Friday, February 13, 2009

Express Tools in AutoCAD LT 2009

Of the 122 separate tools in the Express Tools collection, only the 19 tools listed below are active in AutoCAD LT 2009. (the comparison matrix provided by Autodesk shows the Express Tools as being checked, or included, in AutoCAD LT 2009.)

· CHSPACE
· CLOSEALL
· COPYTOLAYER
· LAYCUR
· LAYDEL
· LAYFRZ
· LAYISO
· LAYLCK
· LAYMCH
· LAYMRG
· LAYOFF
· LAYON
· LAYTHW
· LAYULK
· LAYUNISO
· LAYVPI
· LAYWALK
· REVCLOUD
· WIPEOUT

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=11680974&linkID=9240817 Express Tools in AutoCAD LT 2009Published date: 2008-Aug-14 ID: TS1088646 Applies to:AutoCAD LT® 2009

Add on utility to expand LT...
http://www.globalcad.com/products/toolboxlt.htm
(this is unsupported by autodesk)

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Slow Startup of AutoCAD 2008 files

If AutoCAD is slow to open on one file but not another it may be attributed to the annotation scale list. This can be fixed by typing scalelistedit in the command line of the offending drawing, then deleting the extra scales. This would also have to be done in any xrefs as well. The creation of extra annotation scales has since been addressed by Autodesk.