AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD – How to Remove Autodesk 360

click on ‘add or remove features’ in control panel, uncheck Autodesk 360 for AutoCAD to update, open CUI window, select customize workspace, change Autodesk 360 show to ‘no’ to remove software

HOW TO ADD THE NWCOUT FUNCTION TO THE AUTOCAD RIBBON

open CUI dialog box, click new command under command list header, set command properties, visit ‘export to DWF/PDF’ panel to locate newly created command in command list

HOW TO CHANGE DRAWING FROM USING INCHES TO YARDS

open original, new drawing to set insertion units to inches, yards, insert drawing that uses inches into one that uses yards in AutoCAD

Quit Wasting Time with these 5 Productivity Tricks

Involve both hands to focus on 2 tasks, memorize short codes of commonly used AutoCAD commands, create block for anything that is often drawn, use .dwt template file, title block to add consistency to drawings

Objects from xref drawings do not plot or view correctly in AutoCAD Drawing

open Xref drawing, set value of INDEXCTL system variable to 0 before resaving drawing in AutoCAD

AutoCAD: Start page is truncated or skewed

right-click on desktop, select personalize, display, pick ‘smaller’ size of all items before rebooting PC to solve graphics/video card problems in AutoCAD