CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
If you join some discussion group, you may see many problems are simply because the AutoCAD system variable has changed. The most common variables that cause confusion are FILEDIA and PICKFIRST. There are some more, but those two are very common. Why this happens? It can happen when you use an AutoCAD command (mostly on [...]
Have you worked on a quite large drawing, and need to move from one area to another? Or maybe you need to often rotate your viewport because your design is not parallel to your display? And you probably have a hard time working on a very large project, and need to zoom-in zoom-out only to [...]
A compilation of AutoCAD tips. Read all 100 of them to increase your productivity!
I found this question has been asked twice in CADTutor forum in the past two days. How can we apply new dimension styles across our drawings? You may already created some (or many) drawings with different styles. Now you want to apply the same style to all your drawings. How we can do that? Although [...]
Having a hard time controlling linetype scale in your AutoCAD drawings? Use these three steps to do it easily.
I get this question about reference file: what is the advantage of using XREF as overlay and using XREF as attachment? The explanation in AutoCAD documentation should be clear enough. However, if you still feel it’s not clear enough, let us discuss it here. The difference between attached and overlaid reference only can be seen [...]
This question appears in our local forum. Is there any way we can create an arc by defining the arc length? There is no direct way to do this. There are some methods that seem to allow you define length. For example start, center, length. But this is defining the chord length, not the arch [...]
There are many enhancements and changes in the new features of AutoCAD and Revit. One of them is the online help documentation. By default, the 2011 product line will attempt to open help file from Autodesk server. Wow! I can’t imagine how many users are using it at a time! The reason why Autodesk do [...]
