AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: As I’ve mentioned in previous Tuesday Tips articles, I like to share tools and tips that tend to be less known or underutilized but can still provide a boost to your productivity and workflow. Today, I want to highlight another Express Tool that can come in handy no matter what type of drafting or design you do—Auto Number. As the name implies the Auto Number command allows you to automatically add a number to selected labels or text within a drawing.
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This is a really neat little trick that can definitely help with annotating draftings that have lots of callouts. When I've used Vectorworks, I appreciated their auto-numbering feature with the added bonus of having multiple numbers change for each object, and while this isn't the same system in AutoCAD it is definitely helpful. Additionally, in scenery we don't handle nearly as much numbering as we would in electrics between addresses, channels, unit numbers, circuits, and dimmers. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like this feature works for text that is inside of a block, such as a view title or title block. This differs from vectorworks in that you can edit object properties and fields which are directly, and since I personally use a lot of blocks it doesn't seem like I'll be using this on a regular basis, but its a nice tool to keep in my back pocket for large arrays of labels (such as the Rinaldo maso floor layout I did a few weeks back).
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