Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Cycling Through Drawings

I would imagine that there are different ways that people go between open drawings. Just in case people don’t know all their options, here they are:

  1. One way is to up to the Window pull-down and select the drawing they want to open. I use this mostly when I have a bazillion drawings open……Yes, I know.
  2. You can minimize each drawing and hopefully select the right one you are looking for….probably the hardest way to switch between drawings.
  3. Another way to switch between drawings is to go to the Windows pull-down and Choose Cascade or Tile. I’m not sure when you would want to Cascade, but Tiling can sometimes be beneficial if you only have 2 drawings open only and you need to do some copy and pasting or some comparison work.
  4. Also, there is a system variable that you can type in at your command line called TASKBAR. Set that to 1 and it will place all your open drawings on your windows taskbar. It isn’t opening additional versions of autocad, but placing an icon there.
  5. My favorite way, personally, is to hold down CTRL key and press the TAB key to cycle forward through your drawings. You can also hold down CTRL + SHIFT key at the same time then press the TAB key and it will cycle backwards through the drawings.

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