CAD Tips

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AutoCAD Tutorials & Tips

 

Change the scale of blocks and hatches in tool palettes

Rotating the Crosshairs/Drawing at an Angle

Toggling the display of grips within blocks

Customize Polar Tracking Angles

Creating exponents using stacked text

Using hyperlinks

Find the midpoint between two points or the center of a triangle

Draw minor and clockwise arcs

Pre-specify an angle

Chain dynamic blocks (AutoCAD 2006 and later)

Dynamic blocks: the white papers

Open a drawing to a named view

Dynamic blocks tutorial

Repeat previous commands

Align a block to other objects (2006 and later)

Flip objects with dynamic blocks

Tutorial: Display the area of an enclosed figure

Avoid drawing temporary construction lines

Temporarily override object snap settings

Tutorial: Create a simple sheet set

Keyboard shortcuts

Control hatch origin

Create a circle with a width

Use the Dashboard to display a related tool palette

Select a block before a writeblock or edit

Control the display of tooltips

AutoCAD Tutorial: Create a dynamic block of a door

Rotate One Object to Match Another

Copy as you stretch, move, rotate, or scale & create multiple leader arrows

Setting a system variable on the tool palette

Redefining a block without losing your insertion point

Breaking a line into two

Joining Two Lines Into One

Drag and drop moving and copying

Copy as you stretch, move, rotate, or scale & create multiple leader arrows

Setting a system variable on the tool palette

Redefining a block without losing your insertion point

Breaking a line into two

Joining Two Lines Into One

Drag and drop moving and copying

Dealing with gaps

Temporarily override OSNAP, ORTHO, and other drafting settings

Substitute one block for another

Zoom to objects

Trim objects quickly

Close an arc to make a circle or ellipse; connect splines

Break objects quickly

Return to previous view in pan or zoom realtime, or in 3D Orbit

Change linetype spacing in three ways

Stretch a circle with grips

Rotate One Object to Match Another

Secret mtext options: Remove formatting, combine paragraphs, change case

Which font to use?

The many ways to import text

Use all of your selection options

Another Break Objects Quickly AutoLISP routine

Extend lines to make corners with chamfer

Write blocks to save them as separate files

Copy objects between drawings

Quickly select objects with Quick Select

AutoCAD Tutorial: Save and use layer states

AutoCAD tutorial: Replace one block with another block

Undo changes in Properties palette

Dimension in paper space

Create invisible supporting notes

Tutorial: Use fields for titleblock text

Place a dimension a fixed distance from an object

Create a dimension style on the fly

Customize extracted attribute headings

Formatting fractions

Changing the MText string to your login name

Creating fields that update automatically (for 2000-2004)

Printing a list of dimension styles

Printing a list of text styles

Using 3D orbit for one object

Converting 3D drawings into 2D drawings

Separating Solids

Convert text to Mtext and vice versa

Tutorial: Create attributes

Follow linear dimension with continued dimension

Precisely control the size of OLE text and objects

Tutorial: Automate annotation in AutoCAD 2008

Quickly format dimensions

Tutorial: Create an architectural dimension style

Tutorial: Draw a 3D threaded bolt

Tutorial: Create a visual style

Carve a solid with a surface

Tutorial: Create a custom visual style in AutoCAD 2007

Tutorial: Convert a 3D solid to a 3-view 2D drawing in model space

Transparently enter 3D Orbit in 2007

Convert a 3D solid to a 2D drawing with a hidden view

Create contours from elevation points

3D Tutorial: Draw a glass

Do Objects with Thickness Have Tops and Bottoms?

Troubleshooting problem drawings

Save layouts with layout templates

Putting an AutoCAD drawing in a PowerPoint presentation

Tutorial: Create a DWF file

Tutorial: eTransmit a drawing

Save plot settings to a layout

Display a named view in a viewport

Plot on a black & white printer

Control the export of WMF images

Tutorial: Create a plot style (color-dependent)

Getting the perfect color

Quickly Find Files in Support File Search Path

Switch between Imperial and metric measurements

Convert slide libraries/image tile menus and tablet menus to tool palettes

Creating Custom Toolbar Buttons

Changing the Multiple Options of AutoCAD Commands

Loading AutoLISP programs quickly

Select all instances of a block

Get lots of information about your drawing–all in one place

Find all named objects in a drawing

Organize files in Windows to mimic the Today file listing

Find where xrefs are hosted

Manage layers with LAYWALK

Tutorial: Filter the layer list

Make a layer current — for sure

Printing a List of Layers

Working faster with layers

Tutorial: Add a button to the ribbon in AutoCAD 2009

Record macros with the Action Recorder

AutoCAD Tutorial: Display a lost custom toolbar

How do I get all my AutoLISP routines to load themselves?

Display toolbars

Extract data from objects in 2008

Tutorial: Create a command alias (keyboard shortcut)

Tutorial: Create a custom workspace in AutoCAD 2006 and later

Create a shortcut to a template and workspace

Tutorial: Create a custom simple linetype

Add commands to tool palettes from the CUI dialog box in AutoCAD 2007

Tutorial: Create a custom command

Create a custom keyboard shortcut

Search for templates in multiple folders

Create a custom toolbar in AutoCAD 2006 or later

Options you should change

See current settings on the status bar

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