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AutoCAD Tip - Dealing with Oversized AutoCAD Drawings?
By Dennis Collin
A common question I often receive are questions on AutoCAD drawings crashing on save, edit or publi...
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AutoCAD Tip - Introduction to AutoCAD Sheet Sets
By Dennis Collin
Whilst talking to AutoCAD users I often ask how they keep track of their drawing files. Typically, ...
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AutoCAD - Count #10 – Specifying a Non-Rectangular “Count” Area
By Martin Phelps
This function is similar to selecting objects using the “Window Polygon” method, when using certain ...
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AutoCAD 2024 – Start Tab Updates
By John Flanagan
Start Tab
The new AutoCAD Start tab lets you easily access files and other helpful content directly...
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AutoCAD - Reassociating DWG files to AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin
I recently came across an issue where, when starting AutoCAD, it caused an error message stating th...
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Autodesk AutoCAD 2024 – Activity Insights History Not Working?
By Dennis Collin
Question:
My AutoCAD 2024 does seem to be displaying any Activity Insights events.
Answer:
There co...
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AutoCAD 2023 – The Align command or Move, Rotate and Scale
By Dennis Collin
A common situation in AutoCAD is where elements are not located in the correct place, angle or size...
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AutoCAD 2023 – Clearing out recent file history?
By Dennis Collin
AutoCAD, like many applications, remembers previous drawings that have been accessed. The number of...
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AutoCAD - Occasional crashes when updating Sheet Sets? Apply Update!
By Dennis Collin
I was recently having a conversation with a customer who was experiencing a crash when updating she...
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AutoCAD Tip - Bulk Layout Tab Renaming Utility
By Dennis Collin
When working with complex AutoCAD drawing files, there is often a need to present this information ...
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AutoCAD - Count #14 – Using the “Count” Command to Highlight Overlapping Objects
By Martin Phelps
Another function of the “Count” command is the ability to highlight overlapping objects. Figure 1 sh...
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AutoCAD - Block “Replace”
By Martin Phelps
A useful new feature introduced in AutoCAD 2024 is “Block” “Replace”. This allows the user to change...
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AutoCAD - Set to “Bylayer”
By Martin Phelps
This command can be easily overlooked, or not even noticed. It’s located in the expansion area of th...
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AutoCAD Tip - Improved Table Sorting Add-in
By Dennis Collin
AutoCAD has had the ability to create tables for some years. They can be generated via the Data Ext...
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AutoCAD Tip - Making AutoCAD annotations smarter! – Part 1
By Dennis Collin
I frequently talk to AutoCAD users who want to make their drawings smarter and emulate BIM programs...
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AutoCAD - Mtext #1 - Importing Text from a “Word” Document
By Martin Phelps
Text can be imported directly from a “Word” document into AutoCAD, once in the AutoCAD drawing file ...
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AutoCAD 2024 – DWG Compare Tool
By John Flanagan
DWG Compare Tool
The drawing compare tool was introduced to AutoCAD in the 2019 version, developed ...
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AutoCAD Tip - Convert PDF to DWG
By Dennis Collin
PDF files are one of the most common file formats used when exchanging design information between d...
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AutoCAD 2024 – Common Bad Practices – Part 2
By John Flanagan
The AutoCAD bad practices included in this blog are examples of the common ones witnessed in drawin...
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AutoCAD 2024 – Missing entities in drawings? Reference to Object Enablers?
By Dennis Collin
I recently had a question from a user working on a pipe network drawing, where a file was being vie...
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AutoCAD 2024 – New Commands and System Variables
By John Flanagan
New AutoCAD Commands and System Variables Reference
See the product help for a complete list of the...
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AutoCAD LT 2024 – Improving Productivity using Appload and AutoLISP!
By Dennis Collin
In a previous post I mentioned how now AutoCAD LT 2024 users can benefit from using external progra...
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AutoCAD – Opening a drawing with a user defined named view
By Dennis Collin
When working on large or complex drawings there is often a requirement to be able to quickly view o...
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AutoCAD - Count #11 – Defining a “Count” area by Object Selection
By Martin Phelps
As an alternative to creating a “Rectangular” or “Non-Rectangular” “Count” area, described in the pr...
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AutoCAD LT 2024 – Batting Line Routine for LT!
By Dennis Collin
When training AutoCAD, I am often asked about whether AutoCAD or LT has the ability to drawing batt...
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AutoCAD LT 2024 is out! – What’s New? A first look
By Dennis Collin
The month of March is over, and it is that time of year when a new version of AutoCAD LT is availa...
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AutoCAD 2024 is out! – What’s New? A first look
By Dennis Collin
It’s now officially summertime here in the UK, although the current gloomy weather would tell us ot...
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AutoCAD App – Import Sketchup Files Add-in
By Dennis Collin
AutoCAD has no out of the box Sketchup importer, however for several years there has been a free ad...
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AutoCAD Tip – Controlling text appearance on Mirrored items
By Dennis Collin
A common question that is asked during AutoCAD training is how to control the mirroring of text, or...
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AutoCAD - “TEXTALIGN” Tool # 1 Command Introduction
By Martin Phelps
The “Text Align” command is not new to AutoCAD, and is available in both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, how...