Hints & Tips
AutoCAD Tips for users
Lost or hidden
- What can we do for the points that is not visible?
- How to find the lost toolbar?
- How to bring back the lost command line?
- Electricity gone! What will happen to drawing?
- How to bring back lost Model and Layout tabs?
- System Variables FILEDIA, CMDDIA
- What can we do for the points that is not visible?
- How to prevent command dialog boxes to appear?
- Hide logo when AutoCAD starts
Productivity
- Practical method for entering angles: POLAR TRACKING
- Express Tools: TCASE command
- Send your UCSICON to lower left corner.
- Arc drawing techniques in AutoCAD
- REFERENCE feature in SCALE and ROTATE
- Small tips for Drawing a Rectangle…
- Joining corners by using FILLET
- Command aliases in AutoCAD
- GRIP editing in AutoCAD
- Speeding up the Drawing by Using Object Snap (OSNAP)
- Making selection in AutoCAD
- A Practical way of selecting entities: QUICKSELECT
- Selecting overlapping entities.
- Geometrical Calculator
- Attaching hyperlink to AutoCAD entities
- AutoCAD Drawing Templates acadiso.dwt
- Characters entered in front of AutoCAD commands
- Layer property filters in AutoCAD
- Copying all layers of a drawing to another
- Hip tip: How to make a line parallel to another?
- Hip tip: Multiple EXTEND and TRIM by using FENCE option.
- Hit tip: Using TRIM command more effectively.
- Hip tip: LINE-LINE, LINE-ARC-ARC-ARC-ARC-LINE continuity.
- Hip tip: Converting lines and arcs to PLINE with PEDIT command
- Creating a blank area to cover objects: WIPEOUT command
Printing & Layout
- Default scale settings for printouts
- Making the lines and surfaces with unstraigth angles paralel while plotting
- Plotting multiple layouts at the same time
- Complex viewports inside layouts.
- Advanced plotting using Layouts
3D Works
- How to maximize your workspace?
- Use layers when modelling in 3D!
- System Variables affecting the display of 3-D solid models
Unit concepts
Blocks
Dimensioning