I’m sure you’ve received a cad file from someone at some point. I’m aware of the frustration when trying to read the fine print while working on a project. Having worked on the shop floor of a millwork shop for several years. I like to take the opportunity to draw as close to 1-1/2” scale where ever possible. But then the page looked very empty at the scale that I started with. Maybe I started out thinking I would need more space for the dimensions and leaders. I now use this command all of the time, but now it’s mostly for adjusting scales. Often times I think this is created by toggling on the button “Add scales to annotative objects with the annotation scale changes” without realizing what a mess it makes of the drawing. We like our drawings here at Superior Shop Drawings to be clean without excess “junk” or unused scales in them. It was for the purpose of removing excess scales from a drawing that someone else had worked on. When I first went looking to Google to see if a command like this was already out there.

This works for dimensions as well as blocks as I’ll demonstrate in the video below. This LISP file is for removing and or changing the annotative objects. I did rename this one to “ANO”, I don’t like having to type in more than necessary to launch commands. So let’s get to it, here are my top 5 LISP files that I can no longer work without. His website has free custom programs and tutorials for the AutoCAD community. Lee Mac has one of the largest collections I’ve come across when it comes to LIPS files. If you are not familiar with LISP files, check out Lee Mac’s page for instructions on it. My initial thought was “how many hours have I wasted before using these? I wish someone had shown them to me sooner.” It was like someone gave me a cheat code to Autocad. I can remember when I first stumbled on to LISP files.

Not having just one of them would greatly impact the speed at which I’m able to produce drawings. While there are a lot of LISP files for AutoCAD to talk about, there are 5 that I use keeping productivity in mind.

Autocad lisp routines