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.
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!
If you work with AutoCAD layout, these 11 killer macros will help you. For easier access, we put all the macros in tool palettes. A must read if you want to work with viewport faster! Another great post by Paul Munford.
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?
If you can’t disable uniform scale option when inserting AutoCAD block, this is the guide how you can fix it.
If you have problem with AutoCAD shared contents because of slow network connection, try this tip: set them as offline files!
Do you know that there are more things AutoCAD UNDO command can do for you, than just one step back? See all the options it has here!
