In a previous post, AutoCAD 2009 - Find and Replace, I spoke about the changes in AutoCAD 2009's Find and replace command. It now automatically zooms to the text you find, but when you quit the command you are returned to where you were when you started the command. That means you can no longer use the find command to find text!
One of CAD-a-Blog's great and highly intelligent readers came up with a work around. Use the find command and zoom to the text. Close the command. then execute a Zoom PREVIOUS!!! Fantastic! It works, I tried it. It also works in 2008.
Just start the find command, find your text, zoom to it (it does this automatically now). Then close the command. Then start the zoom command, then type in P for previous and there you go, at your text!
Great tip, great workaround! Keep them coming.
Happy CADing!
except it doesn't work for me at all. and i believe it doesn't work for other people either. Using 2008 arx,dbx, and dll files and replacing the 2009 files works a treat for getting the old command back but it makes 09 unstable.
ReplyDeleteMake sure to use the zoom and just the automatic zoom. And yeah, replacing the 2009 files with the 2008 is not the best solution because of the problems it causes else where.
ReplyDeleteI tried to have the find command zoom to something using your technique and i couldnt get it to work... i'm using acad mechanical 2009 and i thought that it might work in the regular acad and it still didn't.... so could it possibly be a setting?
ReplyDeleteI tried to have the find command zoom to something using your technique and i couldnt get it to work... i'm using acad mechanical 2009 and i thought that it might work in the regular acad and it still didn't.... so could it possibly be a setting?
ReplyDeleteUsing the automatic zoom, or clicking from the list brings up a close-up of the text, but Zoom Previous does NOT take you (or at least me and everyone else that posted) to the found text.
ReplyDeleteTime for some Autolisp.
Damn you Autodesk!
I don't understand why others can't get that workaround to work because I have been using it. Well it is a mute point now beacuse Autodesk just released Service Pack 1 and that fixes the issue.
ReplyDeleteSee my post on it:
http://cadablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/autocad-2009-service-pack-1-its-about.html
it doesn't work at all!!!
ReplyDeleteOk, on the bottom left-hand corner of the screen the coordinates are displayed. When in the find command, Simply:
ReplyDelete1. Record the coordinates, in the form x, y, z, then exit the find command.
2. Draw a line from (this could be any) 0, 0, 0 to x, y, z, and follow the line from the origin to the object you were searching for.
3. By the way, I was in a hurry,I asked the LORD to help me, n das what He showed me ;