Here are a few tips to speed up drafting. Read more »

Here are a few things you can do to help speed up AutoCAD. Read more »

Shaan Hurly wrote a great tip on publishing PDFs.

When plotting or publishing PDFs you can set it to publish individual PDF files or a single PDF file with many pages/sheets. The system variable is PUBLISHCOLLATE. Read more »

There may be times when you would want to turn on/off the dialog box when inserting an attributed block into your drawings. For example, if you are creating a script or macro that inserts an attributed block you might want to set ATTDIA to 0 (zero) at the beginning so that the it will prompt for attributes on the command line only. Read more »

Here is a quick way of creating a selection of the most recently-created object in your drawing. Read more »

A relatively unknown command modifier is Mid Between Two Points. What it does is prompts you to select two points and then it will find the middle of those two points. You can use this command modifier along with other OSNAPs as well. Read more »

Have you ever noticed that when you select a bunch of objects in AutoCAD, sometimes their grips appear and sometimes they don’t? No, this isn’t a bug. It’s something called Grip Object Limit. Read more »

This Express Tools command may not be new to some of you but I thought I would share anyway. Type the command SUPERHATCH on the command line and you will get this: Read more »

Autodesk Design Review is free software that you can use to view, print, markup, and measure AutoCAD drawings. I am going to show you how to compare design changes with it. Read more »

The VIEW command has been around for a while. Ever since Autodesk introduced Sheet Set Manager named views have become even more important. Read more »

Murph has written an excellent post on creating contours from shape files with elevations. I have been using this method for a while now. In fact I have written scripts and macros to automate importation of contour data into my drawings. Read more »