Tom,
It's been in my mind for a while to post all the tips and tricks I've seen on
this newsgroup during the past few years that I've been gathering in a folder.
These aren't necessarily the "normal" operations. Rather, they're commands
hidden somewhere in the program waiting to burst forth with abandon when someone
points us. For instance, did you know there's an aerial view command? Hakon Alm
come up with that one last year.
Paul has a page on his site where he lists what he considers to be the most
useful tricks. You can check that out at http://www.resolv.com.au/. Since he's
redone the site (IN JAVA - - WHY???) your going to have to click on the
AutoSketch tab and then "Tips and Tricks" button on the left.
In addition, Rod Hulbert, John Ehman, John Nolte, GB, Chris Leubke, Ross George,
Ric Norris, many others, have contributed interesting workarounds and subtle
undocumented tricks that can be VERY useful. Along with answering questions of
the normal type - but sometimes with surprising twists.
There are more "usual suspects", and I urge you to hang around and be one. The
more the merrier, so to speak, to coin a phrase, such as it is, as it were.
Just so's ya know, two things that AS still doesn't have that lots of folks want
to see: Macros, and aligning text to a curve. ADSK maintains a wish list at
http://www.augi.com/wishlist/asketch00.htm and you should give a look. So far we
haven't seen too many wishes make it into the new version, but we're told that
ADSK takes them seriously and you can actually vote there on your favorites.
Moot.
Onward and sideways.
H
mitch wrote:
>
> Hey here is a new idea, why don,t you reply with what you like about
> AutoSketch 7.0 It sound to me that this is it for a while so let's make the
> most of it shall we?I have been useing it since it was released and have not
> had that many problems.
> What I like the most about AutoSketch is the rubber stamp feature. When I am
> doing a complexed drawing with some repeatable features all I have to do is
> highlight the items that I want repeated and right click on the dot in the
> center of the selection and change the move about point to the location that
> suits me and boom there it is! I can click to my hearts content and if I think
> I'm going to use it again some time I just make it a symbol. Gotta love it!
> Tom Mitchell