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There a dozens of good blogs with great tips for using AutoCAD in all sorts of situations. There are also great forums at the Autodesk User Group International. Correction – there was. They totally broke it and threw out years of knowledge. Don’t get me started. I left the link here so you can go see for yourself.

CADalyst also has lots of tips. There are plenty of others.

I’m not here to clone or compete with those great resources. Some things I cover here may be variations, or even (rarely, I hope) repeats of tips you will find elsewhere. The focus here is specific to the kind of CAD we do – Broadcast (and IT) systems design and documentation. These tips have saved me a lot of time and hassle, sped things up and dodged a helluva lot of monotony.

AutoCAD Layers are not Layers

AutoCAD Layers are not Layers

By CADbloke on September 14, 2010

AutoCAD “Layers” should be called Collections, or Bundles. They are a way of grouping objects (lines, blocks, text, whatever you like) together so you may easily adjust properties they share.

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Full-screen Shortcut for AutoCAD

Full-screen Shortcut for AutoCAD

By CADbloke on March 26, 2010

I wanted a full-screen shortcut like Internet Exploder, Firefox and other web browsers, just for having a good look at a drawing on the whole screen with no distractions.

The Cleanscreen command is a good start but it didn’t go far enough for me, so I hacked it and added a few things to it. Now my full-screen has only the Top window bar with the quick-access menu and nothing else.

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