CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
AutoCAD viewports are extremely helpful. You can view many area of your drawings in model space, and you can arrange your drawings quickly in layout. Here are some tips that you may have overlooked. Tip #1: Using Viewport Configurations Do you need to create multiple viewports at once? You can do it by creating it [...]
Last week, I published a post about AutoCAD WS mobile, a mobile application that you can use to view your DWGs on your mobile device. It is interesting to see mobile application like that, but we all know CAD drawings always created on desktop applications. Mobile applications may be able to review drawings and create [...]
If you have followed CAD Notes posts since early this year, you may already read about project Butterfly. Now the project is gone, come out from beta, and released as final application: AutoCAD WS and AutoCAD WS Mobile. There are some buzz about it last week, but in case you missed it or wondering what [...]
If you need to select all horizontal or vertical lines within an AutoCAD drawing, this could be a tedious work. It is not easy to select them in quite a complex drawing. But you can do it easily if you use QSELECT. Orhan Toker also cover about QSELECT with some more explanation. So how to [...]
Do you like AutoCAD dynamic block? If you use stretch action, then the attributes will not stay at block center. Use this tip to keep at at center.
Do you need to add multiple hyperlinks in AutoCAD block? You can do it by using block attributes. See the tutorial here.
This month, I’ve seen several posts about DraftSight, a free CAD software that support DWG files. I’ve tried it in few minutes, and it’s actually quite nice. For a freeware, it is a good software. For home and students, we can use it as alternative for AutoCAD. It looks like it, and feels like it. [...]
Read and discuss several possibilities to secure your AutoCAD drawings data. From password protected files to online sharing.
