Viewports before 2008 could be locked by right-click menu option or the properties pallette. Now you can be in the viewport and lock it. There is a lock icon on the Status Bar, as well as the vp scale and the annotation scale (Annotation scale will be discussed later). The scale can be changed when the viewport is not locked.

Also, These features do not show up in the status bar until you are in the viewport.

Dimensions are in pieces? DIMASSOC to 1

Dimassoc turns on and off the associations of all the parts to a dimensions. Set to 0 will cause your dimensions to be just a bunch of lines, as if you exploded the dimension. Set to 1 gives you the ability to adjust the dimension in one piece.

OVERKILL

OVERKILL removes unneccessary objects by deleting duplicates.

Thanks to Allisa, I know have another command in my arsenal.

Oh yeah!

J for Join

J - The join command is just like the heal command except it can do more. You can join ellipitical arcs, circles, splines and lines together.

MAXACTIVEVP

When you have too many active viewports and a few begin to hide your drawing, use MAXACTVP and expand the number. Typically it is set to 16.

TJUST - Text Justification

If you would like to RE-justify your text without changing your text position


type TJUST or go to EXPRESS -> TEXT -> JUSTIFY TEXT. Select your text and then select from the options on the command line. START is the left justification point.