Topic: Most underated / underused commands / variables ...

[Dent Cermak]

RANDY'S BACK!! RANDY'S BACK!!    

[CADaver]

ummmm... thanks.... I think?

[whdjr]

RANDY'S BACK!! RANDY'S BACK!!    

When I saw this post my first thought was of Randy's back. :yikes:


Sorry for the visual guys

[PDJ]

Well... I guess I'll stop lurking, and start posting...

I love the WIPEOUT command. I don't know of too many people that have ever even heard of it, let alone use it. It is great to use in your blocks so that information under the block is "wiped out", not deleted or broken to eliminate overlap.

Anyone else use the wipeout command?



Brian

Dude... please tell me you are not still using R12 DOS ....that avatar brings back fond memories...

Sorry if this confuses everyone by going back so far but, too bad.  Keith, the president of our local users group here does that to every new version of AutoCad.  The first thing he modifies is the menu so he can have the old R12 DOS like screen and have the side bar menu.  It confuses the heck out of a lot of people when he uses it on the overhead projector thingy but, then he gets to brag about his programming skillz..  Oh, he also uses blipmodes all the time..

So there's my part for this post..

The command:  Blipmode
The problem:  It makes me want to choke the poo out of the person until they regen the dang drawing.

Two other unused commands would be remote text in the express tools and also quickselect.  Quickselect make take some further eyeballin by me..  Looks a lot like the old ssx command that I still use.  

Aight, carry on, nothing to see here..

[Graldensblud]

God, i'd forgotten blipmode. Thats always a great one for winding people up with!

[dubb]

DRAGMODE

[dubb]

Code: [Select]

OOPS

[Graldensblud]

Can someone enlighten me as to how "OOPS" is better than "undo"? I never did quite see the point in that command, but thats not to say there isn't one  

[MikePerry]

Can someone enlighten me as to how "OOPS" is better than "undo"? I never did quite see the point in that command, but thats not to say there isn't one  

Hi

Below snippet is taken directly from the AutoCAD Online Help File [F1] -

<snip>
You can restore accidentally erased objects using UNDO. The OOPS command restores all objects deleted by the most recent use of ERASE, BLOCK, or WBLOCK.
</snip>

Have a good one, Mike

[jonesy]

I like OOPS.

When I used to teach CAD, the students used to think I was pulling their leg about it.

Its very useful when you have erased something about 5 minutes before, and instead of using undo to back-track, and having to redraw things, simply oops and the drawing remains in tact.

[Gliderider]

Oops works well when you want to hatch an area that has entities within that would prevent the desired hatch. Erase them, hatch, then oops.

[whdjr]

DING!!!DING!!!DING!!!

Ok Folks!  I think we have a winner.

It appears that the 'oops' command is never used in my office and it looks like the greatest thing since sliced bread.


Thanks for the ENLIGHTENMENT.

[Graldensblud]

I see, so its a very selective undo... I sure as hell wish they'd explained that properly in CAD class, i thought it was like undo-for-dummies!

Maybe not best thing since sliced bread, but perhaps a contender for best thing since reintroduction of unsliced bread...  

[PDJ]

What was the best thing before sliced bread??

Never have been an oops user here.. Don't even have a set of quick keys for it..

[dubb]

HAHA..I dont even use oops i used oops in highschool...autocad release 12 LT