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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.

Augi Forums OOPS!!!

Posted on December 11, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have ever used google or yahoo to look for solutions for your AutoCAD needs, you have most likely been referred to the AUGI.com forums. When you do a search and see an augi forum link, don’t bother with … Continue reading →

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Add Selected

Posted on December 9, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have used Revit or AutoCAD Architecture, you may know of the “Add Selected” command. Well, in AutoCAD 2011 we get this awesome command. What’s so special about it? Especially for the lazy drafter or if you’ve ever received … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Modifying, New in 2011, TIPS | 1 Comment

Copy with Base-Point

Posted on December 9, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

have you ever needed to copy an object from drawing to drawing but were annoyed with not being able to specify a basepoint? Well you probably used CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste, right? Try using CTRL+SHIFT+C to copy. … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Modifying, TIPS | 6 Comments

From REVIT to PDF

Posted on December 9, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

I know… I know… This aint AutoCAD, but it is something that people at school ask about a lot and it is a really needed task that is missing from REVIT. So bare with me as I show you this … Continue reading →

Posted in Revit, TIPS | 3 Comments

MATCHPROP

Posted on December 3, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

I think that the tool MATCHPROP is one that is easily forgotten or goes unnoticed. Yet is will save you a ton time. It works like the “format painter” that is found in Microsoft Office products for those who know … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Modifying, TIPS | 1 Comment

More SNAP over-rides

Posted on December 3, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Ever want to snap to just an endpoint but you have too many osnap settings on? You could just turn some of them off, then snap to what you want, but then you would have to turn back on the … Continue reading →

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TSPACEINVADERS

Posted on December 3, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

This is a cool tip to find and select any text in your drawing that has an object that is overlapping or “invading” it. This command will create a selection set of the text objects that have geometry and even … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, TIPS | 4 Comments

Auto-Align your Blocks

Posted on December 2, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Some people live in a square world, but for us who live in a drafting world, there are angles galore. Luckily for us, when we bring blocks into our angled drafting environment, we no longer have to use the ROTATE … Continue reading →

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MTJIGSTRING

Posted on November 28, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Okay, that heading was not very descriptive, but I know that you’ll enjoy this tip. When you place MTEXT, by default, it is blank. And by “blank”, I mean that there is no preview of text so that you can … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, Settling In | 2 Comments

Angular Dimensions larger than 180 degrees

Posted on November 28, 2010 by AutoCAD Tips

Believe or not, you may need to make an angular dimension that is larger than 180 degrees at some time. But if you use the angular dimension tool and then select the two lines that you want to reference, it … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Dimensions | 3 Comments