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| You can save and share a tool palette or tool palette group by exporting it or importing it as a file. You can save and share a tool palette by exporting it or importing it as a tool palette file. Tool palette files have an .xtp file extension. Similarly, you can save and share a tool palette group by exporting it or importing it as a palette group file. Tool palette files have an .xpg file extension. In some cases, when you export a customized tool palette, an image folder with the same name as the exported tool palette is automatically created in the same location as the XTP file. This image folder contains the icon images used on the exported tool palette. The folder is created when you export a tool palette that contains any of the following items: • User-created content tools • Command tools that contain user-specified (custom) tool palette icons (images) When you import a customized tool palette, this image folder must be in the same location as the imported XTP file in order for the icons to appear on the tool palette. Tool palettes can be used only in the version of LD Assistant Ac in which they were created. For example, you cannot use a tool palette that was created in LD Assistant Ac 2010 in LD Assistant Ac 2008. The default path for tool palette files is set on the Files tab of the Options dialog box under Tool Palettes File Locations. Tool palette groups are saved in profiles. Note: If a tool palette file is set with a read-only attribute, a lock icon is displayed in a lower corner of the tool palette. This indicates that you cannot modify the tool palette beyond changing its display settings and rearranging the icons. |
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| • Repair a Damaged DWG Drawing File | ||||||||||||||||||||
| If a drawing file is damaged, you can recover some or all of the data by using commands to find and correct errors. Repair and Recovery When an error occurs, diagnostic information is recorded in the acad.err file, which you can use to report a problem. A drawing file is marked as damaged if corrupted data is detected, or if you request that the drawing be saved after a program failure. If the damage is minor, sometimes you can repair the drawing simply by opening it. Otherwise, you can use the following: Located under the menu File then the Drawing Utilities fly-out: • Recover... Performs an audit on, and attempts to open, any drawing file. • Recover drawing and xrefs... Similar to recover, it additionally operates on all nested xrefs. The results are displayed in the Drawing Recovery Log window. • Audit... Finds and corrects errors in the currently open drawing file. Example: Auditing Files Auditing a file generates a description of problems with a drawing file and recommendations for correcting them. As you start the audit, you specify whether you want the program to try to fix the problems it encounters. The report is similar to the following example: Auditing Header DXF NAME Current Value Validation Default PDMODE 990 - 2040 UCSFOLLOW 811 or 0 Error found in auditing header variables 4 Blocks audited Pass 1 4 objects audited Pass 2 4 objects audited Total errors found 2 fixed 2 If you chose not to correct the errors, the last statement changes to Total errors found 2 fixed 0. The output from a recovery audit is written to an audit log (ADT) file if the AUDITCTL system variable is set to 1 (On). Recovery does not necessarily preserve the high-level consistency of the drawing file. The program extracts as much material as it can from the damaged file. |
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| • LD Assistant is 100% AutoCAD DWG • | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| • How to Convert AutoCAD Drawing Units from One to Another : Scale all objects, insert drawing as block or reference, set source drawing unit, create new drawing. - We all are working with different units in AutoCAD. If you use imperial, you use feet and inch. I use metric, with mm as primary unit. Even if we are using metric, sometimes people use meter as their primary units. Sometimes we receive AutoCAD drawings that are using drawing units we are not comfortable with. When you do, you will want to convert the drawing units to another. Edwin Prakoso, CAD Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Autodesk QTO Backout Tool: A Few Cool Things About It - Jason Dodds, dODDS and Ends | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Quick and Dirty Tip: Resolving AutoCAD XREF Path - Receiving AutoCAD files with XREF can give us headache, Edwin Prakoso, CAD Notes |
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| • AutoCAD & System Performance: So what’s running on your machine? Firstly, you need to know what you have running on your machine. Their are a number of useful tools to identify what is running and more importantly what is taking up useful system resources on your machine. John Benstead, CADit |
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| • Using AutoCAD MIRROR Command: Axis of symmetry, functioning of command. The MIRROR command, which has been developed to duplicate mirror images of the selected objects, is one of AutoCAD’s most used commands. The command allows you to jump several steps. Erhan Toker, Daily AutoCAD | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • The Best, the Rest, the Rare: 100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know. June 28, 2010 - We all want to use AutoCAD better, more productive, and easily solve problem when we have one. So I compile 100 AutoCAD tips in this article, and I hope can help you. Many of the tips were written by other great CAD bloggers, you may want to follow their blog/site as well. So this is it: the best AutoCAD tips, the rest that many of us miss, and some of them are very rare. If you happen about my age, you might know I pick the name from. Edwin Prakoso, CAD Notes |
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| • AMD, NVIDIA Update OpenGL 4.1 Drivers: AMD and nVidia have released some fresh drivers which has significantly raise the OpenGL support.
