Annotative scale has been in AutoCAD since 2007 and it is still the thing that most reliably confuses people. The idea is simple. The behaviour, once you have three viewports and an xref, is not. This is what it actually does, why your text disappears, and the handful of traps that account for nearly every complaint about it. What annotative actually … [Read more...] about AutoCAD Annotative Scale Explained: Traps and Fixes
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Does Autodesk’s AI Write AutoLISP? What 2027 Ships
The question everyone arrives with Autodesk has AI in AutoCAD now. So it writes your LISP, right? Or it is about to, and there is no point learning any of this? It is a fair assumption and it is worth answering properly, because the answer is unusually clear-cut. We went through Autodesk's own AutoCAD 2027 launch material and checked what the Autodesk Assistant is documented … [Read more...] about Does Autodesk’s AI Write AutoLISP? What 2027 Ships
AI-Written AutoLISP on AutoCAD LT: What Breaks
The seat most drafting offices actually pay for AutoCAD LT gained AutoLISP in the 2024 release. For a version whose entire identity for thirty years was "the one you cannot customise", that was a genuinely big change, and it went past most people without a ripple. It matters now for a reason nobody planned. Ask a chatbot for an AutoLISP routine and it will happily reach for … [Read more...] about AI-Written AutoLISP on AutoCAD LT: What Breaks
Stop AI Inventing AutoLISP Functions: Free Allowlist
On 15 December 2025, in the Autodesk forum thread Microsoft CoPilot AI can write AutoLisp coding, a user called SamBensonL4GSH asked a straightforward question: "I know that you can add knowledge sources to Microsoft Co-Pilot, does anyone have any good ones that they've used for theirs or would recommend?" Kent1Cooper quoted that in full and added one line of his own, square … [Read more...] about Stop AI Inventing AutoLISP Functions: Free Allowlist
AI-Generated AutoLISP: What Actually Breaks (2026)
Nobody has written the failure list Search any of the obvious queries — "can AI write AutoLISP", "ChatGPT AutoLISP", "AI generated AutoLISP code" — and you get two kinds of page. One is a tutorial on how to prompt it. The other is a forum thread where somebody pastes a broken routine and three veterans take turns fixing it. A ranking check across six of those queries on 27 … [Read more...] about AI-Generated AutoLISP: What Actually Breaks (2026)
The History of AutoCAD, According to Bing AI
Asking the BING AI "The History of AutoCAD" Creative Response: AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application1. It was developed and marketed by Autodesk, a company founded in 1982 by John Walker and 15 co-founders2. AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal … [Read more...] about The History of AutoCAD, According to Bing AI