CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
The idea of this post came up after I saw this thread in CAD Tutor: How to zoom to a point quickly?. It makes me think is there any easy way to do it in vanilla AutoCAD without programming knowledge? Then I remember action recorder. I decided to give it a try. If you are not [...]
Do you use AutoCAD ribbon? One annoying thing about AutoCAD ribbon for me is when I have to work with low screen resolution. I do set it quite high on my computer and feel comfortable with it. However, when I have to do presentations, sometimes I have to set my screen resolution to 1024×768 pixels, [...]
Receiving AutoCAD files with XREF can give us headache. You probably already familiar with this warning: It means that AutoCAD can’t find the reference files, because the file location on your computer is not the same with the sender’s computer. If you open the file references palette, you will see warning that the files are [...]
AutoCAD layout brings many benefits. It simplify, represent, manage and automate your drawings. See 10 reasons why you should use it here.
Sometimes we need to hide some parts of our AutoCAD blocks in our drawing. We don’t want to explode and trim it, because it will make the block definition removed. If we need to modify or change the block, then the exploded block will not be updated. In some drawings, we can use wipeout. But [...]
Update: Autodesk 2012 products are coming. If you are looking for AOTG for 2012 products, please find it here. I have posted a review about AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 – No Experience Required. I’ve been wondering what are the other Autodesk official training guide (AOTG), so I did some searches. I found some [...]
Last Friday, you probably already heard about Autodesk finally launched AutoCAD for Mac. If you see in the product page, you will see the download link is now available. Honestly I don’t really care about the Mac version release, since I don’t use Mac. I know there were big demand to Autodesk to release it. [...]
I saw Shaan Hurley (@mrcadman) asked his followers, whether they already aware that: using page setup allows them to publish to different plotter. I know that we can do that, but then I’m thinking: can we send the AutoCAD sheets to different printers/plotters at once? After playing with it for a while I found that [...]
