AutoCAD Abilities You Can Control in LT

There are some abilities in full AutoCAD that LT cannot use fully, but you can at least control some of them. Here is a listing of items LT can manage:

• Work with Fields: In AutoCAD, you can insert LispVariables fields, which are not available in
• AutoCAD LT. However, the drawings created in AutoCAD that contain LispVariables can be opened without errors in AutoCAD LT, and the cached value is displayed.
• Work with Multiple User Coordinate Systems: In AutoCAD, you can choose to use a different user coordinate system (UCS) in each viewport in a single drawing file. In AutoCAD LT, you can use only one UCS in each drawing file. The AutoCAD LT behavior is the same as it was in previous releases.
• Work with AutoCAD LT 2D and 3D Solid Object Shading: In AutoCAD, visual styles provide shading  and wireframe options for objects in the current viewport. AutoCAD LT does not support visual  styles. The SHADEMODE command in AutoCAD LT provides only the 2D Wireframe and Hidden options.  You can use SHADEMODE in AutoCAD LT to turn off visual styles in viewports that were created in  AutoCAD.
• Work with Constraints: You cannot create constraints within AutoCAD LT. With LT, you can View drawings containing constraints created using AutoCAD, plus View and edit the geometric and dimensional constraints.
• Work with Dynamic Blocks: In AutoCAD, you can add new constraint parameters to a dynamic block  in the Block Editor. In AutoCAD LT, you can open drawings which include a block definition containing geometric or dimensional constraints or a block properties table but cannot add new parameters to the block definition.
• Modify 3D Point Clouds: You cannot explode, index or attach a point cloud with AutoCAD LT. But you can open drawings created in AutoCAD that contain point clouds.
• Turn Off Perspective View in an AutoCAD Drawing: Set the PERSPECTIVE system variable to 0 to turn off perspective view in an AutoCAD drawing that is open in AutoCAD LT. You cannot turn on perspective view in a drawing that is open in AutoCAD LT.

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AutoCAD Abilities You Can Control in LT

Twitter Posts revisited:

Below is a summary of topics we covered recently on Twitter. Click on the links at the end of each topic and explore the command or feature in more detail in AutoCAD/LT's HELP.

• LOCKUI command locks the position and size of toolbars and dockable windows such as DesignCenter, Properties palette http://tinyurl.com/3arq5nt
• LAYOUTCREATEVIEWPORT command controls whether a viewport is created automatically on each new layout added to drawing http://tinyurl.com/3pt2zzs
• LAYLOCKFADECTL command controls the amount of fading for objects on locked layers http://tinyurl.com/3hgpclt
• All your #Autodesk mobile #apps in one handy place: http://autode.sk/wOmWUX #AutoCADWS
• LAYERFILTERALERT command deletes excessive layer filters to improve performance http://tinyurl.com/3b4k36c
• LAYEREVAL command specifies whether the layer list is evaluated for new layers when added to the drawing or to attached xrefs
• LENGTHEN command changes the length of objects and the included angle of arcs http://tinyurl.com/3khzwfz
• LAYOUTWIZARD command creates a new layout tab and specifies page and plot settings http://tinyurl.com/3we38t2
• LAYOUT command creates and modifies drawing layouts http://tinyurl.com/3o2bapg

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Twitter Posts revisited: Layers and Regions

Below is a summary of topics we covered recently on Twitter. Click on the links at the end of each topic and explore the command or feature in more detail in AutoCAD/LT's HELP.

• LAYWALK command displays objects on selected layers and hides objects on all other layers http://tinyurl.com/3be2yo4
• LAYERSTATE command saves, restores, and manages named layer states http://tinyurl.com/3oz5qb4
• LAYERPMODE turns on and off the tracking of changes made to layer settings http://tinyurl.com/3ezhqol
• LAYERP command undoes the last change or set of changes made to layer settings http://tinyurl.com/3puzx3c
• LAYCUR command changes the layer property of selected objects to the current layer http://tinyurl.com/4343d7p
• JUSTIFYTEXT command changes the justification point of selected text objects without changing their locations http://tinyurl.com/3kpwksr
• Classic tip: ISAVEBAK should be set to 1, and ISAVEPERCENT set to 0.
• INSNAME command sets a default block name for the INSERT command http://tinyurl.com/3edc2d2
• ISOLATEOBJECTS command displays selected objects across layers; unselected objects are hidden http://tinyurl.com/43hhaeq
• INTERSECT command creates a 2D region from selected overlapping regions http://tinyurl.com/3go93t7
• IMAGECLIP command crops the display of a selected image to a specified boundary http://tinyurl.com/44gjuuk

