What's your favourite ACAD prank?

[troma]

Do you like to mess with your coworkers' minds?  What do you do?  Set MBUTTONPAN to 0?  I'll tell you my favourite later.  What's yours?

[KLYPHY]

I should have mentioned that this joke No. 1 was from:

From AutoCAD Message Board: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06 - 18:54(GMT) in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs”

[CADiva]

Ah, the good ol' Kaypro II ... I remember how great it was to be able to two discs in: the one for software and the one with the file I was working on.  Fun times ... 🙂

[KLYPHY]

You all must be being productive and not having time to list your favorite AutoCAD Pranks.

So, I'll step in. Here are Nos. 3 & 4:

03 -Zoom in really tight on a blank drawing area, set snap to 100. (similar to 02)

From AutoCAD Message Board: C O Jones: Jul/20/06-19:06(GMT) in “in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs” by: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06-18:54(GMT)

04 -Copy a piece of text, “.” a long long way from the model. Zoom extents.

From AutoCAD Message Board: C O Jones: Jul/20/06-19:06(GMT) in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs” by: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06-18:54(GMT)

[troma]

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@KLYPHY wrote:

You all must be being productive and not having time to list your favorite AutoCAD Pranks.

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I'm all out! I put mine in earlier.  Good to see there's some life left in this old thread I started over a year and a half ago. Keep them coming, it's good reading! 

[KLYPHY]

Thank  you to troma for starting this string.

Here's the 5th Joke from my file:

05 -ucs rotate, then ucsicon off.

From AutoCAD Message Board: C O Jones: Jul/20/06-19:06(GMT) in “in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs” by: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06-18:54(GMT)

I no longer know if #6 works, so, I'm no including it.

Here's No. 7;

07 -xclip the xrefs:

I would xclip down to a very small empty area. Also, set XCLIPFRAME to “0”.   They can see the xref in the XREF list, but not on the screen.

From AutoCAD Message Board: C O Jones: Jul/20/06-19:06(GMT) in “in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs” by: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06-18:54(GMT) with additional instructions by Me.

[troma]

#7, now that's dirty!

[KLYPHY]

Of the 43 Pranks I've accumulated, some no longer work. No. 8 is one of those.

No. 9 is too simple, but still, may cause momentary confusion.

No. 9: -qtext, regenall

From AutoCAD Message Board: C O Jones: Jul/20/06-19:06(GMT) in “in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs” by: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06-18:54(GMT)

No. 10 is similar to No. 25, so I am posting them together:

-Make the whole drawing a block with 0,0,0 as the base; then MINSERT it at 0,0,0.

Once MINSERTED, the Block in now Unexplodable, and thus, hard to edit.

The Secret is, if you type “Block,” the Block Display will come up.

You can choose the block that is unexplodable and check the box that says “Allow Exploding.”

From Me & from AutoCAD Message Board: C O Jones: Jul/20/06-19:06(GMT) in “in “Fun Trick to Play on the New CAD Techs” by: Josh Nieman: Jul/20/06-18:54(GMT)

[Joe-Bouza]

Taping a Triangle and T-square to their monitor.

More of a message then a prank

[Mistress0fTheDorkness]

~snort~

I'm sometime tempted to replace a users computer with a couple of rocks to bang together.

[The_Angry_Elf]

Oh ...this thread has just reminded me of the good ole days of working on Unix.

OMG the stunts we were able to pull on that operating system. Made working 2nd shift a pleasure.

From basic things like sending a sound file at full volume to a co-worker that you noticed was drifting off to sleep to turning the display 180 degrees and watching your co-worker work for a few seconds until he realized it or doing some odd ball thing to a co-worker right as the boss is standing near him and see him try to explain that he wasn't doing it....LOL

[doni49]

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@Mistress0fTheDorkness wrote:
~snort~

I'm sometime tempted to replace a users computer with a couple of rocks to bang together.

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I've known a few people that would fit that description.

I just thought of another little prank -- put the following in their acaddoc.lsp file (so that it loads everytime they open a dwg file):

(setvar "snapunit" (list 50000 50000))

(setvar "snapmode" 1)

(princ)

Whenever they start acad, it will change the snap units to 50000 and turn on SNAP -- the princ will disguise the fact that you've done anything.