Comments on: AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal”

By: Marlene

Marlene — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:43:58 +0000

Hi, i dont know how i hide the little tool bar with the icons for ortho, show/hide lineweight, snap etc. If you can help me to fix you’ll help me a lot. Thank you

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:00:44 +0000

I’m a bigg fan of this blog – thanks for keeping it up!. Upon a reinstall, AutoCAD 2011 msut have optimized my Win7 OS for performance. Therefore, AERO is turned off, and it won’t let me turn it back on.So my Win7 machine looks like Win95! It’s awful! I’ve even updated my nVidia drivers, but I still can’t change these settings. Since I don’t do any 3D work, have no reason for this “optimized Win95″ look.

Can anyone help me switch this back?

By: SALLY

SALLY — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:49:41 +0000

Hi,
in autocad 2010, when i print to pdf it included the layout tab name in the title, now i have autocad 2011 it no longer does this. is there a way of enabling this?

By: Rui

Rui — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:21:09 +0000

Hi STeve!

Thanks a lot for the usefull post!! I have one doubt that i could not identify in the thread, probably my fault… When i want to extrude, i get the annoying previw of heights, which consumes a lot of memory if the polyline is really complicated… How do i turn that extrusion previw off? Is it around dynamic inputs? I was around there but couldnt do it! Thanks again!!

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:15:37 +0000

As I have no experience with XP 64, I can’t offer meaningful advice. I don’t know if changing the page file size will make any difference in your case, but there’s one way to find out.

By: ott

ott — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:23:04 +0000

with an 8 gb of ram and xp 64 bit with a intel (r) core 2.93ghz processer is there a preferred page file that hydracad / autocad prefers? This thing is really dragging and the computer is new! I use navisworks as well and there is no problems. Heeeeeeeelp!!

By: amy

amy — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:45:24 +0000

my tab bar sits below my mtext – how do i move it to the top of the mtext?

By: mohamad

mohamad — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:45:42 +0000

how to select object before hatch command similar to previous releases?

By: Geeta

Geeta — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:08:25 +0000

When i am drafting A selection command comming.I dont want that command.how to close that one.Am irritating that command in autocad 2011.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:36:22 +0000

Hooray ! Finally got Autocad Classic back after 3 years of not using the 2009 version becuase I couldn’t even figure out how to get it to look the same as before.

Autodesk – you are a joke.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:34:12 +0000

Just goes to show how much Autodesk is ripping off it’s customers.

They can’t leave something alone that worked so well for years. They have to change it to justify the ability to charge for it.

Sometimes – and in this case – new is not always better.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:37:40 +0000

I have the 2011 version of autocad and am still getting use to the program. You know when you draw a line then there should be small arrows and the size of the line at the top, well somehow it just disappeared or has become way too small to see it. Please help,I have an urgent assignment due and cannot continue working without the guidelines of dimensions sizes.

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:18:13 +0000

Start AutoCAD, type COMMANDLINE [Enter].

By: condrado

condrado — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:47:40 +0000

hai im working as an ojt from afirm,,then i switch something that close the command line..what should i do??please help me

By: Mueller

Mueller — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:57:16 +0000

Shawna, type in the command ‘layiso’ and it will give you a Settings option in the command window. Type ‘S’ to get to the option to change layers that are not isolated from ‘Lock and Fade’ to ‘Off’

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:37:03 +0000

I’ve never even seen AutoCAD Architecture, but in the other AutoCAD verticals I’ve seen the plain AutoCAD shortcut is the same as the normal vertical’s one except it points to a plain profile, e.g.

“C:\ … \acwhatever.exe” /p “< >”

where “< >” is the name of a profile. To see what profiles you have defined, use the Options command and look in the Profiles tab.

Please note that this is based on no direct hands-on AutoCAD Architecture knowledge whatsoever, just reasonable guesswork. So if it doesn’t work, I’m probably not going to be able to help.

By: shawhill

shawhill — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:54:42 +0000

i would like to know how to access Autocad in Autocad Architecture. I know there is a way if the program file is altered that you could create a shortcut to enter the regular autocad. i did it with 2011 i just dont have the information anymore

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:35:56 +0000

AJG, it depends on exactly how you have done your custom stuff, but if you’ve done it all in CUI in a default setup, then you can find the cuix at the location specified in Options > Files > Customization files > Main customization file. I suggest you save your workspace with a name of your choice, then copy that file to the equivalent new location. For other settings, in Options > Profiles, export your profile and import that on the new PC. That should grab most of it, but it’s possible to do custom things in AutoCAD in dozens of other ways and I have no idea what has been done in your case.

By: AJG

AJG — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:34:23 +0000

I am using AutoCAD 2011 in the classic version. I will be getting a new work computer soon. I need to make a seamless transition and not miss a beat the instant I have my new computer set up. The office computer technician is not familiar with AutoCAD at all and cannot guarantee that all my quick key commands and all my button commands (both non-custom and custom) will be carried over. I cannot afford to spend any time re-setting up my whole AutoCAD screen to work and appear the way it is right now. Can anyone tell me where I need to look for all the necessary various menu files that will need to be copied over to my new computer so this equipment transition can be made without any hang ups? This is critical. Please help.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:23:51 +0000

Does anyone know how to: isolate layers and have only those that you isolate show up (and not have the other layers ‘faded back’…makes it confusing when I’m trying to delete objects on a certain known layer to have all the other layers still there, just faded back. Any help would be much appreciated!