AutoCAD Tips Newsletter-How to cut out a groove to fit a tongue, align a rectangle with a line on the fly, and much more

Dear Subscriber, Please forward this newsletter to colleagues who want to learn more about AutoCAD. If you received this newsletter from a colleague, sign up for your own copy at EllenFinkelstein.com. In this issue: How to cut out a groove to fit a tongue in a 3D model with the INTERFERE command Get rid of the annoying tooltip when you hover over an object How to create a quick polar array with the ROTATE command's Copy option Align a rectangle with a line on the fly Excellent resource: CAD portal and forum If you like these tips, please forward this e-mail to your colleagues Wow, I didn't realize how long it has been since I've sent you a newsletter! So a lot of tips have piled up. 1, How to cut out a groove to fit a tongue in a 3D model with the INTERFERE command Bill Walker sent me this tip. Sometimes you need to cut out part of one 3D object to fit another object. For example, in tongue & grove construction, you need to cut out the groove to fit the tongue. You can make this process easy with an option of the INTERFERE command. Follow these steps.... 2. Get rid of the annoying tooltip when you hover over an object A reader of my book, AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT Bible (the 2010 version) wrote me the following: "Whenever the mouse crosshairs land on [hover over] a line in a drawing, a small 'window' appears, listing Line. Color. By layer Layer. Plan Linetype. Continuous This is extremely annoying ... This was never the case with previous versions of AutoCAD, and in my opinion, is not an 'upgrade' but a retrograde move." As you can see, he is quite annoyed. Frankly... Find out how to get rid of the "rollover tooltip.". 3. How to create a quick polar array with the ROTATE command's Copy option Instead of creating a polar array, in some situations, you can use the ROTATE command's Copy option. It works best when you want to end up with 2 or 3 objects, because you need to repeat the ROTATE command for each copy. For example, let's say that I want to... Get the steps! 4. Align a rectangle with a line on the fly You can align a rectangle with a line or other existing object on the fly, avoiding the need for a separate rotation. Watch the video or read the steps. 5. Excellent resource: CAD portal and forum I want to introduce you to a great resource: CADstudio and CADforum. CADstudio is a free multi-language CAD portal (the link is to the English section) supporting CAD and GIS users, especially users of Autodesk products. CADforum is a free forum where you can ask questions and get answers. You'll find a discussion forum with 90.000 postings and about 190.000 registered users. Find out more! 6. If you like these tips, please forward this e-mail to your colleagues Do you find these tips helpful? If you're still a subscriber, I assume you do. Please forward this e-mail to your colleagues so they can get the same great AutoCAD tips and techniques! Since this e-mail is free, consider that the price is forwarding it to at least 1 other person in the next month. Thanks in advance! Learn all about blocks in this thorough 69-page e-book, including the basics, dynamic blocks, attributes, annotative blocks, extracting data, and more! Includes drawings for numerous exercises. Only $10! Click here to purchase. (Full disclosure: I get 30%.) More You can find the latest tips in my AutoCAD Tips Blog .You can receive this newsletter via RSS news feed (instead of via e-mail) if you want. At the AutoCAD Tips Blog, look for the RSS button on the right. (The text says "Posts.") For more tips, go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com/AutoCAD_tips.html. For my AutoCAD books and other items, go to my e-store. You can sponsor this newsletter, or place an ad in it. Reach over 7,000 committed AutoCAD users. Contact me. If you want to reprint or reuse any of the content in my newsletters or on my site for your own newsletter, contact me. Happy designing and drawing, Ellen Finkelstein EllenFinkelstein.com Check out my Amazon page! Follow me on Twitter! (www.twitter.com/EFinkelstein) Use the links below to manage your subscription: Change your e-mail address; this opens a new e-mail message. Please give me both your old and new e-mail addresses. To subscribe, go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com/acad_submit.html.    ©2011 Ellen Finkelstein, Inc. | 2010 Coral Lane, Fairfield, IA 52556

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