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Twitter Posts revisited: Layers and Regions

Twitter Posts revisited: Hatch settings

Below is a summary of topics we covered recently on Twitter. Click on the links at the end of each topic and explore the command or feature in more detail in AutoCAD/LT's HELP.

• HPSEPARATE Command more information http://tinyurl.com/3lqjx4z
• HPSEPARATE Controls whether a single hatch object or separate hatch objects are created when operating on several closed boundaries
• HPCOLOR Sets a default color for new hatches. HPLAYER Specifies a default layer for new hatches and fills.
• HPBOUNDRETAIN command controls whether boundary objects are created for new hatches and fills http://tinyurl.com/3uy2hcq
• HPBOUND command controls the object type created by HATCH and BOUNDARY http://tinyurl.com/3g5gr4k
• HPASSOC command controls whether hatches and fills are associative http://tinyurl.com/3gu2e4m
• HPANNOTATIVE command controls whether a new hatch pattern is annotative http://tinyurl.com/3cnl79g
• HIDETEXT command Specifies whether text objects created by the TEXT or MTEXT command are processed during HIDE command http://tinyurl.com/3hvzrgb
• HIDEOBJECTS Command Hides selected objects http://tinyurl.com/3c34n9l
• HATCHSETORIGIN Controls the starting location of hatch pattern generation for a selected hatch http://tinyurl.com/3lfav9z
• HATCHSETBOUNDARY Redefines a selected hatch or fill to conform to a different closed boundary http://tinyurl.com/3qou8tj
• HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY Creates a non-associated polyline around a selected hatch http://tinyurl.com/3o68f5e

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Twitter Posts revisited: Hatch settings

AutoCAD Tips that work in LT: Part 5

Below are posts from fellow AutoCAD users with tips that are of equal use to LT users. Explore each link and start being more productive tomorrow (no April Fools tips here).

• bcbenton File Naming Conventions are Really Data Management Rules http://ow.ly/1gx9s8
• bcbenton Training: Why Are You Waiting for “Training” from Someone Else … Now that the new year… http://goo.gl/m5Mll
• bcbenton How Not to CAD – File Paths and Name Changes http://ow.ly/1gyov4
• AutoCAD_WS Practical tips on how to improve your design pitch with #AutoCADWS - http://autode.sk/wdRzhO
• bcbenton Where do AutoCAD Dimensions Belong? Paper Space or Model Space?: There are some topics that… http://goo.gl/fb/hwwLB
• Jeff Bartels AutoCAD Tip: Want to lengthen the Recent Documents list? Launch OPTIONS (Open & Save tab) & change # of recently-used files. Max=50
• Vladimir Michl New CAD tip: Selecting multiple objects in a particular order. http://bit.ly/yb7fvW
• Lynn Allen DIMROTATED (top secret dim command in #AutoCAD) http://bit.ly/18zzrt
• Jeff Bartels AutoCAD Tip: Have a hatch object that's missing a boundary? Select hatch, right-click & choose "Generate Boundary" to create a new one.
• Vladimir Michl New CAD tip: Batch print for multiple drawings, multiple printers and copies. http://bit.ly/way1rC
• Lynn Allen: the new Path Array in AutoCAD 2012 let's you array along a spline (awesome!) No need to use divide or measure! Work with LT2012 as well.
• EFinkelstein:"Open AutoCAD with a specific template http://bit.ly/wEJOii”
• LT users can use this tip too “Vladimir Michl New CAD tip: How to increase width of the layer control in AutoCAD ribbon? http://bit.ly/yugdPP”
• cadpanacea: Example uses for the internal AutoCAD CAL command http://bit.ly/z3Amxp. Works in LT.

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AutoCAD Tips that work in LT: Part 5