AutoCAD

AutoCAD Tip - NCopy, useful Express tool to copy elements from external reference files and blocks
By Dennis Collin When working on AutoCAD drawings, Blocks and External Reference files (XREFS) are used to display ...
AutoCAD 2022 - Count #6
By Martin Phelps “Exploded Blocks” in the “Count” List Continuing with the “Count” command, another useful function i...
AutoCAD Tip - Express Tool: DIMREASSOC, or getting Dimensions to read correctly!
By Dennis Collin On a previous blog I mentioned the problem where dimensions on a drawing do not relate to the actua...
AutoCAD Tip - Changing a Polyline shape without using Trim or Explode functions
By Dennis Collin Polylines are very useful objects in drawings as they can provide useful information like perimeter...
AutoCAD 2022 - Dynamic Blocks – Visibility States
By John Flanagan Visibility States Use Visibility States in the Dynamic Blocks Editor to combine several different b...
AutoCAD Tip – Configuring AutoCAD to produce Hi-Res image output
By Dennis Collin Do you need to create a high-resolution image from your AutoCAD drawing? This is a very straightfor...
AutoCAD Tip - Repeat Commands using Multiple Option
By Dennis Collin Whatever kind of drawings you work on in AutoCAD, it is inevitable that some commands will be used ...
AutoCAD Tip: Linking different Tables in AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD has had table elements functionality for several years. The Table function in AutoCAD is l...
AutoCAD Tip - Protecting Tool Palettes from Accidental Changes
By Dennis Collin A question I was recently asked by a senior AutoCAD user was; How do we lock our AutoCAD tool palet...
Getting FBX data from third party products into AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD 2018 had a direct FBX import option where data from InfraWorks, Revit and other non-Autodes...
AutoCAD Tip - Useful Associative Text Framing Utility
By Dennis Collin When working on drawings it is often necessary to be able to frame text with a rectangle, circle or...
AutoCAD Tip - Aligning and getting text to flow along any curve including spline objects!
By Dennis Collin I recently posted about how text can be positioned along a curve using a couple of different techni...
AutoCAD Tip – Useful routine to transfer styles and settings from other AutoCAD drawings
By Dennis Collin A common question I get from many users is “How can I transfer settings like Layers and Blocks from...
AutoCAD Tip - Aligning text to a curve
By Dennis Collin A common task when creating plans of road layouts, is the placement of such features like Street na...
AutoCAD Tip - Ensuring Text elements default to Centre Justification
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD ‘s text entities when placed, tend to be positioned with a left or top left justification. ...
AutoCAD Tip - Globally change Mtext and Text justification without changing the annotation position
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD ‘s text entities when placed, tend to be positioned with a left or top left justification. ...
AutoCAD Tip - Locating Dimensions that have been overridden as text
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD is a very versatile drawing tool and is very tolerant in letting users do anything in a dra...
AutoCAD Tip - Enhanced Block, Xref and Image Clipping Utility
By Dennis Collin When working on drawings with blocks, referenced drawings or images it is often necessary to be abl...
AutoCAD Tip: Useful Add-in to number elements and produce coordinate schedules
By Dennis Collin SACOOR is a useful Add-in to help AutoCAD users extract the coordinates for elements such as Polyli...
AutoCAD - Detailing to Revit
By Garry Stockton Converting AutoCAD Detail to Revit Did you know you can draw high quality details in Revit, if stan...
Converting AutoCAD DWG files to older formats without AutoCAD 2022
By Dennis Collin I often get asked about AutoCAD not being able to open drawings created in newer versions. Every fe...
AutoCAD Tip: Improving AutoCAD start-up times and performance
By Dennis Collin A frequent question that is often asked is how can to improve AutoCAD performance generally? For dr...
AutoCAD - Part 1 - Adding an Existing Drawing into a New drawing Contain a Drawing Border & Part 2 - Display and Scale the Inserted Drawing in “Paper Space”.
By Martin Phelps Part 1 - Adding an Existing Drawing into a New drawing Contain a Drawing Border This was a question ...
AutoCAD Tip: Useful Text Editing Tool
By Dennis Collin Editing and replacing text is a common task in many types of drawings, from building services drawi...
AutoCAD Tip - Creating a button for commands only accessible via the command line – Part 1
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD has many useful commands within its environment. Many of the more common examples are promi...
AutoCAD Tip - Copy Layer List to Excel
By Dennis Collin I recently got asked whether the listing of layers and properties can be exported to Excel. I star...
AutoCAD Tip - Removing a Jog from a 3D Section Plane
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD’s Section Plane tool provides the ability to create a 2D slice or 3D slice portion of a mod...
AutoCAD 2022 – Count #3
By Martin Phelps Customising the “Block” Listing Table. Following the previous blog, “Adding a “Block” Listing Table ...
AutoCAD Tip: How to find the version of DWG format without using AutoCAD
By Dennis Collin AutoCAD tends to update its DWG format every 3 or 4 releases which means sometimes users are unable...
AutoCAD Tip: Layer Filter Transfer Tool Add-in
By Dennis Collin Layer filters are vital in efficient workflows when working with drawings with large numbers of lay...