AllyCAD Tech Tips

AllyCAD Tech Tips

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General Tech Tips
How to customise the way AllyCAD looks (1)
Customising AllyCAD (2)
Using Layouts With Viewports At Varying Scales
Using Plots With Viewports At Varying Scales
Drawing Templates (Startup Drawing)
Creating Blocks
Inserting Blocks
Inserting External Reference Drawing
Customising Menus Using The Menu Editor
Customising Pen Palettes - Palette Editor
Customising the Toolbars
Authorising AllyCAD SME/PRO
Annotative Text
How to change the annotative scaling property
Annotation Scales Tutorial
Block Attribute Editor
Determining Which Device Drivers are Installed
Backup And Auto Save Recovery
How to reset the Windows Registry
Updating Printer Drivers
Google Earth Snap Shot Warning
Installing A 64-Bit Access Database Driver

Survey Toolkit
Creating an SG Diagram Template
Tracing a Figure for an SG diagram
SG Diagram with different paper sizes & templates


Dimension Override - modifying dimension text
3D Drawing: 3D box using Meshed Solids
3D Drawing: Drawing a 3D Face Box
Removing 'Override' Of Dimension Text Height
How To Create A Symbol Line Style
How to use the Advanced Selection Filter
Rotating a Viewport
Projecting to Isometric and 3D
How To Insert an OLE Object
Importing a Google Earth Image
The Block Editor Function
Setting the Hatch Pattern
The Purge Function
Defining Hatch Boundaries
External References (XREFs)
Framing and De-Framing
Running Script Functions
Importing & Exporting Survey Coordinates
Pick Functions
Converting Proxy Entities
Generating a fly-through visualisation
Converting a 2D Block to a 3D Block
Creating Line Styles with TTF Font Characters

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