CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
If you already familiar with 3D modeling in AutoCAD, then you must be familiar with controlling coordinate system. The coordinate system you define will be a UCS (User Coordinate System). In 2D, there are many things that you can do by controlling coordinate system. In this article, we are going to discuss how to control [...]
You have learned how to precisely specify points by their coordinates. However, sometimes we need other methods to define points. There are some drafting tools that we can use to help us in specifying points. AutoCAD Object Snap Object snap is a tool that you can use to refer for a location from existing objects. [...]
There’s not much in this tutorial. However, I consider this is very important part for the rest of the tutorial. I found most AutoCAD users never aware about using template. And worse, sometimes they just open existing drawing, erase the drawings, and use the existing styles and objects. Avoid this, since this will make your [...]
The next first thing you should get familiar when first time learning AutoCAD is using navigation tools. You will want to see your drawing closer, move it to see another part of your drawing, see your model from different angle (for 3D), etc. There are several methods to do it in AutoCAD: Using Mouse This [...]
This is the first article of my AutoCAD tutorial series. Since I have Revit and MicroStation tutorial for beginners, then I think, why not writing AutoCAD for beginners too? I know that there are many resources for learning AutoCAD, but I hope this is still useful. I have posted 12 steps you need to get [...]
