Problems deleting annotative objects

Recently, I’ve had trouble deleting annotative text.  I’d select it and delete it, to no avail whatsoever.  Talked to a co-worker and discovered a workaround – you have to do the audit command, then select no.  For some reason or another, this is necessary make the text deletable.

 

 

Autocad Macro Commands affecting Pickfirst Properties

I had an issue a little while ago my object selection was being canceled by autocad when I initiated a command.  I thought maybe my pickfirst had been reset to 0 (causes autocad to ask you to select your objects after your command when 0) because of a crash.  I discovered it was set to 1 so that was not the problem.

 

Then after a little sleuthing, I discovered that the command lines for some of the macro command lines in the Customizable User Interface were prefaced by ^C^C_.  This is done in order to cancel out any previously initiated commands that might interfere.  However, this also clears your current object selection as well. 

 

To stop this, you need to go into your CUI (type:CUI) and scroll down to the command causing you issues.  See the attached image for an example of said prefix in the macro for the properties command.  All you need to do is delete it, apply the CUI settings, and hit OK.

 

You are now good to go.

 

 

Dealing with Multiple Surface Boundaries

I’m currently working on a site that has wetlands and numerous boundaries across the surface.  I do not want the surface to triangulate between each of these surfaces, so I’m isolating them with boundaries.  This has proved tricky in how to define things.

 

I define an outer boundary with no breakline first.  Subqequent boundaries are defined as show with no breaklines either.

 

 

Add labels to linework

 

Use the command in the menu pull down as shown.

 

Adjust styles accordingly.