AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2022 - From Snap Function
By John Flanagan AutoCAD – From Snap Function Using the Shift key in conjunction with the mouse and right click menu...
AutoCAD Tip – Graphical glitches with busy drawing? Turn off Hardware Acceleration!
By Dennis Collin When working with certain complex drawings, graphical glitching can sometimes be apparent especiall...
AutoCAD Tip: Hatching problems, Coplanar errors? Ensure elements are drawn in 2D
By Dennis Collin When working with existing drawings that contain 3D elements, there can be a problem in that when ...
AutoCAD Tip - Giving your AutoCAD productivity a lift with Shift!
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD has so many ways of achieving tasks from drop down menus, ribbons and right click menus. So...
AutoCAD Tip - Using Page Setup function to make configuring plots and plotting easy
By Dennis Collin Before plotting a drawing in AutoCAD, it is desirable to specify the settings that determine the ap...
AutoCAD Tip - 3D Rotate Gizmo not aligned to object
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD has some quite powerful tools to relocate elements accurately in 3D space. Elements can be ...
AutoCAD 2022 – Count #4
By Martin Phelps Follow the previous “Blog”, relating to the “Count” function, “Customising the “Block” Listing Table...
AutoCAD LT 2023 now has the ARCTEXT Express Tool command!
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD LT lacks many of the tools its full product cousin has, including 3D modelling capabilities...
AutoCAD – External Reference Files vs Block Reference?
By Dennis Collin A frequent question I often receive whilst training AutoCAD is the difference between External Ref...
AutoCAD - “Offset” Command #7 – Using “Offset” with “Dynamic Input”.
By Martin Phelps The “Dynamic Input” function is turned on by default, but if a custom template is being used to crea...
AutoCAD 2023 - Markup Import and Assist
By Justin Doughty One of the great new features in AutoCAD 2023 is the Markup Import and Assist. This uses machine l...
AutoCAD Tip - Formatting AutoCAD Schedules
By Dennis Collin I recently wrote a post on using AutoCAD’s Data Extraction tool to generate schedules for elements ...
AutoCAD 2022 – Recover data from a system crash?
By Dennis Collin It has probably happened at least once whilst working and trying a meet a deadline! A notification...
AutoCAD 2022 – Checking security settings in AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD 2016 introduced a set of security options to protect systems from running malicious code wh...
AutoCAD - Fatal errors and unexpected behaviours
By Chris Smith Recently, I have been having issues with AutoCAD throughout the day; crashes at unexpected times, file...
AutoCAD Tip – Using Line Patterns to show real world objects
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD has had the ability to display patterned lines since its initial versions. These linetype p...
AutoCAD Tip – Controlling the spacing of dimension objects using the Dimspace command
By Dennis Collin When working in AutoCAD, it can be time consuming to properly locate dimensions with equal consist...
AutoCAD 2022 – Count #7 - Identifying “Blocks” by Layer
By Martin Phelps Another function of the “Count” command is the ability to display “Blocks” by layer. Figure 1 below ...
AutoCAD 2022 - Using Dynamic Input
By John Flanagan Dynamic tooltips provide an alternative way to enter commands. When dynamic input is turned on, a t...
AutoCAD Tip - Restoring missing Model and Layout Space Tabs
By Dennis Collin A recent question I had from an AutoCAD user was that they didn’t have a model space and layout tab...
AutoCAD - “Table” #2 – Adding “Columns”
By Martin Phelps Following on from my previous blog “Table” #1- Adding “Rows”, adding “Columns” to a “Table” works in...
AutoCAD 2022 – Count #1
By Martin Phelps Accessing the “Count” Command. This new feature allows the quick counting of blocks or other objects...
AutoCAD Tip: Useful Colour Revision tool add-in
By Dennis Collin Building service plans are frequently required to show where new equipment is to be installed or mo...
AutoCAD Tip: Selection Manager - a useful add-in to save and recall previous selection sets
By Dennis Collin When working with AutoCAD drawings a lot of time is spent selecting objects. There are lots of ways...
AutoCAD - “Offset” Command #8 – “Offsetgaptype” variable
By Martin Phelps How “Polylines” are “Offset” is determined by the “Offsetgaptype” system variable. Changing the valu...
AutoCAD 2022 – Using AutoCAD’s Drawing Compare tools
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD 2019 introduced a very useful drawing compare feature to its collaboration set of commands....
AutoCAD 2022 – Working with 3D solid models?
By Dennis Collin With the 2022 release of AutoCAD a new technology feature was introduced to the graphics display. T...
AutoCAD Tip – Controlling linetype patterns on polyline entities
By Dennis Collin I recently had a question about controlling the pattern of a dashed line within a drawing. The elem...
AutoCAD Tip – Ensuring Layer States are retained when using Xrefs in AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin Sometimes when working with drawings with External References, the layer states setting can be lost...
AutoCAD 2022 - The Fillet Command
By John Flanagan The Fillet Command In AutoCAD, the Fillet command rounds or fillets the edges of two 2D objects or ...