CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
If you often need to create construction or reference objects in AutoCAD, have you tried XLINE, RAY, and point? XLINE and RAY are very useful to create construction lines quickly. And points, can help you to snap to a point quickly in crowded drawings!
Do you find your system variables change often? Do you have to set it back to default regularly? Why not set them by default in acaddoc.lsp? Read how you can set system variables in acaddoc.lsp. And see some common variables listed here.
AutoCAD has parametric design capabilities since AutoCAD 2010. Have you used it? I don’t use it much because it doesn’t fit my workflow. I only use it for blocks, which work fine for me. However, you may have different story. Share your experience here!
Not familiar with parametric design yet? Beginners can check tutorial videos from AutoCAD Exchange, by Robert Green. Don’t forget to check it!
Looking for resources to learn AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT Sheet Set? Kate Morrical has tutorial videos!
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Have you tried the tip to create 11 killer macros for viewports? If you’re too busy to follow all the steps, you can just download it here!
AutoCAD Exchange team has approved our AutoCAD Block Best Practices e-book. If you prefer to purchase our own AutoCAD Block Best Practices from AutoCAD Exchange app, now its listed there!
Express tools are great to help us vanilla AutoCAD users. But do you know there are hidden tools, that we only can use them by typing the command in command line?
