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AutoCAD 2020 - Adding a Custom Hatch Pattern
By James Philip
I was asked to create a Flemish bond hatch pattern. My immediate response was that if you search the ...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Quick Select Command
By James Philip
The Quick Select command is another useful tool when correcting drawing anomalies as it allows object...
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AutoCAD - Streamlining the Display
By Martin Phelps
When starting or opening an existing drawing file, some of the screen components displayed by defaul...
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AutoCAD - Adding Bespoke Linetypes to drawings
By Dennis Collin
I was recently asked a question about how to create bespoke linetypes, in addition to the out of the...
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AutoCAD 2020 – Redesigned Purge Feature
By John Flanagan
Easily Clean Drawings With Redesigned Purge
The Purge feature has been redesigned for easier drawin...
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AutoCAD 2020 better than ever with Specialized Toolsets
By Nick Harris
If you haven’t yet received your notification from Autodesk you may not be aware that it is the new r...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Layer Walk
By James Philip
The Layer Walk tool in AutoCAD is one of the most under used, but is essential for understanding draw...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Restore the Classic Workspace
By Justin Doughty
It’s that time of year again! With the introduction of AutoCAD 2020, users are once again asking i...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Changes to the User Interface
By Martin Phelps
With the introduction of AutoCAD 2020 there is another slight change to the user interface. This tim...
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AutoCAD – Loading AutoLisp Routines
By David Lewis
AutoLisp routines can be used to enhance workflows in AutoCAD applications, however it is worth noting...
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AutoCAD 2020 - New Improved Blocks Palette
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Autodesk has improved the way blocks are inserted with the newly designed blocks palet...
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AutoCAD - Rotating the contents of a “Viewport” Using “VPROTATEASSOC”
By Martin Phelps
On occasions, once a viewport has been created, the viewport contents may require rotating. One way...
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Controlling the Number of Temporary Lines of Text Displayed in the Command Line
By Martin Phelps
On install of AutoCAD the command line by default is not docked and is located at the bottom of the...
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AutoCAD 2020 - How to locate critical support file locations
By Dennis Collin
A frequent question I often get from AutoCAD users, is where I can locate such files which store th...
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AutoCAD 2020 - New Block Palette Tabs
By Martin Phelps
The new “Block Palette” has three tabs, the first, “Current Drawing”, shows all the blocks in the cu...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Assessing the New Block Palette
By Martin Phelps
In AutoCAD 2020, the insertion of blocks has been greatly improved by the introduction of the new “B...
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AutoCAD LT v Revit LT v Revit
By Garry Stockton
Whilst out visiting clients and potential customers, I often get asked about the justification to a...
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Dialogue Windows/Boxes/Palettes Do Not Display and the Program Appears to Freeze
By Miles Nicholson
If you enter a command within any of the Autodesk products where a dialogue window should be disp...
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Easy method of measuring areas in AutoCAD – Part 3
By Dennis Collin
In previous blogs I outlined easy ways of measuring areas using the properties palette and Quickcalc...
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AutoCAD Calculating Areas using Add and Subtract
By Martin Phelps
The following process has been requested by several delegates who have attended my AutoCAD Essential...
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A Useful Addition to the “Quick Access Menu”.
By Martin Phelps
An addition to the “Quick Access Menu” for AutoCAD 2018 is the option to have the “Layer” fly out f...
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AutoCAD - Undocking the “Ribbon” Menu
By Martin Phelps
The “Ribbon” menu is not to everyone’s liking, but personally I find it a useful method to access c...
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Draughting Setting Dialogue Box
By Martin Phelps
In previous releases of AutoCAD the “Drafting Settings” dialogue box was of a fixed size, so to mov...
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An Alternative Method of Adding Linear Dimensions
By Martin Phelps
In most cases when adding a “Linear” or “Aligned” dimension, the extremities of the dimension are s...
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Adding Commands to the “Quick Access Menu”
By Martin Phelps
This is a quick and easy method to add frequently used commands to the “Quick Access Menu”, allowi...
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AutoCAD - Customising the Right Mouse Button to Improve Drawing Productivity
By Martin Phelps
This is not a new function since it’s been with AutoCAD for a number of years, but it’s one that is...
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AutoCAD 2019: How to turn the Fields Background Display off
By John Flanagan
Introduction
When you insert data fields in AutoCAD such as room areas, the measurements are highl...
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AutoCAD - Ribbon Menus 1
By Martin Phelps
New users from time to time, may experience accidental changes to the “Ribbon” menu.
By default Aut...
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Problematic AutoCAD drawings which don't hatch and other issues
By Dennis Collin
Quite often several of the following symptoms may result after importing or working with a Land Surv...
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Leader to Mleader Convertor for AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin
AutoCAD has for many years has had Multi-Leader Objects which are invaluable for annotating draw...