I found this thread this morning in CADTutor Forum. I found it’s interesting and trying to figure how it can work. This is how I do it. The problem is, Manish wants to extract coordinates from 3 points inside a block, using AutoCAD data extraction. If we want to report one point, it would be [...]

We created a door using stretch action in dynamic block tutorial. It was a good practice, but can be better. Stretching them might not be the best option. Sometimes we want the door at specific sizes. Providing the users a list would be better. We can use lookup table. Let’s open the door in that [...]

I tried to find about this in AutoCAD documentation, and can’t find any. Not even in new features workshop. Too bad, because I kind of like it. This feature is introduced in AutoCAD 2010. So what’s the contextual ribbon do? Remember when we create/edit a table then we will see the floating toolbar above the [...]

We have discuss about using Quick Select before. QSELECT is very useful if you just use it occasionally and not many properties to FILTER. There is one more utility that we can use, very powerful even it’s not as pretty as QSELECT. FILTER tool may be not popular because there’s no button/icon to activate it. [...]

I know there are a lot of cons against AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) after they finally implement ribbon for tools navigation. Especially for old school users. They feel like they have to start all over again to be familiar with this new interface. And there are complaints that using ribbon is taking a lot [...]

I had this question several times: can we automatically label our coordinate in AutoCAD? If you are Civil3D user, then you most likely will suggest them to use C3D. But can AutoCAD actually do it? YES! I saw many people use AutoLISP to do that task. It works great. But sometimes you may want to [...]

I have written about several ways you can use to select objects in AutoCAD (10 actually). Well, there’s more. Sometimes we can’t select only those visible in AutoCAD drawing space. When they are all get to crowded, we need to filter out our selection based on their properties. Yes, we can do it using filter. [...]