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 [...]
If you already use computers for quite a long time, then you must know how the software changing. Let us see DOS as the first OS I know. Then we get Windows 3.1 on DOS. Now DOS prompt is still there. We don’t see it when we start Windows. It’s only as a console that [...]
Imagine this: you are an interior designer, and one day your client show you a brochure or a catalog. “I want my front door like this. Can you put it in your model and render it for me? And make the rendered model nice.” What do you think if your client want a door like [...]
We have discussed how we can apply AutoCAD rendering materials from available Autodesk library. The next problem is, what if what we want doesn’t exist in the library? We have to create our own! But don’t worry. It is not that difficult. It does need several trials and errors, and rendering it. The nice thing [...]
I had several interesting responses regarding AutoCAD is loosing it’s accuracy article. The last discussion was with Jon, is kind of make me think that I should update this article. Thank you for your info Jon. You can read Jon response in comment section of 100 AutoCAD tips I compiled. Let us forget the hatches [...]
In this article, we are going to attach materials to our model. We are going to skip the artificial lighting and save it for later. However, we already have sunlight for now and it’s enough to create a photorealistic rendering. You probably now can’t wait to see how your model looks like when we render [...]
Want to create photorealistic rendering in AutoCAD? Learn how you can set sun light easily here.
