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Appreciation post: The 'draw order' trick in AutoCAD saved me from a 4-hour redraw on a site plan yesterday
I was updating a commercial site plan from 2018 for a client in Springfield. The existing file was a mess of xrefs and blocks, and I needed to change the hatch pattern for the parking lot. Every time I tried to select it, I'd grab the property line or a curb detail underneath. I was about to explode the whole thing and start over, which would have taken all afternoon. Then I remembered a comment from an old forum post about using 'DRAWORDER'. I typed it in, sent the hatch to the front, and had it isolated in under a minute. Felt like a total idiot for not using it sooner. What's your go-to command when a drawing gets too 'busy' to work with?
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hunt.jennifer20d ago
LAYISO just makes a bigger mess to clean up later.
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kevin_williams20d ago
Oh man, that feeling is the worst. Been there so many times, just clicking around like an idiot. My go-to is definitely LAYISO to just shut everything else off for a minute. That or turning layers into a frozen mess until I find the one thing I need.
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