I saw in Twitter that a lot of people having trouble learning AutoCAD. I’m not sure what is the problem, but I think learning AutoCAD is not too difficult. In this post, I will try to write a simple guide for you who are learning AutoCAD. No, this is not a tutorial, but it’s about [...]
Why I can’t Use Formula in xls Created by Data Extraction?
July 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
Have you used AutoCAD data extraction? This is a very handy tool to create a report about any data from your AutoCAD drawing. Some of my colleague choose to extract the drawings information to excel instead of directly to his drawing. They want to modify the values further, and using excel is easier (and faster). But [...]
How to: Set a previous file version as default
July 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Do you have to work with different version of AutoCAD in your company? Or may be you mostly have to send your DWG files in older file format? You can set to save the files to older AutoCAD, by default. You can access it in option dialog box, in open and save tab. Alternatively, in [...]
10+ Ways to Use AutoCAD Object Selection
July 10, 2009 By 12 Comments
Picking drawing elements in AutoCAD can be frustrating, especially if you have a complex drawing. You can see (most of) AutoCAD tools options on command line or dynamic input. Like this polyline tool for example. You can see it’s options: arc, halfwidth, length, undo, and width. But do you see the options for selecting drawing [...]
How to: Cycle AutoCAD commands
July 8, 2009 By 1 Comment
As a new AutoCAD user, you might found that AutoCAD has a lot of commands. Not to mention changing the system variables. Some (well, many…) of them have to be activated from command line. It is very difficult to remember all of them. Even for experienced users. Don’t worry, you can just type some characters, [...]
Use BURST for block with attributes instead of Explode!
July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Did you ever explode AutoCAD block that contains attributes? We use the command to convert your AutoCAD objects to it’s basic component. We can convert it back to lines, text, and other basic objects. But after exploding, you will see the attributes will loose all the data you have given. It will show the attribute [...]
Creating Angular Dimension Larger than 180 deg
July 2, 2009 By 5 Comments
Can we create angular dimension larger than 180 degrees in AutoCAD? Well if you see the recorded animation below, you can’t do that by selecting lines, obviously. But you can create it in AutoCAD using dimangular by selecting line’s vertex. From your AutoCAD ribbon (or toolbar) activate the tool. OR type DIMANGULAR then [enter], you [...]
AutoCAD Solid History
July 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
Remember in the old days, when we already union or subtract two 3D solid objects, then we no longer able to edit them? Oh yeah, you can create another solid to modify it, then union or subtract them again. Sometimes when the objects become too complex, the only thing you can do is start again [...]
