2016

TIPS AND TRICKS
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TIPS AND TRICKS
We spend so much of our AutoCAD time
selecting and editing objects—check out
these handy additions:
Selecting Objects
When selecting objects, the geometry ap-
pears thicker and darker (or lighter, depend-
ing on your background color).
After you select objects, they change color
and remain thickened, so you are certain
you’ve selected the correct objects! (only if
hardware acceleration is on).
Don’t like the new highlight?
Set SELECTIONEFFECT to .
Customize the highlighting color on
the Selection tab of Options (Selection effect
color).
Moving objects will be clearer with the
faded deletion effect. Both Move and Copy
previews are super speedy!
Complex linetypes display true to form as you
draw and edit them.
Set COMPLEXLTPREVIEW to  to turn
this feature off.
Object Selection
Property preview performance is
vastly improved with large selection sets.
Lasso Selection
Click and drag your cursor to use the versatile
Lasso selection—click and release for the
traditional rectangular selection.
This behavior can be turned off on
the Selection tab of Options.
Hit the spacebar to cycle between window,
crossing and fence options.
Command Preview
Preview the results of so many editing com-
mands including Blend, Erase, Stretch, Rotate
and Scale.
The Command Preview control on
the Selection tab of Options enables/disables
this cool feature.
Geometric Center Object Snap
New object snap (GCE) finds the geometric
center of polygons and closed polylines.
A new glyph indicates geometric
center.
Object Selection
Object Selection