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Kinda just a random question, but i use a lot of lisp routines for the most basic tasks and made another one (with AI) just last week.

It places an block in the center of 2 other blocks and deletes the 2 selected ones. This comes forth from a survey where lightposts have been measured on 2 sides, so the post is actually in the middle.

I could probably have found something like this online, but now i have made one that also has some custom options, like selecting all the surveyed points and only apply the 'place block in center' on survey points that are within 1 feet (can be changed) of each other and have a specific label.

Anyway, i like to make more tools more often, but as the problem at hand in that one instance was probably 5 minutes of work if i fixed it by hand, it took half an hour to create the lisp.
So pretty much i wasted 25+ minutes on that job. But will save myself 4,9 minutes on any future jobs.

So i wonder, what tools, even if it's not just a lisp, would you like to create but never find the time to do so?

Hi all, I'm responsible for trying to get my group set up to use SSM and I created a template and am finalizing and testing the tutorial for new users now. I set up page setups in the template file with all of our company's normal .ctb plot styles and when I checked the preview in page setup everything looked proper.

Now when I plot a plan with the same page setup the colors are coming in lighter and unreadable from how they are supposed to be. I have the plot transparency selected and set the vector quality to 600

Any ideas on what can be going on? I know if it was just me using it I could figure out some overrides to get things proper, but I need this tutorial to be foolproof for others who have never used SSM at all

Is there a ttf version of the font ARCHSTYLE?

I have survey point for toography data in AutoCAD Architecture, but the points only have X and Y coordinates and no Z values only text, so everything comes in on a flat plane. What’s the easiest way to assign or generate Z values for the points inside AutoCAD? I mainly use AutoCAD Architecture. There are around 700 points, so if I do it manually point by point, it’ll literally take the whole day

Sorry for the sensationalist title. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. It's only my first week at my new job, but I'm pretty anxious.

My program nudged funneled me more toward manufacturing, 3D modelling, and additive, but my AutoCAD skills are still okay. Still, I did my first bit of linework yesterday on the most complexly layered and reference-heavy drawings I have ever seen. I had never used geographic coordinates and external references before. Boss came back for informal revisions twice today. I got it done, but I felt incredibly slow and clumsy, and I'm scared I may have disappointed on my first impression.

I know the key is practice, practice, practice, but I was wondering if anyone had similar experiences or some good advice.

I am a High School teacher and I am looking for reccomendations on a textbook to use for teaching AutoCAD. Preferably one with step by step guides included and practice assignments/drawings for students to complete. Also, that starts at absolutely no experience needed. The end goal is to get students comfortable enough using AutoCAD that by the end of the semester they are able to create their own techical drawings and detailed floor plans.

I have about 3000 dwg files that I'd like to index into an excel file. Good news is that >90% use a standard title block with a lot of usefull information. So DATAEXTRACTION is a good tool, however linking the resulting rows back to the exact DWG file is a hard, is there a way to add the DWG filepath to the table output? I'm not looking to update the title block or the DWG files, just export the data.

Hello everyone,
What should i read? Which workshops to do etc?
In the end what you recommend me to buy to learn autocad fast. I need to start drawing and become very good at it!! I am gonna be a Civil engineer

Looking for clarification on why my multileader mtext box is giving me extremely long text box widths ( grips ). I have been adjusting my annotation / dimstyles, and think I've changed something but can't determine what it is.

As a quick solution, I've edited my current multileaders ( in dwg ) and have manually set their mtext width to zero ( need to do for each instance). This is what I would like for my default settings ( so I dont have to adjust going forward ).

I typically use a background mask for my mleaders, and this is causing overlap on other elements in my dwg.

What have I done to deserve this LOL! Thanks!