[Autocad 2008 Keygen Only Xforce 3 Rar
Luther Lazaro
I need to be able to view various groups of layers, for example, all electrical layers only, and then possibly switch to my plumbing layers only. I though that by creating layer group filters this would happen when I selected a group, ie plumbing group would display just the plumbing layers. Is there another simple way to do this, or do I have to set up layer states and switch that way?
I was interested by your solution, although I haven't yet tried it, I can imagine there would be problems. For example, how would I know if there were any clashes, until I they are xref'd in? Also, I have received drawings with dozens of layers, some that would be of interest to me, others, furniture etc, that would not. These are not xrefs, so I'm a little confused.
hi i seem to be having an issue with polylines and a few other things like rectangle, they will only draw in up and down movements and not draw to the left or right, last night it was working fine! anyone have this before and fixed it??
Just so you know, there is another kind of polyline specific to unfettered 3 dimensional use, which is 3Dpolyline. Enter 3P at your commandline to use it. It is not as configurable as a regular polyline, but it does work fine in a 3D perspective or environment for somewhat rudimentary drawing.
If you select an orthogonal view from the VIEWS toolbar or the VIEW palette on the ribbon it will change your UCS. Which, if you are interested in being able to use polylines while drawing is a good thing. Just remember to reset to WCS or to TOP VIEW when you are through.
I did a special shape with arcs and lines, I then join them to make one polyline which worked and now I'm trying to extrude it so that I can have a 3d solid of that shape but it only extrude the edges, the solid is empty inside. I made sure that every arc and line were connected from endpoint to endpoint and I checked again to make sure there were so mistake so I don't understand why it's not working. If someone could help me please, I've been trying to figure it out for a few days now...
Welcome to AutoCAD Forum! I understand you are trying to extrude your model. There are a few suggestions in this other forum post which may help: -forum/polyline-extruded-is-quot-empty-quot/td-p/7583808
THANK YOU SO MUCH IT WORKED OMG. Once I flatten my drawing on Top view it removed the part that wasn't flatten so I redid it, I join and I extruded and it worked! You saved me a lot of times. Really appreciate.
I am writing to inquire if there is any way that a read-only file can be edited in AutoCad. I am using AutoCad 2004 on a drawing that was created in 2002, probably using the 2002 version. If you can help me with this, it'll be great. Thanks in advance.
I don't know anything about MAC, but surely there's a way to change the Read-only attribute for the file,.... or else save the drawing with a different file name (SAVEAS) and then make your edits on the new drawing file...
well I've got two days to my deadline and i have to have major tiny detailes on my building section (architecture is the biggest mistake of my life) like staircase joints etc, but to fasten the process and all nighters.....I've got a CD which has simliar detailed drawings but i need to edit them and relate it to my building.
Ok, lets be sure you understood my suggestion. Open a new blank drawing. Use the "insert" command. That should bring up the dialog box below (or at least it's Mac equivalent). Find the file you want to insert by using the browse button, set the other stuff as needed, and then click the box next to "explode" in the lower left corner. Hit ok, and that should bring any drawing you have into the new one and allow you to edit it.
If that don't work, you may have to borrow a friend's PC to finish your assignment. I have 3 or 4 different sets of standard details and parts catalogs from curtainwall manufacturers, literally thousands of drawings, and they are all read only. I insert them into drawings every day and go right on. Being set to read only keeps me from accidentally screwing one of them up when I am scrolling through them looking for just the right one to base a new extrusion or assembly on. I'm bad to get caught up in it and forget to saveas, you see.
if they have been copied from a CD (or accessed from a CD) the will be set as read only by the operating system (CD is considered RO). Check with windows explorer that the file isn't showing a read only and reset it if it is.
I'd like to stretch/shorten an egg shape along the X axis only. The only work around I've found is to isolate the desired geometry and import it in to a new drawing, manually figuring the required X axis scale addition/reduction then completing the import. This in not an ellipse but an organic shape simplified to just a few entities. Stretch just moves the object over.
I've searched the menu options in Bricscad relating to scale command, as well as searching the forums on the Bricscad site without finding an answer so thought I'd ask here. I'm using Classic Version 19.
