CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
Are you familiar with DWF (design web format)? Or PDF (portable document format)? Both are vector document that are used for document sharing via email or website. These days, both of them become a familiar file format we receive, because people don’t want us to get their original DWG. Or we don’t want people to [...]
Have you used AutoCAD data extraction? This is a very handy tool to create a report about any data from your AutoCAD drawing. Some of my colleague choose to extract the drawings information to excel instead of directly to his drawing. They want to modify the values further, and using excel is easier (and faster). But [...]
Do you have to work with different version of AutoCAD in your company? Or may be you mostly have to send your DWG files in older file format? You can set to save the files to older AutoCAD, by default. You can access it in option dialog box, in open and save tab. Alternatively, in [...]
Remember the old days, when we can add AutoCAD landscape objects like trees, cars, and people in our AutoCAD model? Since Autodesk decided to change the rendering engine from scanlines to mentalray, this feature is no longer available. But in the release comparison matrix, there is ‘entourage’ available. So where is it? It’s a separate [...]
Picking drawing elements in AutoCAD can be frustrating, especially if you have a complex drawing. You can see (most of) AutoCAD tools options on command line or dynamic input. Like this polyline tool for example. You can see it’s options: arc, halfwidth, length, undo, and width. But do you see the options for selecting drawing [...]
As a new AutoCAD user, you might found that AutoCAD has a lot of commands. Not to mention changing the system variables. Some (well, many…) of them have to be activated from command line. It is very difficult to remember all of them. Even for experienced users. Don’t worry, you can just type some characters, [...]
Did you ever explode AutoCAD block that contains attributes? We use the command to convert your AutoCAD objects to it’s basic component. We can convert it back to lines, text, and other basic objects. But after exploding, you will see the attributes will loose all the data you have given. It will show the attribute [...]
