Category Archives: New in 2012

Express Tools for AutoCAD Architecture 2012

Posted on April 26, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Inspired by a comment from Daniel in the same post for AutoCAD Arch 2011, I thought that I should walk through the complete steps as they seem to work more permanently than the simple tip that I initially suggested. Once … Continue reading →

Posted in Customization, Express Tools, New in 2012, TIPS | 28 Comments

New AUTO-APPEND in 2012

Posted on March 25, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is something that I found cool but annoying with AutoCAD 2012. Here’s the situation, if you forgot the name of a command, the old way (which still works) of finding this command is to enter the first letter or … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, New in 2012, Settling In, TIPS | 2 Comments

Fillet & Chamfer preview in AutoCAD 2012

Posted on March 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

Here’s another cool feature in AutoCAD 2012. Both the FILLET & CHAMFER command show a preview of how the fillet or chamfer will look before you pick the second object and finish the command. This allows you to preview and … Continue reading →

Posted in BASICS, Modifying, New in 2012, TIPS | 17 Comments

OVERKILL in 2012

Posted on March 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

I recently made a post about the great command called OVERKILL or “Delete Duplicates.” Apparently Autodesk noticed how useful this tool is as well (maybe even from reading this blog site :)… OVERKILL was an “Express Tool” which means that … Continue reading →

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AutoCAD 2012 Copy Tool with Array option

Posted on March 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

As seen in the previous tip, in AutoCAD 2012 gives you the option to array objects while in the middle of the COPY command. I previously showed how to array a specific number of copies with the “fit” option. Now … Continue reading →

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AutoCAD 2012 Copy with ARRAY [fit]

Posted on March 24, 2011 by AutoCAD Tips

So Autodesk released AutoCAD 2012 yesterday (March 22). While I think that every release of AutoCAD has its strengths and weaknesses, I think that this year’s release (to be honest) is just another release with some minor tweaks. One major … Continue reading →

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