Generate Boundary

Every once in a while you have the hatch but not the boundary and it turns out you need just the opposite. Good news! Right click on the hatch and select the "Generate Boundary" option.


Very nice.

AutoCAD Error - a valid license could not be found

Everything was going fine, then one day, one user can not open AutoCAD. She gets the a valid license could not be found error. The weird thing(s) are that there are plenty of licenses and she can open Revit which using the same license. then I find this thread that tracked the problem down to a corrupt CascadeInfo.cas file in C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\AdLM with help of Process Monitor.

After deleteing it and starting AutoCAD the file was recreated and everything works fine now.


Thank you discussion groups!


Update: Here is a link to the Autodesk fix. It is more detailed.

Scale Reference

If you did not know about this command you are really missing out. If you are in the scale command and have picked objects to scale and a base point, you can specify by reference by typing an R. I do this all the time when I don't know at what scale something drawn, but I do know a specific portion like a door is 3 feet. I click off the width of the door and type 36 to scale the entire drawing down to the nat's booty.


I just talked about about it. Check out Autodesks super tip on Scale reference.

Lynn Allen's AutoCAD 2011 Tips and Tricks

Nobody does it better. Check out Lynn Allen's Blog for how to download her AutoCAD 2011 Tips and Tricks.

Favorite AutoCAD 2011 Features - Missing SHX and Font Files

Having the option to ignore missing SHX files (shape or font files) when opening a drawing is about the coolest thing that ever happened. Normally when you get this error there is nothing you can do anyway, so being able to just ignore this warning forever is a blessing. 


FONTALT can be used to control the dialog if you want it back for some reason after you click the "Always perform my current choice" box.