February 5, 2012

Preparing Your AutoCAD Template

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Using template will increase your productivity. We are not just talking about AutoCAD, but also Revit, Inventor, and any other software like Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. In this tutorial, we are going to prepare our template, save it, and a little configuration to tell AutoCAD to use it each time we create a new file. [...]

Creating Your Own AutoCAD Palette

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Autodesk has introduced palette in AutoCAD since a long time ago. If I’m not mistaken, since AutoCAD 2005. It is a very easy way to manage (and create) your reusable content. We will place every dynamic blocks we’ve created there in this step. Later, we will use palette to access the reusable contents when we [...]

Dynamic Block Tutorial #4: Adding More Actions

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Previously, we have created door as AutoCAD dynamic block. We add some actions so this door can be resized to an available width in our list. But it’s not perfect yet. At least not for our purpose. In this AutoCAD tutorial, we are going to add more actions so this door can be flipped, and [...]

Dynamic Block Tutorial #3: Door

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This is the last object we are going to create using AutoCAD dynamic block. We are going to create a door. Basically it’s not that different with what we did with dynamic block before. But this time, we are going to learn about action properties in dynamic block. We are going to use wipeout as well. [...]

Dynamic Block Tutorial #2: Creating Column

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Let’s continue our AutoCAD dynamic block tutorial. We have created a basic dynamic block tutorial by adding one stretch action to our wall block. We will discuss further about parameter properties in this post. Now let’s talk about what we want to achieve. We want one block that contain several column size. But column size [...]

Dynamic Block Tutorial #1: Creating Wall

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Dynamic block feature has opened many possibilities to enhance your AutoCAD libraries and your workflow. You can manage less objects in your library, and you can automate some process with it. In this first AutoCAD dynamic block tutorial, we will learn how to create an object with adjustable length. Many practices can use this process, [...]