AutoCAD

AutoCAD – Adding Rotated Dimensions using “DIMROTATED”
by Martin Phelps From time to time a rotated dimension may be required in a drawing, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1....
AutoCAD 2021: Missing Drawing Tabs
by Justin Doughty When your day to day tools in AutoCAD don’t behave as they should it can dramatically affect worki...
AutoCAD Tip – controlling linetype behaviour
by Dennis Collin Fig. Linetypes not showing or behaving strangely? Read on! Misbehaving linetypes are a common issu...
AutoCAD Express Tools – Linetype Creation utility
by Dennis Collin For many years AutoCAD has had a useful set of tools which makes certain tasks a lot easier to perf...
Selection Preview in AutoCAD
by Martin Phelps By default, when selecting objects in the drawing using any of the various selection methods, the se...
AutoCAD Tip: Repair old AutoCAD drawings with the AutoCAD Mobile App
by Dennis Collin When opening very old drawings, perhaps as old as pre-release 12 (DOS) files, the following error m...
AutoCAD Tip - Align Space Express Tool: Easily orient model space views to sheet
by Dennis Collin Fig. Trying to get a drawing to follow the main axis of a sheet can sometimes be a challenge! Rota...
AutoCAD Tip: Useful Gridline Creation Add-in
by Dennis Collin AutoCAD has many useful add-ins on the App store. This Grid Line creation recently caught my eye. T...
AutoCAD Tip: Easy way to duplicate Layout tabs
by Dennis Collin There are several ways to duplicate Layout tabs. Using the right click menu is one way. Choose Move...
AutoCAD Tip: Restore or reinstall missing Express tools
by Dennis Collin AutoCAD’s Express Tools are a very useful suite of tools, however sometimes the Express tools menu ...
AutoCAD Tip: Using AutoCAD text fields in Title Sheets
by Dennis Collin AutoCAD has had text fields for many years. Fields are a way of automatically reading information a...
Revit 2021: Managing Windows
by John Flanagan Managing Windows The drawing area displays views (and sheets and schedules) of the current model. E...
AutoCAD 2021: Inserting Dynamic Blocks
by John Flanagan Inserting Dynamic Blocks Inserting dynamic blocks follows the procedures that is used when insertin...
Useful and quick AutoCAD add-in to increment and replace text strings
by Dennis Collin   Numbering up equipment in AutoCAD can be a little tedious as it involves having to create new tex...
AutoCAD – Calculating Volumes using 2D objects
by Martin Phelps This function is not new to AutoCAD, but may often be overlooked  since it may not be a process ofte...
AutoCAD Tip: Easy ways to edit AutoCAD Block Attributes
by Dennis Collin AutoCAD blocks often have textual information attached to them. This information can be all kinds o...
AutoCAD Tip : Preventing Users from Exploding Blocks
by Dennis Collin The Explode command within AutoCAD does have its uses, but frequently the command can become an ann...
AutoCAD Tip : Showing Setting Out Information within an AutoCAD Drawing
by Dennis Collin When working in construction there is sometimes a need to show the position of markers for site con...
AutoCAD Tip: Showing relative coordinates automatically in drawings
by Dennis Collin Recently I wrote a post on how to utilise fields within AutoCAD to show coordinates on survey and g...
AutoCAD Tip: Reset AutoCAD back to default settings
by Dennis Collin AutoCAD has been around for many years and runs smoothly, however at times odd things can happen, d...
AutoCAD 2021: Defining and Attaching Block Attributes
by John Flanagan What are Attributes? An attribute is a label or tag that attaches data to a block. They can also be...
AutoCAD 2021: Creating Dynamic Block Definitions
by John Flanagan Dynamic Block Definitions The Block Editor enables you to create new dynamic block definitions from...
AutoCAD Tip: Best Practice Way of Importing Excel data into AutoCAD (& LT!)
by Dennis Collin There is often a need to show an Excel table within an AutoCAD drawing. Typically, this object is u...
AutoCAD 2021: Modifying Dynamic Blocks – Part 2
by John Flanagan Stretching, Arraying and Scaling In my previous blog we looked at typical dynamic block grips, in p...
AutoCAD Tip : Making Blocks Annotative for building services drawings
by Dennis Collin When producing drawings of building services there is frequently a need to deliver drawings at diff...
AutoCAD 2021: Modifying Dynamic Blocks
by John Flanagan Modifying Dynamic Blocks Creating dynamic blocks is an extension of creating static block definitio...
AutoCAD Tip - Search Command
by David Lewis   Generally when delivering an essentials course I encourage users not to type commands into the comm...
AutoCAD 2021: How to Insert Fields
by John Flanagan How To Insert Fields This blog follows on from my previous blog: Using Fields (09/09/2020). In the...
AutoCAD 2021: Using Fields
by John Flanagan Using Fields Fields are text objects that are designed to hold information that updates in a drawin...
AutoCAD – Converting Selected Text to Uppercase
by Martin Phelps   To save the time and effort involved in typing “Text” into a drawing, for example specification da...