CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
Have you ever want to show the same attribute values in your AutoCAD drawing? Let us take an example: you have several sheets in your drawing, and you want to show the same project name, number, client name, or other common information. This can be done easily in Sheet Set manager if you use layout. [...]
Have you ever find your AutoCAD doesn’t feels right when you select objects? You select them, press delete, move, mirror, etc the objects still stay. You select the objects, the layer toolbar still showing current layer. And after you select objects, the properties palette may still showing no selection. I see this problem occurs many [...]
After I provided AutoLISP program to label coordinate automatically, I had some questions if it can show N, E, and elevation instead of just the coordinate text. So I made minor adjustment to the code. This automatic labeling will create three lines of texts instead of just one line of xyz coordinate. You can open [...]
I have posted an AutoCAD tip how you can create your own label coordinate in AutoCAD using block attributes. It is nice that you can create your own block, create your own block shapes, and customize it to look anything you want to. But there is a limitation. It will only recognize the point position [...]
When you open AutoCAD layout, do you ever found your dimensions (or other annotation objects) are missing in some viewports? I saw many threads about this issue like this one in AutoCAD forum. When you examine the AutoCAD drawing in model space, and in some viewports, everything looks OK. But somehow you can’t see them [...]
Do you use and love AutoCAD dynamic input? If you use it, try to select a line (or any kind of object you want), and click the blue grip. You will see several dimension fields in your screen like below. The fields give you control to modify the segment length or angle quickly. Forget LENGTHEN command, [...]
Do you need to convert from metric to imperial or vice versa? Read how you can convert inch to mm or other units quickly!
Have hundreds of layers in your drawings? Use layer filter to simplify it, and quickly change properties of layers in a group!
