Here are a few tips to speed up drafting. 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 »

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 »

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 »

Recently I was looking on the web for a way to flip an arrowhead of a dimension and found this blog posting on JTB World. Apparently a command for this has been out since AutoCAD 2006, but there isn’t much documentation on it. Read more »

Earlier I wrote about the NOTES command in Civil 3D 2008. This time I want to take it a step further. Read more »

The command CHSPACE is an awesome tool! It allows you to select an object in a layout tab (paper space) and put it in Model Space while automatically scaling by the viewport’s scale factor. Read more »

Just like ORTHO, you can quickly find and draw at an angle with POLAR. Typically you will find POLAR under your command line. Right-click on it and select “Settings…”

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Murat Senel has written an excellent article on drawing with OTRACK (object snap tracking)…

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Let’s say you have a piece of text that you want to automatically display the current date. Adding a field to text is the easiest way to do it. Read more »

I have to be honest. One of the first things I do when I receive a drawing from someone is type DIMREASSOC on the command line to reset dimension text values. The reason for this is because I don’t like drawings that contain dimensions that are overridden with text values that don’t match the distance being dimensioned. Read more »