Comments(12) 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 »
Comments(1) 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 »
Comments(1) Did you know that AutoCAD’s CAL command has a memory? It does. Read more »
Comments(0) You can easily calculate the square or square root of a number in AutoCAD. Read more »
Comments(0) 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 »
Comments(1) The BREAKLINE command is an Express Tools command that creates a line to represent a partial view of a drawing that looks something like this:
Comments(3) Previously I wrote about using AutoLISP to create selection sets. While these are great, especially for use in scripts and macros, they are kind of clunky to use if you need a quick selection set. Here are a few quick and easy ways to create selection sets. Read more »
Comments(1) The COPYTOLAYER command introduced in AutoCAD 2007 copies entities to a different layer. When you use this command it prompts you to select objects. When you have selected objects hit enter and it will prompt you to select an object on the destination layer or type N to type in the layer name manually.
Comments(0) I used to use Quick Leaders (command: QLEADER) in past versions of AutoCAD. In AutoCAD 2007/2008 they introduced annotative scaling for text, leaders, etc. I was excited about the possibilities of annotative scaling but was disappointed when I applied annotative scaling to Quick Leaders. When I would change the annotative scale in a drawing the text would either seperate from or overlap the leader. This was a problem! Read more »
Comments(8) I like using the INSPECT (or AECINSPECT) command in Civil 3D 2008 instead of Express Tools XLIST. Read more »
Comments(0) The AutoCAD 2008 Command Reference brought to you by kxcad looks similar to the AutoCAD help file. I found it useful because it’s searchable using Google. For example…
