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Editing Multiline Intersections in AutoCAD

July 7, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

If you have two multilines in a drawing, you can control the way they intersect. Multilines can intersect in a cross or a T shape, and the crosses or T shapes can be closed, open, or merged.

To create a closed cross intersection

From the Modify menu, choose Multiline.
In the Multiline Edit Tools dialog box, click Closed [...]
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The biggest DWG file I’ve ever seen

July 7, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

Today, I tried to investigate a DWG file that one of my users couldn’t open. It wouldn’t open for me on an old 1 GB PC. Trying a PC with 4 GB didn’t help, and neither did experimenting with various releases of AutoCAD. Depending on the release, AutoCAD would either try to open the drawing and eventually die with an out of memory error, or would instantly inform me that the drawing was too big to open. I don’t have access to a 64-bit version of AutoCAD (which might possibly be able to open this monster on a PC with more than 4 GB of RAM), so the drawing is …

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