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Summary QuikPik is a suite of user interface enhancements designed to make the AutoCAD interface more useful and productive. QuikPik adds 19 separate features including resizable dialogs, faster mouse input (no more missed clicks!), locking toolbars, enhanced right-click input, taller and wider dropdowns, and many more common user requests. QuikPik supports the following AutoCAD platforms: ...

Summary Periscope provides fast drawing entity feedback in a compact tooltip-like scope window as you move the cursor over the objects (including objects nested in blocks). The displayed information is designed to supplement the visual information seen on the screen by showing “invisible” properties in an intuitive and compact fashion. Two common uses are to quickly get a grasp on the contents of drawings obtained from third parties and to check drawings for drafting standards conformance. Custom extenders may be created in VBA or .NET to extend or modify the information displayed in the scope window by providing text with HTML formatting. Periscope supports the following platforms: ...

Summary SuperPurge is designed to give AutoCAD users complete control over the contents of their drawing files. A dialog interface provides graphical access to hidden drawing database objects such as layers, dictionaries, proxy objects, and other symbol table objects. Even referenced objects may be purged safely and cleanly with the ‘Hard’ purge mode. SuperPurge supports the following AutoCAD platforms, including vertical market solutions based on these platforms (however AutoCAD LT is not supported): ...

Introduction DrafTools is an old unsupported freeware AutoCAD add-on for AutoCAD R14 and AutoCAD 2000 that facilitates drawing setup by managing custom title blocks and automatically setting system variables based on the drawing scale selected during title block insertion. In addition to simple dialog-box based title block selection and placement, DrafTools allows users to define ‘smart’ attributes in their title blocks which may be programmed to calculate their default value during insertion. ...

Legacy LTX covered ManuSoft tools aimed at AutoCAD LT. Kept here so old links do not die. It is not a current featured product. See Products for the freeware line that is still maintained.

Periscope, QuikPik, and SuperPurge have been updated for AutoCAD 2027.