Category Archives: BASICS

Intro To Coordinates

Posted on August 24, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Note: I must first apologize for the lack of posts lately. I have started teaching AutoCAD for a local community college at night and it has been very demanding of my time. Teaching this class should help me focus on … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Settling In, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Temporary OSNAP Overrides (Including 3D Osnaps)

Posted on August 2, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

When you are in the middle of a command and you need to snap to something that is not currently set in your running OSNAPs, you can use a temporary OSNAP override that will let you snap to the desired … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D Intro, BASICS, New in 2011, Settling In, TIPS | 1 Comment

Intro to Isometric Drawing

Posted on July 27, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD has an isometric drawing mode that lets you drawing 3D-looking objects in 2D just like when you draw 3D objects on a flat sheet of paper. This means that even AutoCAD LT can draw 3D representations. Q) What is … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Isometrics | 23 Comments

Intro to Polar Tracking

Posted on July 24, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

I might have the opportunity to teach AutoCAD at a local community college this coming fall so I have been focusing on the basics. Polar Tracking is a great way to define a specific angle while drafting. This is probably … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Customization | 1 Comment

Lock the Position of your Toolbars and Palettes

Posted on June 4, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Once you get your toolbars and palettes in place, you’ll want them to stay put right? Here is a way to lock there position. Below is an extreme example with every toolbar placed on the screen and 2 palettes are … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Customization, Settling In, TIPS, Tool Palletes, Workspaces | 19 Comments

XREF Status Bar Button

Posted on June 4, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you open drawings and want to know if there are any XREFs in the drawing, you do not need to open the XREF manager. Simply look at the bottom right corner of the screen in the status bar. If … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Settling In, TIPS, XREFs | 1 Comment

Intro to Chamfer

Posted on June 2, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is an overview of the CHAMFER command. This command will create a beveled edge between two selected lines. It can be defined by specifying a distance away from the intersection of the selected lines. It can also be defined … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Modifying | 3 Comments

Using Your Mouse to Move, Copy or Clear a Selection Set

Posted on May 24, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

I have posted about this topic before but I thought that it could be presented more clearly. You can use your windows mouse to move, copy, copy as a block, clear a selection set and escape/cancel from a command all … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, TIPS | 1 Comment

Create Rotated or Aligned MTEXT

Posted on April 12, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you’ve gone to school for CAD or ever dealt with a good manager then you’ve undoubtedly heard them remind the CAD users to “Look at your options in the command line…” Today’s tip is a good example of this. If you … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Text, TIPS | 3 Comments

XCLIPFRAME

Posted on April 11, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here are the options (system variables) for how your XCLIP frame is shown and/or printed. The variable is XCLIPFRAME <enter> and the default setting is <2>

Posted in BASICS, Customization, Manage, Modifying, XREFs | 3 Comments