The Experience Tour Continues!

Well we are on week three of The Experience Tour now...(last week we took off to work on content for Autodesk University).  Detroit yesterday, Toronto today and tomorrow I hit an AUGI CAD Camp in Atlanta - phew!  Then I get to enjoy a much needed weeks vacation (you probably won't be hearing from me) before we jump into another 5 weeks of The Experience Tour.

I noticed that my AutoCAD 2009 Screencast is on the Autodesk home page.  Be sure to have a look at that if you miss the actual tour.

AutoCAD Hip Tip:  How to quickly find the properties of an object in a block or Xref!

Yesterday in Detroit someone asked me how to quickly find layer information of an object in an Xref.  I rattled that around in my head while another attendee blurted out the XLIST command (thankfully!).  The XLIST command is actually an Express tool that was created to list the type, block name, layer name, color and linetype of a nested object in a block or an xref. This fabulous command is simple.  Select the object within the block or Xref and AutoCAD will display the properties (unlike the standard Properties command).

It doesn't get much easier than that!

I wonder who is going to get the boot on American Idol tonight!  I wasn't able to watch it last night due to traveling (such a drag) but I do have it on Tivo! 

I'm off to do my presentation!