Everyone has a few go to autocad commandline shortcuts that they couldn’t live without. I got to thinking today about exactly which ones are the most important in my day to day tasks. Here is the list I came up with along with a description of what each one does. […]
8 AutoCAD Sites and Resources I Read and Why You’ll Want to as Well
I’ve been meaning to write a round-up post of a few of my favorite AutoCAD Sites and Resources for a while now but seem to have suffered from a bad case of procrastination for far too long. So when I was making a list of posts I want to write […]
AutoCAD Title Block: How To Insert and Scale to Fit a Layout
In todays video I go over how to insert the free 8.5×11 title block you get when subscribing to my newslettr into a layout even if the units and or scales are different. By using the scale and reference length commands you can easily start using the free title block […]
AutoCAD Tutorial: How to Insert a Title Block
So I’ve finally gotten around to putting together a quick and easy to follow tutorial in order to insert a Title Block into your drawings layout space. I feel like I have somehow been missing this as a video tutorial before now and I don’t know why… I’ve been giving […]
AutoCAD Tutorial: How to Load a Lisp or Application
In todays video I go over how to load a lisp (autolisp .lsp or .vlx) program into autocad. This will also work for any other cad application like a .vlx or .lsp files as well. After using the appload command to bring up the application load panel I load the […]
AutoCAD Tutorial: How to use the adcenter (Design Center) Command
In this video I go over how to use the design center toolbox and command (simply types “adcenter” and hit enter to start the command) to easily copy or transfer blocks, linetypes, fonts, layouts and more from one drawing into drawing (.dwg) quickly and very simply. This can be extremely […]
Autocad Perfomance: Slow Start up Help
Earlier this month I got an email from the company IT department asking if I had any tips or things to look for to help speed up autocad start up speed, and overall performance. Apparently a fellow cad user in another office was having slow start-up and choppy performance, he […]
AutoCAD Tutorial: How to Join Lines using the pedit command
If you’ve ever needed to combine your individual line work in autocad then chances are you used or at least needed to use the ‘pedit’ command. The process is fairly simple. Type in ‘pedit’ Hit enter Use ‘m’ enter to select multiple line segments Select all the lines you would […]
An AutoCAD Cheat Sheet and Being More Productive
If you’ve been a subscriber to my newsletter (you can subscribe in the sidebar;) ) for a little while you already know how much I like productivity tips and tricks. I try to include one in each of my newsletters. When it comes to drafting and especially freelance cad work […]
How to Insert and Georeference a Google Earth Image in AutoCAD
Update: I reacently made a new updated version of this video with a quicker and easier way to import a georeferenced Google Earth Image into AutoCAD. Check out the new method and video here: Insert & Georeference a Google Earth Image – Plex.Earth Update Today I was asked how to quickly bring […]