SubscribeArchive for November, 2007
MOVE TEXT / NO LEADER override doesn’t work w/annotative dimensions
In properties for the an annotative dimension entity, change the “text movement” property to “move text, no leader,” then save, close and reopen. After reopening, grip edit the text portion of the dimension, and notice that the “text movement” property changes back to “move text, add leader.”
My testing has confirmed this bug in C3D, LDT [...]
Paste to Original Coordinates doesn’t paste entities
When copying with COPYBASE and attempting to paste using PASTEORIG, the copied entites do not appear.
This only appears to occur when using COPYBASE with PASTEORIG. Keep in mind that if you will be executing PASTORIG, then using COPYBASE to specify the entities will present a useless prompt for base point.
While its true that this can [...]
UNDO stops working (2004 specific)
In Land Desktop 2004, there is a well documented problem where undo just stops working when it encounters an INTELLIZOOM operation and reports that there is “nothing to undo.” I’ve researched this issue thoroughly and, despite the fact that many people have experienced it, it appears that there was never an official word from Autodesk [...]
Visual Lisp IDE’s help file is unsearchable in 2008
Starting in 2008, the search function in VLIDE’s help doesn’t work.
Workarounds: None known. What else can be said about this? It should work, but it doesnt.
First Appeared: AutoCAD 2008
Status as of 2008 SP1: Still reproducible.
Status as of 2009: (unknown)
Numerous customizations and Express Tools do not work with Annotative Entities
AutoCAD 2008’s new Annotative property for BLOCKS, TEXT, HATCHes, and DIMENSIONs does not work with AutoLISP’s (ENTMOD) function. Since (ENTMOD) is unaware of the Annotative property, applying that function to any entity list will in effect kill the Annotative properties and instances of that entity.
Workarounds: Rewrite all of your code and Autodesk’s Express Tools code? [...]
3DCONFIG reports, “There are no hardware drivers available”
After adding a custom folder to AutoCADs “device driver search path” (ACADDRV), 3DCONFIG may report that there are no hardware drivers available. This only occurs when the custom directory is listed before the out of the box location for drivers.
Workarounds: Add your custom DRV folder after the “out of the box” value in Options -> [...]
Complex linetypes which contain shapes to not display properly
In Land Desktop 2008, there appears to be an issue with loading shape files in some drawing files. When opening files which contain complex linetypes, the accompanying shape files are not loaded. Consequently, complex linetypes appear to be dashed.
Workarounds: Manually load the linetypes after opening the drawing. This can be automated by adding the appropriate [...]
Tables which include delta angle cause fatal errors
Certain drawings* previously created in LDT2006, will crash with a fatal error when you try to create a curve table that includes a column with the DELTA ANGLE. If you remove this column, the table works
* I say certain drawings, because we just started working in LDT2008 – we have not determined if this is [...]
TEXT entities with FIELDS do not display correctly
A TEXT entity (not MTEXT), not at 0.0 rotation, that contains text and a FIELD, whose properties include either a width factor that does not equal 1.0 -or- a obliquing angle that does not equal 0.0 – displays incorrectly.
Thanks to RK McSwain for submitting this report.
Workarounds: Use MTEXT
First Appeared: AutoCAD 2008
Status as of 2008 SP1: [...]
QUICKSAVE aborts with, “yourfile.DWG has a command in progress.”
Frequently after doing extensive 3DORBITing, you lose the ability to quicksave (CTRL-S, save icon, qs). The command line reports: “yourfile.DWG has a command in progress.”
Workarounds: Type SAVE at the command line to save, then close and reopen the drawing.
First Appeared: AutoCAD 200?
Status as of 2008:Still occurs.
Status as of 2009: (unknown)
Slow Undo
Under certain circumstances, AutoCAD’s undo command becomes very sluggish. This is frequently caused by a dead end windows shortcut somewhere in the support path or in the locations specified in the ACADDRV, PrinterStyleSheetDir, PrinterDescDir, PrinterConfigDir environment variables or any other location that AutoCAD is configured to search for files.
Workarounds: The most common dead end shortcut [...]