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AutoCAD Tip – Create 2D Isometric Drawings in LT and Full AutoCAD
by Dennis Collin
AutoCAD is ideal for creation plan, section, and elevation drawings for a range of disciplines. How...
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AutoCAD Tip – Leveraging AutoCAD fields in Title Sheet Attributes
by Dennis Collin
AutoCAD has had the functionality of fields for many years. Fields are a way of automatically readi...
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AutoCAD Tip – Dialogue Boxes Missing or Off-Screen?
by Dennis Collin
I recently had a problem with AutoCAD where my properties and layer manager dialogue were off scree...
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AutoCAD Tip – Controlling AutoCAD with the System Variable Editor.
by Dennis Collin
AutoCAD system variables cause users all kind of problems when working with AutoCAD drawings. While...
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Managing Drawings with Layers in AutoCAD
by John Flanagan
Creating and Assigning Layers
A layering scheme is one of the most important organising tools in an...
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AutoCAD 2025 – Understanding the UCS
by John Flanagan
Introduction
The user coordinate system (UCS) establishes the location and orientation of a movable...
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What's New In AutoCAD 2025
by Justin Doughty
It's that time of year again, Autodesk AutoCAD 2025 has now been released. We've gathered togethe...
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AutoCAD Tip – Enhance Productivity with Templates
by Dennis Collin
A users’ AutoCAD experience is greatly enhanced if provided a template file with all the company’s ...
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AutoCAD Tip – Using Tables for drawing keys/legends
By Dennis Collin
A common question when training AutoCAD is how to be more efficient when working. A typical answer ...
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AutoCAD Tip – Missing Dialogue Boxes?
by Dennis Collin
Occasionally I have had conversations with users of various flavours of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT wher...
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Modify Layers using the Additional Layer Commands
by John Flanagan
Introduction
In AutoCAD we use the Layer Properties Manager to create new layers and change the pro...
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AutoCAD Tip – Working with a Real-World Location in AutoCAD?
by Dennis Collin
When working with plans or indeed any drawing involving sites or buildings, it is highly likely tha...
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AutoCAD Tip – Resetting AutoCAD without reinstalling software.
by Dennis Collin
Is your AutoCAD ‘broken’ or not working as you would like it?
It happens to us all; you get your ne...
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AutoCAD Tip – Overlaying Satellite Imagery onto Drawings
by Dennis Collin
When producing site drawings, particularly for infrastructure and larger scale projects, there is a...
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AutoCAD Tip – Importing Excel Data into AutoCAD as tables
by Dennis Collin
I often get a question on the best practice for linking or importing an Excel spreadsheet into Full...
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AutoCAD 2025: An Overview of Creating Annotative Objects
by John Flanagan
Introduction
Annotation objects provide information about a feature, such as the length of a wall, ...
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AutoCAD - Creating Stacked Text using “Mtext”
by Martin Phelps
The “Stacked” option in “Mtext” allows you to “Stack” text, using alphanumerical values giving the r...
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AutoCAD 2025 – Associative Dimensions
by John Flanagan
Introduction
Do you ever wonder why some dimensions update when the geometry changes and others do ...
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AutoCAD 2025 – Hatch Improvements
by John Flanagan
The new AutoCAD 2025 release has several new features. This blog will look at the clever new Hatch ...
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AutoCAD Tip – Showing Coordinates as Latitude and Longitude
by Dennis Collin
When working with larger scale drawings with aerial photography or satellite imagery overlay, there...
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AutoCAD Converting “Single Line Text” to “Multiline Text” #1 – Introduction
by Martin Phelps
General practice is to use “Multiline Text” instead of “Single Line Text”, since “Multiline text” gi...
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AutoCAD 2024: Names Views and Layout Viewports
by John Flanagan
What are Named Views?
Named views are areas of a drawing that are stored under specific names (like...
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AutoCAD. Controlling the Display of Selected Objects
by Martin Phelps
#1 Line Display.
When selecting objects when a command is active, the selected objects are displayed...
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AutoCAD 2024: Using Dynamic Input
by John Flanagan
Dynamic tooltips provide an alternative way to enter commands. When dynamic input is turned on, a t...
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AutoCAD 2024: Modifying Dynamic Blocks – Part 2
by John Flanagan
Stretching, Arraying and Scaling
In my previous blog (Modifying Dynamic Blocks – Part 1) we looked ...
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AutoCAD 2024: Inserting Dynamic Blocks
by John Flanagan
Inserting Dynamic Blocks
Inserting dynamic blocks follows the procedures that are used when inserti...
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AutoCAD Tip: Unable to Purge unwanted blocks from a drawing?
By Dennis Collin
I recently had a question from a customer who had a block that would not purge from a drawing. It w...
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AutoCAD 2025: The Fillet Command – No Trim Mode
by John Flanagan
Introduction
A fillet or round connects two objects with a tangent arc in 2D or creates a rounded t...
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AutoCAD Tip – Efficient Layer Management using Layer States
by Dennis Collin
I was having a recent discussion with a user on how to set the same layer conditions when working o...
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AutoCAD. Setting the Display of Selected Objects
by Martin Phelps
#2 Selection Glow Colour.
This continues on from my previous blog which controlled the form of selec...