The Tour Continues!

We're on round 4 of the Experience the Possibilities tour...Yesterday was San Jose (very enthusiastic audience when they saw the new features in AutoCAD 2008).  Today I am back in my old stomping grounds of Southern California (the "O.C." more specifically).  I am looking forward to seeing some of my favorite CAD buddies today like Shane Bartley (Disney), Bob Kellerman, Jim Balding (WATG), Perry Burch...the list goes on and on!  The event takes place at the Anaheim Marriott - right across from Disneyland - I wish we had a little more time so I could visit there!  But alas...we run to our next flight to Seattle right after our presentations.  : (

As I've been running from town to town I have been throwing in some pretty obscure (yet powerful) tips and tricks on AutoCAD...let's quickly hit one that I've had very few know about.

AutoCAD Hip Tip for Changing the Sample Text String in MTEXT:

Come on...it defaults to "Abc"...how dull is that?  It's your AutoCAD system - why not customize it to something that makes your everyday drawing life just a little more exciting?  You can change that sample string that displays every time you enter the popular MTEXT command so easily by using the MTJIGSTRING system variable (don't ask me what that stands for - I have no idea!).  Set it to your favorite sports team, pet, or anything that makes you happy to see because let's face it - you see this sample string all the time!

Command:  MTJIGSTRING
Enter new value for MTJIGSTRING, or . for none:  Go Colts

And Voila!  You have a new sample text string custom made for you!  Note that you can only choose a string up to 8 characters...

All I know is that everyone writes this down when I mention it so it must be a pretty popular tip! I'm off to my Inventor Prezo!