AutoCAD Tips & Tricks
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AutoCAD is one of the most used engineering programs across the world, and it’s likely that you have come in contact with the program sometime in your career.
This week, we polled our Q&A Community to discover which programs everyday engineers were using the most. Other than Microsoft Excel, which we already have an extensive shortcuts list about, AutoCAD was next in line.
For all the AutoCAD users out there, from new to expert, here are the top 50 AutoCAD tricks, commands, and shortcuts from across the web.
CHSPACE
Allows you to move objects in a drawing from layout to model space by choosing a viewport to push the text or objects into. This works in both directions.
BURST
BURST allows you to explode a block/object without losing any of its attributes.
NCOPY
Copies linework or objects from a nested object into your current drawing. Especially useful for bringing XREF linework into current drawings.
OOPS
OOPS does exactly what you think it does, it fixes your mistake (as long as it’s a delete) no matter how far back it was. Instead of using CTRL-Z, OOPS undoes your last erase command without affecting any work you have done since then.
FILEDIA
Setting this value to 1 allows dialog boxes to open in AutoCAD, setting it to 0 means everything is done in the command line.
APPLOAD
Allows you to set which application to load in conjunction with opening AutoCAD.
Work with Images
Instead of scaling and rotating images each time, simply insert the image into a blank drawing and set its position, scale, and rotation. After your image is how you want it, save the drawing. This lets you insert that image as a drawing, instead of the image, and all settings are kept the same. Especially useful for images like company logos, etc.
R / REDRAW
Refreshes the drawing in the viewport.
DIMBASELINE
Creates a dimension that starts from a baseline of earlier dimensions that is linear, angular or coordinate.
ID
Displays point coordinates throughout your worksheet.
Autoscale Setting
You can adjust your default scale factor by setting the Auxiliary scale factor to Plot Scale or Dimscale.
OVERKILL
Deletes any duplicate or overlapping items. Perfect for the AutoCAD perfectionists out there.
QDIM
Quick dimension creation after object selection.
RECOVER
Recovers a damaged file.
Default NO PLOT Layer
Creates a layer called DEFPOINTS. Anything on this layer will show up in model and paper space, but won’t plot. Perfect for adding notes.
TORIENT
Orients text to a specified angle or most readable angle. Also works on Block Attributes.
RULESURF
Quickly creates a surface between two predefined curves.
Importing Block Definitions
After the INSERT command and selecting the file, press the ESC key at your first prompt. Definitions will be kept in your drawing to reference later.
SPELL
For all those engineers out there that can’t spell, use this to spell check all your text. (Uses your computer language settings)
XCLIP
Trims a block’s visible area using a boundary line. Use the command first, then set or draw the boundary.
U
A quicker “undo” than CTRL Z.
Stop REGEN After PAN
For drawings not created by you, AutoCAD can sometimes autoregen after you pan around. To keep this from happening, use the VIEWRES command and type YES to fast zooms, then set your zoom percent to 200.
MATLIB
Imports and exports materials to a library.
WIPEOUT
Allows you to set boundaries on top of lines and objects that “wipes out” everything behind it. Like a reverse hatch. It’s a good idea to put all your wipeouts on one layer so you can turn them on and off as you wish.
One Key Shortcut
Want to know all of the one key AutoCAD shortcuts? Autodesk put together this quick guide that assembles them all into one sheet. You can check it out here on the Autodesk website, or below.
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