A million thanks for ALL those emails about the Colts! You are all much too kind. I'm sure you international folks are shaking your heads over my last post...football (as we Americans know it) just isn't very popular any where else.
Tonight I have two great people coming over for dinner! Heidi Hewett , also a fellow blogger and the Sheet Set Queen, and Matt Murphy, one of our top speakers at AU and the AUGI CAD Camp King! Be sure to check out the AUGI CAD Camp schedule to see if there is one coming to your neighborhood...you won't want to miss out on that! Heidi is the one who does our internal AutoCAD training whenever another release of AutoCAD is coming out so it's always very educational hanging out with her...(and fun as well)...
On to an AutoCAD Hip Tip on Attributes:
There a couple of system variables that control what happens when we are using attributes. These tools are easily overlooked and yet can make a huge difference in our leveryday drawing ives...
ATTREQ: this system variable controls whether or not attribute values are requested (ON by default). If you are in a rush and need to get a drawing out the door quickly with no time to input those attribute values you can turn this off. Or if you know you are just going to use the defaults for some of your insertions then save yourself some extra steps! Be sure to turn them back ON for the next guy or you might find him pounding his head against the wall (and we don't want that now do we?).
ATTDIA: By default, AutoCAD will prompt for attribute values at the command prompt. This is fine if you are new to the 21st century, but many of us would prefer to step it up and use a dialog box. setting ATTDIA to 1 (for ON) will force a friendly dialog box.
Note: You will only get a dialog box if you insert your blocks from the INSERT command. If you drag them from DesignCenter (or another drawing) you still get the prompts at the command prompt (what's up with that?).
You'll also notice that ATTDIA is off by default...too funny!
And a friendly reminder that the Express Tool BURST will allow you to explode a block with attributes and keep those attribute values you've worked so hard to assign...
And one more picture of the fabulous AUGI Board...here we all are at my house for dinner...(Thanks so much for all the great wine Bill! Especially the Stickies!). Melanie, Mistress of the Dorkness also joined us (she also happen's to be Mike Perry's wife). We had so much fun wrapping up their 3 day meeting at our little shindig.
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