Find Area in Acres

There are quite a few ways to accomplish this and I am going to show you a little trick to find area in acres quickly. The reason I am writing this is to show you some of the capabilities AutoCAD has when it comes to doing calculations. Read more »

Using Pi in Calculations

I hope you had a good weekend. As promised today I will talk about using Pi in calculations.

You can call up Pi in the CAL command by simply typing “pi” (without quotation marks). Read more »

Calculator Memory

Did you know that AutoCAD’s CAL command has a memory? It does. Read more »

Squares & Square Roots

You can easily calculate the square or square root of a number in AutoCAD. Read more »

Understanding the Syntax of CAL Expressions

If you type CAL on the command line, at the Expression prompt you can type a formula and AutoCAD will return the answer. Read more »