When you insert a raster image such as a BMP or JPG file into an AutoCAD drawing, you can only set the overall scale factor. You cannot set X and Y independently if you want a distorted image, or to correct for distortion in the original image. Tip: Insert the image, make a block of it, then insert the block with different X and Y scale factors. 'Voila!' as R.T Reinhart said of the original tip. This is not an original tip from me. I picked it up at a Vancouver AutoCAD Users Society meeting several years ago, courtesy of Bob Boel." MicroStation Tip: Let Go of Your Mouse!
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