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Best tips and tricks for ACAD 2022

mattdVF27J — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:28:26 GMT

I've been on here for a year or so now, coming back to ACAD after 15 years away. Found lots of helpful tips on here, thanks to all who helped. A few that really got me going I'll list here. If you have any great tips that could apply to general drafting techniques, tips, trick,s or favorite time savers feel free to post here! I'll put a few down.

1. "Preview" command-enables you to get a preview of layout tab prior to publish.

2."CHSPACE" helpful when exploding a pdf with text that you may reuse. You can move all annotations over to paper space in one swoop.

3. "stripmtxt"- this is a lisp that I found helpful on here. Not sure why but some of our templates have txt that is justified to one setting but cannot be changed in the properties dialogue. Im nut sure why this is, but with this list you can strip justification out, allowing you to the be capable of setting it thru properties menu again.

4. "MSTRETCH" allows you to extend several lines or polylines at once.

Feel free to add to this list and try and provide a description for how these work, might have a newbie like me looking for some direction!

Re: Best tips and tricks for ACAD 2022

Gabriel_Watson — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:26:07 GMT

Just a few short ones from my personal troubleshooting notes:

- AutoCAD drawing visual errors in 3D: try "REGEN3" command
- AutoCAD status (bottom) bar keeps moving and popping: STATUSBARAUTOWRAP = OFF
- Remove curved sections from AutoCAD polylines: select the Polylines/Curves and type PE > Decurve
- Fix disconnected edges/corners from a 2D profile: "PEDIT > M (multiple) > JOIN > JOINTYPE > BOTH > 1.0 (fuzz distance)". Afterward, trim any flying edges across the profile.
- AutoCAD save dialog window does not appear: Set FILEDIA to 1 by typing FILEDIA in the command line.
- AutoCAD ribbon is missing/blank: type CUILOAD in command, unload and load back ACAD.CUIX
- CutePDF Writer does not print AutoCAD DWG to PDF: make sure file is not open from e-mail attachment, but from a location in local or network drive.
- Export 3D DWG to STP/STEP format in AutoCAD: open AutoCAD MECHANICAL, and type on the command bar "STEPOUT"
- AutoCAD crashing when display driver stops responding (possibly with overly-dense hatches): set a System Environment Variable in Windows as HPMAXLINES with value of 100 (minimum).
- AutoCAD geometry imported into Inventor appears skewed/modified: Set "MEASUREMENT" to "1" in the ACAD file, then import again.
- AutoCAD Layer Properties window shows up blank or fogged (clicking each layer will make the cells show up): LAYERDLGMODE = 0
- AutoCAD layer objects are not selectable (cannot be selected): thaw (unfreeze) the "0" layer and try again. The other, half-layer, might be tied somehow to it.
- AUTOCAD: Block cannot be exploded. Open properties. Edit Block. Scroll down properties to "Allow exploding". Switch to Yes, and save the block.

Re: Best tips and tricks for ACAD 2022

pendean — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:15:09 GMT

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Re: Best tips and tricks for ACAD 2022

paullimapa — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:30:57 GMT

Let’s not forget the infamous support for DirectX 12 mode introduced with this version which causes all kinds of weird display issues sending the user to quickly switch back to DirectX 11

https://www.cadforum.cz/en/how-to-disable-directx-12-in-autocad-2022-tip12951