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AutoCAD’s Fast Selection Express Tool
AutoCAD has many ways to select objects for editing drawings. A commonly forgotten feature is within AutoCAD’s Expre...
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AutoCAD 2020 – Modifying and Editing Polylines
By John Flanagan
AutoCAD 2020 – Modifying and Editing Polylines
Filleting Polylines
If an object is drawn with a pol...
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AutoCAD 2021 - Drawing History
by Martin Phelps
Saving a drawing file to cloud locations such as “Onedrive”, “Dropbox” or “Box” is not new, however ...
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Revit 2021 – Improved Section Head Display
by Dennis Collin
Revit 2021 was recently released and one of the new features is the ability to turn Section Head Ma...
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Block replacement Utility for AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin
For many years AutoCAD has come with a suite of additional utilities known as the Express Tools. Th...
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AutoCAD - Creating a Custom Viewport Scale
By Martin Phelps
Once a “Viewport” has been created, it is generally required to scale the contents to a recognised o...
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AutoCAD 2020 – Modifying and Editing Polylines – Part 2
By John Flanagan
AutoCAD 2020 – Modifying and Editing Polylines – Part 2
Making Smooth Polyline Curves
Look at the c...
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AutoCAD 2020 – Isometric Text
By John Flanagan
Isometric Text:
My previous blog focused on placing isometric dimensions. In this blog we will focu...
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To Xplode or not to Explode in AutoCAD? That is the question!
By Dennis Collin
The EXPLODE command allows you to convert complex objects to their constituent components. Multilin...
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AutoCAD - Fine tuning drawings with AutoCAD’s nudge command
By Dennis Collin
For years many graphics programs have had the ability to nudge elements around the screen like Illu...
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AutoCAD - Blocks Pallet System Variable - BLOCKMRULIST
By David Lewis
The release of AutoCAD 2020 introduced new functionality to the block pallet, including the recent bl...
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AutoCAD - web app
By John van Rijn
When you don’t have access to your office workstation, the AutoCAD web app can save you in a pinch. ...
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AutoCAD - Creating Hatch from Existing Hatched Area
By Martin Phelps
Once a hatch pattern has been added to a drawing, its properties including “Scale”, “Layer”, “Colour...
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AutoCAD 2020 – Quick Measure
By John Flanagan
AutoCAD 2020: The Quick Measure Command
In AutoCAD 2020, measuring distances is faster than ever wi...
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AutoCAD - Remaining “Fillet” Sub-Commands
By Martin Phelps
The two remaining sub commands in “Fillet” which have not been covered by my previous blogs are “Und...
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AutoCAD - Filleting Parallel Lines
By Martin Phelps
Selecting two parallel lines when using the “Fillet” command will result in a Semi-Circle being plac...
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AutoCAD - Adding a Fillet Between Two Circles
By Martin Phelps
Using the “Fillet” command to create a “Fillet” between a “Circle and a “Circle” again depends great...
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AutoCAD - Fillet Command – Selecting Lines
By Martin Phelps
The “Fillet” command will add a tangential “Arc” with a constant radius between two selected 2D obje...
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AutoCAD - Disabling the Lasso Selection Option
By Martin Phelps
Not a new function to AutoCAD, but a question that crops up on many training courses, “How do I canc...
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AutoCAD 2021: Stuck in Viewport
by Justin Doughty
When working with Viewports in AutoCAD, you may be zooming in and out of certain areas. Sometimes ...
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AutoCAD 2021 Revision Cloud Enhancements.
by Martin Phelps
Prior to AutoCAD 2021, the “Recloud” object was a “Polyline”, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1.
For...
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AutoCAD - Locking the Block Editor
By Martin Phelps
When editing a block, whether it’s a standard “Block” or a “Dynamic Block”, as with “Text” and “Hat...
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AutoCAD 2020 – The Polygon Command
By John Flanagan
AutoCAD 2020 – The Polygon Command
Introduction:
You use the Polygon Command to create an equilater...
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AutoCAD - Controlling Paper Space Display
By Martin Phelps
In a previous blog I mentioned that from time to time the “Model” and “Paper” tabs at the bottom of ...
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AutoCAD - To Stop Automatic Viewport Creation
By Martin Phelps
Starting a drawing using one of the many AutoCAD supplied template files, when switching to paper sp...
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AutoCAD 2020 – Isometric Text & Dimensions
By John Flanagan
To help explain this feature we will use a simple isometric cube as shown in the image below.
Maki...
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How do I migrate my old AutoCAD settings to a new software release?
By Dennis Collin
This is a common question received all year around, but especially around the month of April each y...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Whipthread
By Justin Doughty
When looking through various performance guides for AutoCAD, you may come across the system variab...
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AutoCAD 2020 - Hyperlink Layout
By Justin Doughty
You may have used or seen hyperlinks before in AutoCAD, usually pointing to a website or another f...
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AutoCAD – Improving productivity with external routines
By Dennis Collin
In a previous post I mentioned how AutoCAD users can utilise the benefit external programs such as A...