Category AutoCAD Tips

Top 10 AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Solutions 4/2/2021

Tiana is our awesome Autodesk Community Manager for AutoCAD, and recently posted this article showing the recent most popular AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT solutions. Top 10 AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Solutions | Autodesk Knowledge Articles

AutoCAD Facebook Live Event Wednesday May 5, 2021

Tomorrow on Facebook there will be a Facebook Live event with AutoCAD Team member Dan Kuhmann. Dan is a very knowledgeable member of the AutoCAD core product team as well as all around funny and nice human. Please join AutoCAD…

Ease the Pain of AutoCAD Workstation Configuration

This tip is from 2019 by Frank Mayfield, but super relevant today with the recent new releases of Autodesk products and most everyone using multiple products or managing multiple machines and users and needing an easier method to uninstall products…

AutoCAD Electrical and Dynamo in This Weeks Autodesk Community Conversations Events

Register now for this weeks two separate Autodesk Community Conversations. What are Community Conversations? Community Conversations provide opportunities for engineers, designers, artists, and makers to meet in a safe, live, virtual setting to share expertise, get to know leaders in…

GREAT AUTOCAD TIP – OOPs sorry for the ALL CAPS

This is an oldie, but a goodie to prevent the appearance of YELLING IN ALL CAPS. We use all capital letters in most CAD drawings for the readability of the text, and sometimes we get  drawn away from AutoCAD to…

Free 100% DWG File Viewer that Includes Measure and Convert

The free Autodesk TrueView is built on the same core code as AutoCAD and as such has 100% DWG viewing and plotting like AutoCAD. It also has some really nice features besides just viewing a DWG file and that is…

Pizza Economics and AutoCAD Fields

I read a startling research item by Mashable that may not have been apparent to everyone. It wasn’t apparent to all of us Autodeskers who have a long tradition with Beer Busts at special events and Autodesk University. There is…

Clean your AutoCAD DWG and Kill Zombies

Are you receiving bloated unruly DWG files from someone that are a suspected zombie apocalypse and walking dead? Here is a good solution good solution and timely for Halloween. Slay those zombies bloating your DWG files. “Ready to purge the…

The Best of Lynn Allen’s AutoCAD Tips & Tricks

For both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT For over 10 years, AutoCAD expert Lynn Allen has produced an annual collection of her top tips and tricks for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. This year, using feedback from AutoCAD users around the globe,…

AutoCAD Family Feud at Autodesk University 2016

Survey Says, Autodesk University 2016 will be a lot of Fun! I am really looking forward to this fun event at Autodesk University this year. I get to go against my good friend, colleague, and fellow Portlandia resident Lynn Allen…