TABLE OF CONTENTS Over the years, I ve gotten a lot of phone calls, e-mails, questions at workshops, and other sorts of queries from people stymied by something in AutoCAD. Because I teach at a public college, I consider answering these questions to be part of my job; but in truth, I like being an unofficial help desk. Troubleshooting other people s problems keeps me up to date, and there is something really satisfying about sleuthing on other users behalf. This book is, in large part, the result of all that problem solving.
The 35 puzzlers in this final chapter don t result from bugs or glitches that inevitably occur in any software program. On the contrary, they result from normal AutoCAD behavior that is, behavior that poses a problem either because you ve never encountered it before or because you don t understand how you re causing it to happen.
See how many puzzlers you can solve. If you ve read this book carefully, you should have all the tools you need. I ve discussed all the solutions at some point in this book, and you may also find alternative solutions. I ll provide mine but you have to turn to the pages at the end of the chapter to find them. How much fun would it be otherwise?
The Puzzlers
The Solutions
Each of these puzzlers came to me as an actual question by an AutoCAD user; many came from multiple sources. In some cases, the user who asked the question was merely perplexed, but in...
