CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I have someone asking me why his dynamic block is not working as he expected. He created his own coordinate label based on this tutorial on CAD Notes. Only the northing coordinate label move, and it move strangely unpredictable. As you probably have the same problem, I decided to publish it here. First I suspected [...]
I received an email from Asaf Sagi, Autodesk product manager in Project Butterfly: http://butterfly.autodesk.com. He invited me to give this project a try. So I did. I am amazed with what this project can do. First, I’m thinking this is similar to Google docs. In some ways it has the same concept. We can upload [...]
Just want to share with you. I read in Shaan Hurley’s blog about the best AutoCAD features he picked from AutoCAD 2007 to 2010. You can download it as a pdf document. This is pretty much what I’m trying to share in this site. I write how you can be productive with AutoCAD, and not [...]
How do we select files in Windows Explorer? We click to select a single file, but when we click another file the previous selection will be removed. We have to hold [SHIFT] to keep our previous selection while clicking other files. This is very common selection behavior for most Windows applications. In AutoCAD, when we [...]
We have created an AutoCAD column block by using two methods: using dynamic block actions and using parametric features (geometric and dimensional constraint). So what’s the difference? Why we should use parametric instead of dynamic block actions? It looks like using action is easier than using parametric design. Dynamic block actions are basically AutoCAD tools [...]
