The AutoCAD AutoStack
Sunday, December 11, 2005
I have received a couple of e-mails from some friends asking me how to restore the AutoCAD AutoStack proprieties dialog box when you have suppressed the automatic display (by mistake, etc). So I resolved posting the solution on my blog.
First right-click over the stacked text and choose Properties on the shortcut menu.
First right-click over the stacked text and choose Properties on the shortcut menu.
In the Stack Properties dialog box, click AutoStack.
Once you click on the AutoStack bottom the AutoStack proprieties window opens and you can uncheck the checkmark saying “Don’t show this dialog again; always use these settings”. By doing this, you will suppress the constant pop-up of AutoStack.
Turn off the grey background mask of a field
Last week I start using some fields on my projects for displaying and automatically updating the area every time I change the size of a new sign structures that I’m currently designing. This is in fact a cool feature that is available on the last couple of versions of AutoCAD. The only thing I don’t like is the annoying grey background mask. I know that it doesn’t print but for me it is still annoying. For anyone that agrees with me and wants to know how to turn off the grey background mask, simply type on the command line “fielddisplay” and then “0”.
<0> turn off grey background mask
<1> turn on grey background mask.
The default value is <1>.
<0> turn off grey background mask
<1> turn on grey background mask.
The default value is <1>.
