HyperPics: Beyond the UI

January Issue of HotNews

The first issue of HotNews for the year is just jammed full of things.  Get ready to flex those customization muscles this year as there are several in this issue, along with many other articles that you will find helpful.

Autodesk Upgrade Tips & Techniques
Time to upgrade an Autodesk product? Here are some tips for making the change.

Controlling Customization, Part III
Third in a series on auto-loading your AutoCAD customizations. This month, loading AutoLISP files.

Customization Corner
Menu customization, Part III: Pull-downs and Shortcuts

TIPniques
Practical advice for recovering lost files.

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Sincerely,
  Lee

General AutoCAD LT Quick Guide (First Time Available)

  Just a couple of days ago I reposted the General AutoCAD Quick Guide.  It included things like used Command Aliases, Accelerated Keys (Keyboard Shortcuts), Coordinate System (Types of Point Entry), Drag 'n Droppable files, Object Snaps and Selection Methods.  Due to some reworking on my site and based on the huge number of downloads that the AutoCAD Quick Guide is getting; I decided to make available for the first time a version of the Quick Guide for AutoCAD LT 2005 users.  There are no other versions available at this time for AutoCAD LT, but hope to make some older versions available at a future date.  Thanks to those that have sent me comments about the AutoCAD 2005 version of the Quick Guide.

Click here to access the AutoCAD LT 2005 version of the Quick Guide

Sincerely,
  Lee

December Issue of HotNews

The December issue of AUGI HotNews is just bursting at the seams with articles.  The articles cover Autodesk University, the Top DAUG competition at AU, Customization and much more.

Find out more about the AU event... AUGI even has posted a slide show on their site and noted some of the highlights during the event.

Who's the 2005 Top DAUG?  Congrats David Harrington for reaching First Place, check out who else made the Top 10 list for this years event.

Other Articles:
Controlling Customization
TIPniques: Prefixes, Part 2
Customization Corner: Menu Customizing, Part 2

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Sincerely,
  Lee

General AutoCAD Quick Guide

  So what are Quick Guides you might be asking?  Typically, Quick Guides are focused on a specific topic and deliver a quick shot of information and might be enough for a general overview at times of some features.  They might also be references that are able to get you up and running very quickly with new features or even old ones that might have been forgotten.  I have been publishing a variety of Quick Guides for many years and releases now.

  Quick Guides are great if you teach AutoCAD classes to new students.  One of the Quick Guides that I have is for many of the commonly used Command Aliases, Accelerated Keys (Keyboard Shortcuts), Coordinate System (Types of Point Entry), Drag 'n Droppable files, Object Snaps and Selection Methods.

Click here to access the AutoCAD 2005 version of the Quick Guide
Need an older version... we might have you covered with Quick Guides going back as far as R14 and through 2004.  To view the many other Quick Guides click here.  Have any ideas or suggestions for information you would like to see covered in a future Quick Guide send me at e-mail at [email protected].

Sincerely,
  Lee

Layer Filter Removal Tool

Based on a recent request to have a command that removes all the Layer Filters from a drawing; I decided to dig through all my samples on my machine and post it.  The tool is written in Visual LISP and is now on my website.  It has two defined commands to run the tool once it is loaded.  The long named command is RemoveLayerFilters and the short name is RLF.  Hope you find it helpful.

Click here to download the Remove Layer Filters tool
Click here to see other AutoLISP tools that are available for download

Sincerely,
  Lee

HyperPics.com Repeats as TenLinks.com "Site of the Week"

HyperPics is proud to be recognized for the second time this year as the "Site of the Week" by TenLinks.com.  HyperPics was recognized back on the week of March 15th for have released a large number of documents for AutoCAD 2005.

"Congratulations! It's very rare that we repeat this honor" - TenLinks.com

Site of the Week website at TenLinks.com

Sincerely,
  Lee

New Online System Variable Reference

Just like the previous online resource that I just mentioned, the System Variable resource has been around for many years in the form of a PDF file only.  This format works great for printing, but requires additional software though.  This is what has driven me to redo some sections of my website.  So I am happy to announce that the new System Variable map is on the HyperPics website.  Many thanks goes to Shaan Hurley at Autodesk for putting up with me and my curiosity that I have for AutoCAD and other Autodesk products.  Hope you enjoy going through it as much as I have enjoyed building and assembling the information.  If you have questions or comments on the site just let me know.

Click here to access the online System Variable section of the HyperPics website.

Sincerely,
  Lee

New Online Command Reference

After many years in the making and some research recently; I am pleased to announce the new online Command Reference section of the HyperPics website.  Some of the credit goes to Shaan Hurley at Autodesk for putting up with me and my curiosity that I have for AutoCAD and other Autodesk products.  This new layout is the result of a joint effort to provide an in-depth amount of information on things in AutoCAD. The online format allows for quick accessing of the Quick Guide PDF for this that don't want to install of use a PDF reader or print it out, but if you want a hardcopy the PDF file is still provided for downloading.  Hope you enjoy going through it as much as I have enjoyed building and assembling the information.  If you have questions or comments on the site just let me know.

Click here to access the online Command section of the HyperPics website.

Sincerely,
  Lee

  Where one journey ends a new one begins...

Revamped Tips and Tricks Section

After posting Tips and Tricks for many years now; I have finally decided it was time to redo that section of the website.  Before each Tip was a separate web page file and took much time to manage, but after some time of looking at ASP. I decided this was a good way to manage this data source.  So I am pleased after a couple days of transferring the content and some research that the new Tips and Tricks section is up and running.  Please let me know what you think as I am looking at making changes to other sections of the website to work in a similar manor.

Click here to access the new Tips and Tricks section on the HyperPics website

Sincerely,
  Lee

November Issue of HotNews by AUGI

AUGI has just released its HotNews issue for the month of November.  As always the issue is packed full of many great articles.

Some of the articles can be found below:

Customization Corner: Menu Customization
Tipniques: Command Prefixes, Part 1
Organize & Standardize Your Customization

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Sincerely,
  Lee