See attachment to see what i mean. Notice how the icon next to the "entire drawing" dropdown menu is greyed out. It shouldn't be greyed out, and I used to be able to select a load of lines, blocks etc., then use quickselect to only select, among the selection, those that were red, or of a certain layer, or whatever.
Now I can't do that. I'm running AutoCAD 2014 on Windows 7, with one lisp routine active (StripMText, which I've disabled and tried a new drawing, but the problem is still present so hence isn't caused by the lisp routine).
Now when I try selecting some things then running QUICKSELECT, it will only select a specified selection in the ENTIRE DRAWING (useless), and also keep the original selection selected (less than useless).
Unticking that immediately fixed it. I thought appending to current selection would allow you to make additional window selections after the first selection, which is why I ticked it (and forgot about it), but apparently not.
Would be nice for the greyed out button, or command line, to say something like "untick "append to surrent selection set" in this window to get this thing back" or something, maybe something for a future version.
is there a diesel expression or something along those lines that would chose only the first 5 characters in the file name? (our job numbers are 5 #'s long and are the beginning portion of the filename).
However, I have up until recently been able to edit xref drawing files in this way before while using AutoCAD 2017 which would confirm that this is more likely to be a setting issue rather than an error.
We are finding that this is an intermittent problem that appears to on occasion resolve itself. However, for the majority of the time the problem is persistent and can only be resolved by closing all open drawings and opening the xref file independently to edit it.
Since upgrading to 2017 we have experienced several problems, which include drawing information not being able to be read in previous versions of AutoCAD (2016 & 2015) even though these features are in both versions. Irregular shaped viewport windows that are created with 2017 need to be deleted and reset in previous versions to allow the drawing information from model space to be read in 2016 or 2015 versions of AutoCAD.
I recently switched from AutoCAD 2016 to AutoCAD LT 2017 and I'm now unable to open xrefs for editing while the working drawing is open. This never happened in AutoCAD 2016. Has anyone found a setting for this? Thank you!
You may have resolved this issue, but I just found the setting. Under Options - Open and Save - External References - set to "enable with copy" and check 'retain changes to Xref layers'. I had to close the software and open again for it to work.
I cannot seem to draw in 2d on elevation 0.00 (view TOP). My lines go in 3d between different z levels. I have flattened my drawing on another computer with the full version but the minute I start drawing again and then go to a side view and zoom in, all my lines are at different levels. I have spent hours selecting them manually and setting their start and end points, their insertion points or their elevations at z=0.00 but they are all still at different levels although all reading z=0.00. It makes no sense. The original plan was a flattened plan from the topographer but this plan had lines at elevation 320.5059. But when I flatten this drawing to elevation 0.00 I still end up drawing at some odd level of Z axis that I cannot control at all. I have tried various things. My isodraft is set to orthographic, my view is top. My ucsicon is on. I have tried to displace my drawings to 1e99 and then back to -1e99. Then my drawing disappears and I cannot get to UCS world view again. I have read other peoples similar problems and solutions but the solutions do not seem to work with me. Help!
Yeah, there is no osnapz in LT, we can't see the culprit from just screenshots, you possibly still have some rogue 3D elements in you drawing, points maybe! LT won't use different Z values unless it is 'snapping' to existing geometry that has different Z values, you could check you 'elevation' variable and make sure it isn't set to something other than zero, your lines do look to be all at the same height, but other than that if your UCS is set to the same plane as your other geometry then LT is finding geometry at different heights to snap to. Post your dwg so someone could find the culprits.
Okay, but how do I attach the drawing it just allows me to attach a link? I exploded all my blocks in the full version that a friend had and rebuilt the blocks and still the lines are all at different levels although reading 0.00 in properties. I have checked elevation command and all set to 0.00
Something strange is going on here, LT is seeing a number of polylines not at Z=0 and even manually changing them to have an elevation of zero, they still retain a Z value when you check them using the ID command, what is also rather odd is they are reported as being polylines but they are actually at an angle to the ucs plane and should really be described by LT as 3D polylines (a couple are) though they are coplanar. Without knowing the drawing history, which program created it and if different programs have been used on this drawing, it's impossible to track down the problem, but it is safe to say the program or commands used to flatten this drawing didn't work.
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