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Tag: autocad tips and tricks
AutoCAD Read Only Error: What’s the Problem?
As a computer person that likes to constantly tinker and modify things I find myself running into error boxes and warnings more than the average user. When it comes to AutoCAD though there is one error message I’m sure most of you have run in to during your drafting career, […]
Productivity Tip: Organizing Drawing Files and Folders
How do you organize your project folders and drawing files? Use these tips and tricks to save time and sanity: Do you have a method to your madness? I know I didn’t for a few years, well that’s not exactly true. I had a system that I thought worked really […]
How to Move objects from Paperspace to Model Space or Vise-Versa
In this autocad tutorial video I’ll show you how to move an object or text object from layout space to the model space, or in other words from one tab to another using chspace, the change space command. This command is really under used and can be very useful if […]
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: Xref editing and layers on-off
In todays video I go over how to turn off specific layers in an xref (external reference) without having to ever open the external drawing.This trick can come in handy when you’re working with big xrefs that have a lot of layers. You can easily just turn off the ones […]
AutoCAD 3D Tutorial: How to use the Sweep Command
I hate sweeping…I have two dogs and it seems like I spend half my life sweeping up hair around the house. If only it was actually as easy as a simple command I could type in on my iphone and it would be done. hah I can wish can’t I? […]
AutoCAD 3D Tutorial: How to use the Revolve Command
In todays video I go over one of many ways to use the revolve command in the vanilla version of autocads 3d workspace. I decided to start with the revolve command because it is one of the most useful and yet useful commands when you are starting out with 3d […]