AutoCAD Tutorial: Design Center: Copy Styles, Linetypes, Blocks from one drawing to another

Brandon

woo, another new video tutorial! I’m really liking making these videos lately and I really hope they’ve helped and you’ve all enjoyed them. I’ve even got another one coming this week that will be the start of a new series of Tech and Gadgets for your office and desk!

But lets get started with todays video, in it I go over a cool and very under used feature in AutoCAD, Design Center. I will show you how to use the design center in autocad to quickly and easily copy or move linetypes, layers, dimension styles, blocks, layouts and more from one drawing to another drawing! It really is a cool tool and can save you tons of time when starting a new drawing or simply updating an existing one.
This tool in autocad can be a huge time saver when you need to import title blocks, layouts or anything from an old drawing or a template drawing into a drawing that your working on. You can even use it when you need a block that was made or used in an old drawing, but you would like copy them between drawings.

I hate to plug my newly released book again… cough The AutoCAD Productivity Handbook  cough…  but it covers ways to save time and be more productive in your day to day drafting and using design center more in your workflow could definitely be one of those tips!

Let’s get into the video, check it out now and let me know what you think:

As always, thank you so much for watching, and don’t forget to let me know what tip, trick or tutorial you’d like to see next in the comments or if you’re having issues with your line types.
Cheers and happy drafting!

Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, I recent wrote and AutoCAD book: The AutoCAD Productivity Handbook
check it out and let me know what you think!

PS. Thank you again for visiting and don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter to keep up to date on new CAD news, tutorials and tricks: Subscribe here

The following two tabs change content below.
My Twitter profileMy Facebook profileMy YouTube channel

Brandon

Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities. If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/

Related posts:

  1. AutoCAD Tutorial: Search & Group Layers – How to Find and Organize Your Layers Quickly – 2 Minute Tuesday
  2. AutoCAD Tutorial: How to use the adcenter (Design Center) Command
  3. AutoCAD Tip & Trick: Open Drawing Folder and Copy File Path Automatically – 2 Minute Tuesday!
  4. AutoCAD Tutorial: Copy or Insert Objects from Xrefs – 2 Minute Tuesday!