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About AutoCAD Tips

This blog serves as a knowledge base for myself (and anyone else) so that I can reference tips & tricks that I have learned and also refer others to it as well. I hope that this blog helps you learn at least one tip to make your drafting/design experience better.

AutoLISP: Block Count With A Table

Posted on March 9, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

As I promised in an earlier post, here is the block counter that places a table with a preview of the block within the table. An additional feature is to specify the text size of the text within the table … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, Blocks, TIPS | 38 Comments

AUTOLISP: Select By Layer

Posted on March 8, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is an AutoLISP routine that I use a lot. It is a quick way to select an object and then make a selection set of everything on that layer. I know that there is the new command in AutoCAD … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, TIPS | 1 Comment

OVERKILL Is Your Friend

Posted on March 6, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

It’s been a little over a week since I last posted. My wife and I had our second child and I picked up some contract drafting work so I’ve been a little busy. But doing the contract work is helping … Continue reading →

Posted in Express Tools, Settling In, TIPS | 6 Comments

Easy Way To Speed Up Your Computer

Posted on February 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

With a simple setting change, my computer is easily twice as fast. AutoCAD starts up about 3 times faster and when working on projects in AutoCAD, Revit & SketchUP I have noticed an amazing difference. To do this, you need … Continue reading →

Posted in TIPS | 19 Comments

Rotating your UCS

Posted on February 22, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Thanks to LIZ for this tip. Hope it helps… If you’ve had a drawing that isn’t completely based around 90 degree angles, this tip will halp you from tilting your head and straining you neck… The drawing shown above has … Continue reading →

Posted in TIPS | 44 Comments

Line-Type Scale

Posted on February 19, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

When you are in Model-Space, and place a dashed line, you may not see the dashed line. In order to see the dashed line, you need to adjust the LTSCALE (Line Type Scale). The scale factor that you set when … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Layout, TIPS | 14 Comments

Tab thru Layout Tabs

Posted on February 19, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s a quick tip: Hold the CTRL button and then hit the PAGE-UP or PAGE-DOWN buttons to “tab” through your layout tabs.

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Copy, Re-order, and Rename Layout tabs

Posted on February 18, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a quick tip. After you have your layout setup the way that you want, as in the previous post, you can simply copy the layout tab and modify the viewport and text accordingly. This will save you a … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Layout, Text | 8 Comments

Adding a new Layout

Posted on February 16, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Creating layouts and viewports have been around for a while; Viewports were introduced in Release 12 (1992), even though they functioned differently than what is commonly used as viewports today… The Layout function was introduced in Release 2000 (1999). So they … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Layout, TIPS | 12 Comments

Block Count

Posted on February 7, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s a way to count the blocks in your drawing. Use the command BCOUNT and you can individually select blocks, use a window selection or type ALL at the command line and every block in your drawing will be selected. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blocks, TIPS | 18 Comments