On nVidia side, the OpenGL 4.1 implementation has reach the stable drivers as it fixes a lot of issues and seems to work pretty well. |
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| • AutoCAD 2011: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - dynamic polyline editing, persistent default scale list. Each new release of AutoCAD includes big-ticket items that everyone talks about so let me tell you about a few of my favorite things. Lynn Allen, Cadalyst |
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| • Obtain Vector Information from PDFs Using Free Tools: Sometimes you will have access to a PDF file, but not to the original DWG. Is there any way you can get the base vector data, such as lines and arcs, out of the PDF and back into a DWG? Yes, there is - and it's free. Luke Johnson What Revit Wants |
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| • Publish Selected Layouts in a Drawing : Batch Plot command, remove everything from sheet list except what's needed, unchecking Automatically load. button. When you start the Batch Plot command (formerly and still sometimes known as Publish), it will probably populate the sheet list with every layout from every open drawing. Kate Morrical, LT Unlimited | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Creating Solid Surfaces with PLANESURF Command: REGION command controlled by PLANESURF since AutoCAD 2007, rectangular solid surface. We may have to create 2D surfaces while working on solid models. For example, we may require to create a surface for a swimming pool or anything else that we may want to include in our renders. What we used to do using the REGION command is now controlled with the PLANESURF command since AutoCAD 2007. Orhan Toker, Daily AutoCAD | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • A Hip Dimensioning Tip - If you could remove one step from each dimension you placed on your drawing, wouldn't that be fantastic? Join Lynn Allen as she shows you a super-secret tip that very few people (even AutoCAD veterans) seem to know about., Lynn Allen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • AutoCAD Zoom Command Oddities: Setting view in viewport, DSVIEWER, zooming out to maximum area possible without causing a regen. What could be more simple than the Zoom command, right? Many people I see primarily use the center mouse wheel for zooming and rarely use other zoom options. However, there may be times when you want to zoom to a specific area... RK McSwain | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Preventing AutoCAD Ribbon Panels from Collapsing: Aaccessing customer user interface, tearing panels from ribbon. Do you use AutoCAD ribbon? One annoying thing about ribbon for me is when I have to work with small screen resolution. I do set it quite high on my computer and feel comfortable with it. However, when I have to do presentations... Edwin Prakoso | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • AutoCAD for Mac: Check it Out the AutoCAD for Mac takes full advantage of MAC OS X operating system, commands in AutoCAD for Mac absent in AutoCAD for Windows. You can try AutoCAD for Mac for 30 days free of charge - and I highly recommend you loyal Mac users do exactly that. This is not standard AutoCAD ported over to a Mac - this is the real deal. AutoCAD 2011 for Mac takes full advantage of the MAC OS X operating system... Lynn Allen's Blog |
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| • Updated Project Neon Now Available: Project Neon is our rendering service where you can upload your DWG files and get back a rendering from our servers in the cloud. You can learn more about Project Neon at Autodesk Labs |
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| • CAD: So A is for Apple After All. Preview of AutoCAD on Mac. What we never thought we would see is a native version of AutoCAD for the Mac.
Naturally, we were wrong. AutoCAD is back in the Mac in a big way. Kung Fu Drafter |
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| • Simplify AutoCAD Layer Manager List with Layer Filter - Have you worked with standard layer naming convention? If you have, you probably get irritated to have so many layers in your AutoCAD drawings. Edwin Prakoso |
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| • Kubotek NVIDIA Graphics Card Shootout, Pt 1 - results of testing NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT and Quadro FX 1800 counters conventional price/performance relationship, John McCullough, Kubotek Blog | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Kubotek NVIDIA Graphics Card Shootout, Pt 2 - results of testing NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT and Quadro FX 1800 counters conventional price/performance relationship, John McCullough, Kubotek Blog | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HOW TO... | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Step by Step How to Create a Mesh Solid Jar - by Ellen Finkelstein CAD Digest | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Step by Step How to Create a Page Setup for Plotting - by Ellen Finkelstein CAD Digest |
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| • Layer States and Viewports - changing layer state using layer states pulldown or layer states manager in AutoCAD, Brian Hailey | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Draw with Tiled Viewports - creating, using tiled viewports, saving, restoring viewport configurations in AutoCAD, Ellen Finkelstein | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Creating Complex Viewports Inside Layouts - making use of MVIEW, POLYLINE, LAYER commands in AutoCAD, more, Erhan Toker | ||||||||||||||||||||
| • Display a Named View in a Viewport - saving and displaying views in AutoCAD, Ellen Finkelstein | ||||||||||||||||||||
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