Welcome to the PostalCAD 2009 tips & tricks page! These weekly tips and tricks will expand your working knowledge of PostalCAD 2009 and AutoCAD Map 3D2009. These simple tips can often create hours of relief to replace hours of frustration. Go ahead and bookmark this invaluable resource page to brighten and enhance your CAD skills. Check back every week to review the "Tip of the Week" to enjoy using the latest release of PostalCAD 2009 with a little more confidence or browse through the archives and expand your working knowledge!
There are many new graphic elements in PostalCAD 2009.
You have seen tool tips with tool bar buttons and ribbon icons
in older versions of the software and now
you can see a
tool tip for any visible object in your drawing.
Without any objects selected and no command active. move your mouse over an object.
after about a second, the roll over tool tip will appear with the basic properties showing.
Cursor paused on a block reference
If these tool tips for objects become a visual nuisance,
open the Options dialogue box to the Display tab
and un-check the Show rollover Tool Tips.
Show rollover Tool Tips listing shown in red rectangle.
Did you miss last week's tip? Here's a link to Last Week's Tip.
Here's the link to our Tip's & Tricks Archive
of every weekly tip since the beginning of 2003.
