Join Jeff Bartels for an in-depth discussion in this video Identifying the owner of a drawing, part of AutoCAD Tips, Tricks, & Industry Secrets.
In a production environment, a large CAD project can involve many drawings,…each being worked on by the members of a project team.…With multiple people getting in and sometimes not getting out of the drawings,…you may have trouble accessing some of the files.…In this lesson we'll learn how to identify which team member has possession of a drawing.…On my screen I've a drawing that represents a proposed parking lot in my…overall CAD project.…Let's say that several of the other project drawings I have tried to open have…been coming up in a read-only state.…This usually means that someone else is currently working on those files.…
If I'd like to identify the owner of a specific drawing, I'll use the command whohas.…This command works just like the Open command, except its job is to tell me who…has possession of a file.…I'm going to navigate into the Exercise Files folder, I'll jump into Chapter 8,…and I'm going to select the current drawing.…Now this a little anti-climactic, because AutoCAD is reminding me that I'm in this file.…
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1/31/2011- Creating macro enabled tools
- Using Auto Complete
- Disabling tool mode settings on the fly
- Moving and copying entities using Windows shortcuts
- Using the Calculator palette
- Formatting text
- Creating parent/child dimension styles
- Making dimensions easier to read
- Making global edits to attribute data and layer names
- Exchanging one block symbol for another
- Inserting content using drag and drop
- Navigating layer list using the keyboard
- Importing layouts from template files
- Consolidating backup files
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome53s
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1. Interface
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Creating macro-enabled tools10m 29s
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Restoring hidden messages3m 53s
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2. Drawing Tools
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Creating true offsets3m 44s
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Using the Calculator palette10m 25s
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3. Text
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Underlining single-line text1m 21s
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4. Dimensions
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5. Blocks and References
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6. Layers
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Removing stubborn layers2m 1s
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7. Layouts
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8. Miscellaneous Tools
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Conclusion
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Goodbye31s
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