http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/ AutoCad Users - General help,information,files re: using AutoCad. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:54:53 GMT Nagendra Kumar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10591 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10591 hi greg, thanks for the reply i solved this problem myself the problem is because of variable *PICKFIRST * Nagendra. ... [Non-text portions of this message Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:36:10 GMT Nagendra Kumar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10590 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10590 i have this weird problem from today morning whenever i select a entity it was not showing current properties in the layer toolbar, such as current Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:45:44 GMT Corcorran, Darrell FGCI http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10589 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10589 This is considered spam. I suggest you do NOT, follow the link. The member that sent this will get this one warning, in case they were victim of a 'bot. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:54:16 GMT James Donaldson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10588 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10588 Anyone know what this is about? Just a little hard to trust anything like this now a days. Jim Please consider the environment before printing this email. ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:15:10 GMT Makarand Kubal http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10587 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10587 Makarand Kubal belongs to Skoost and sent you a little gift. Click below to collect your gift: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:49:37 GMT James Donaldson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10586 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10586 Not really. 2009 and 2010 use the new Microsoft style ribbon menu. Also along the MS line many of the commands and features have been moved or altered. The Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:22:08 GMT raggedrobbo48 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10585 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10585 Has much changed since 2007 at the moment I am having trouble getting the 2010 bible can I still use the books for 2007 if I need references Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:28:46 GMT Gene Fowler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10584 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10584 Another thing I forgot to mention is that if you enter an asterist then the block number/namd, the block is exploded upon insertion. At least in the old ACAD Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:04:48 GMT wahyudin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10583 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10583 change the status "allow exploding" to "yes" , u can find this status in block editor , enter the block editor, then type "properties" / "mo" , ,, u cud find Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:57:59 GMT Gene Fowler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10582 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10582 Maybe a back door method. Bolock the block out of the drawing under a fictitious name. Open the THAT grawing and view the contents. Insert the parts listed. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:48:05 GMT Todd Burns http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10581 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10581 I don't have the original block to open.  It was a block already inserted into the drawing.  At first I thought it was an xref but it is listed as a block. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:52:09 GMT Gene Fowler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10580 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10580 could it be a block within a block ? if so I think you have to open the block itself, explode and save again. Make sure the old block is purged from the Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:37:05 GMT Todd Burns http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10579 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10579 I have come across something new to me.  I am using CAD 2008 and the drawing I am working on has a block that is listed and not to allow exploding.  I want Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:27:54 GMT starryskyn http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10578 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10578 Long ago in AutoCAD, when text over an object couldn't be read easily, a "cloud" made of a 3D Face was between the text and the background object. This Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:41:27 GMT Robert Schroeder, Jr. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10577 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/autocadusers/message/10577 Unfortunately, the actual model is much more complicated that a single cylinder and cube. There are various tubes, elbows and smaller cubes that within the