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Re: 10 tips for 10 years
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2013, 02:08:28 PM »
Can be nice.  Until somebody takes that license home and uses it to moonlight for a competitor who is submitting a competing bid for the same project we are working on.  Some people have NO sense of conflict of interest.

Personally, I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I did that, but I know it does happen... somewhere.

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Re: 10 tips for 10 years
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2013, 03:45:40 PM »
Quote from: ender.prime
10. QSELECT : select drawing objects by using query-like filtering such as Layer = 0, etc. Learn it. Love it.

10a: FILTER. Use it with QSelect. They each can do things the other can't.


10b:http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=35028.msg402471#msg402471

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Re: 10 tips for 10 years
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2013, 09:37:57 AM »
Just a few off my quicknote clipboard:


In addition to QSELECT and FILTER, use the FIND command to edit repetitive text like circuit references, when someone decides to change a distribution board reference in a large office floor plan...
FIND also works on attributes definitions iirc.

Also,

GRIP EDITING - copy, rotate, scale, move, mirror etc etc add and remove vertices by cycling CTRL when a grip is hot.

ATTSYNC - update attributes in existing blocks.

IMAGEFRAME - sysvar - plot/no plot boarder around inserted images.

CTRL+SHIFT+U - with highlighted text forces upper or lower caste.
CTRL+SHIFT+L

TAB - to cycle through active osnaps when drawing.

PKFSTGROUP - group manager, soooo useful. Use CTRL+H to toggle group selection

In single line text use
%%d - degrees symbol
%%u - underline text (end text with %%u to stop underline)
%%c - diameter symbol
%%p - plus/minus symbol

editing dimension text via properties dialog text override (or double click and use text editor):
\X will drop the remaining text below the dimension line.
\P will create a paragraph line break. You can use more than one \P as needed
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