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Community Command for AutoCAD

March 16th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Community Command for AutoCAD

I know there are some major CAD blogs already cover this. However, just in case you miss it I also post about it here. I consider this is very interesting. AutoCAD has many tools that you can use to achieve the same thing. That is exactly why I had the AutoCAD tips competition at the first place. Sharing your tips, and the others will compare and suggest the other work around. Unfortunately can’t attract many people … Read entire article »

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25 Readers Most Favorite AutoCAD Tips

March 15th, 2010 | Add a Comment

25 Readers Most Favorite AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD Tips competition has reach the deadline. There are many interesting submission, and as promised, the winners will be announce next Monday. These is the list of tips submitted. However, I do feel that the contestant are not trying to submit their favorite post, but their best tips they can write. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes many people are not willing to submit their tips, and feel it’s too hard. You actually can … Read entire article »

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Exercise: Coordinate Input and Drafting Tools

March 8th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Exercise: Coordinate Input and Drafting Tools

You have learned how to provide coordinate input in AutoCAD, and using AutoCAD drafting tools. Let us do a little exercise before continue to the next topic. We are going to use some AutoCAD drawing tools and drafting tools. Using the Metric Template We are using metric template for this AutoCAD tutorial. If you haven’t set the default template to metric, create a new file from AutoCAD menu: new>drawing. Do not click the new file button on … Read entire article »

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Can I Render Wireframe Image from AutoCAD?

February 19th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Can I Render Wireframe Image from AutoCAD?

This is an inquiry in CADtutor forum: Can I render wireframe image from AutoCAD? I’m not sure why we ever need wireframe image. But the answer is no. However, we can get the required image by using plot command. In the shade plot option, we can set the shade mode to wireframe. This allows us to plot to any type of visualization, including rendering images and visualization styles. Anything you can set in visual styles, you can have … Read entire article »

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