How to rotate viewports in paper space

If you are a surveyor, civil engineer, or architect, we need to draw in model space the real-world coordinate and orientation. However sometimes we want to rotate the drawing orientation to match the paper for plotting/publishing purpose.

Use the MVSETUP command and it's options " align viewports", "rotate view".

alternatively, you can use the DVIEW command with the "twist" option. Or you can rotate an UCS about the z-axis and if you don't have the UCSFOLLOW variable set to 1, set the PLAN view.

You can also use the express tool ALIGNSPACE.

Since autocad 2010, you can use VPROTATEASSOC variable to control the associative rotation of the contents of the viewport.

MTEXT to lower case and back

Have you ever typed a note in AutoCAD's Mtext editor only to find out that your caps lock was on (or off depending on what you want to accomplish)? There are a few things you can do to fix it. Right click in the editor and select the CHANGE CASE option. Or, press Ctrl + Shift + U to set the text to Upper Case, OR . . . . press Ctrl + Shift + L to set the test to Lower Case.

autocad match properties settings

Many of AutoCAD users already know that we can match object properties using MATCHPROP (or MA for short key in). This tool is very handy for you who wants to change an object properties to copy other object’s.

But many of us don’t realize that there are some settings that we can use in this tool. It allows us to use this tool to match only a specific property. So you don’t have to use separate tool like LAYERMCH to match only layer.

Let’s say you want to copy an object line style. But you don’t want to copy it’s color, layer, and any other properties.
Let’s try to activate this tool. Type MA then hit [enter].

You can also use activate this tool from AutoCAD ribbon> home tab> clipboard panel.

Command:  MATCHPROP

Select source object:

Current active settings:  Ltype Ltscale Dim Text Hatch Polyline Viewport Table

Material Shadow display Multileader

Select destination object(s) or [Settings]:

After you activate the tool, pay attention that there is an option to choose settings in AutoCAD command line. Type S then hit [enter].

You will see property settings dialog box.

Uncheck anything that you don’t want to change. Click OK. Now you can copy selective properties to your AutoCAD objects!

how to draw a perfect revision cloud

1. draw a rectangle or circle using the REC OR CIRCLE command.
   
2. type REVCLOUD in the command line and press enter or space.
3. Type A in the command line and press enter or space, change arc length.
4. Type O in the command line, click on the rectangle or the circle, and type N.