Category AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD 2017 Import PDF as Vectors

AutoCAD 2017 has added the ability to import a PDF as vector objects and not just as a raster PDF underlay added back in AutoCAD 2007. Customers have been asking for a longtime for this feature but there has been…

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Breaks the F Keys in AutoCAD

With the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update the F keys used for many important keyboard functions have been broken. Our teams have logged the issue with Microsoft for a resolution. Product Support will advise once the solution is provided. A…

Autodesk Answer Day is Tomorrow May 18th

If you have Autodesk product questions, we have answers. Join the big Autodesk answer day tomorrow online and speak with people from several Autodesk product teams. What: Autodesk Answer Day – You have questions, we’ve got answers! Date: May 18th,…

AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts

The speed at which you can use the keyboard (aside from a script or LISP)  is still the fastest method in AutoCAD in my opinion. Knowing even just a few simple shortcuts will save you keystrokes and time. Here is…

AutoCAD 2016 XREFOVERRIDE

Here is a very handy change to AutoCAD 2016 made after customers requested the functionality to change properties of Layers in an AutoCAD XREF. When the AutoCAD System Variable XREFOVERRIDE is set to 1, you can change the Color, Linetype,…

OSNAP AutoCAD 2016 GeometricCenter

There was a change in AutoCAD 2016 with OSNAP. GeometricCenter is a new OSNAP type for centroid of closed polyline or spline. Thank you to AutoCAD Team member Tao Zheng for the heads up on this change.

Autodesk Answer Day May 7th 2015 – AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT

The Autodesk Answer Days series will start with members of the AutoCAD team and is free. Join the first AutoCAD Answer Day online event on Thursday, May 7th from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time. If you have AutoCAD…

AutoCAD 2016 Videos

A series of 11 videos in a showing the new features in the just released AutoCAD 2016 are now posted to YouTube as a playlist. If you are an Autodesk subscription customer you can download your AutoCAD 2016 today and…

Five AutoCAD Tips that you can learn in Five minutes

We all want to get more done in less time so that we can go home early, Sorry – so that we can concentrate on value added tasks, such as Designing or Engineering 😉 The trouble is, experimenting with different…

Helpful AutoCAD Tips and Solutions

Here is a great list of recently published AutoCAD solutions by some AutoCAD Team Members: Date Article Author 10/8/2014 HP printers do not work with AutoCAD 2015 on Windows 8 Daniel Kuhmann 10/23/2014 Cannot import SketchUp files Karen Mason 10/23/2014…