It’s been a while since I’ve posted an AutoCAD Tip & Trick post so I put together a list of AutoCAD commands you never knew you needed. The list contains commands that will save you time and make your life easier as drafter. Don’t forget to leave a comment at […]
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Quit Wasting Time with these 5 Productivity Tricks
5 Productivity Tips that will save you hours: 1. Always Use Both Hands: By using both of your hands as input devices you allow yourself to focus on two separate tasks. Using your left hand as your keyboard input so much time can be saved by entering commands via […]
5 Time Saving Shortcuts in Autocad: Tips & Tricks
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. […]
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 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 […]
Make an AutoCAD File Smaller: 6 Tips You Need to Know
Recently I ran into an issue when trying to send some CAD files (.dwg) to a client of mine, his email would only accept up to a 10mb file. While most of the time I would just ftp, or host it for him to download, this particular client is not […]