When working on a big project, or even on a small one when you have different Specialists working on it, often there are some revisions and updates on the drawings. In my field (Civil engineer) those updates usually come from the Architects, they really love to make small changes every other day. If there are … Read more
Often times we need to show two sets of units on our Dimensions, especially when working with Imperial units. For example, some US governments require both metric and Imperial. In our example, we will set our Main (Primary) Units at feet-inch and our Secondary (Alternate) Units to mm. Set Alternate Dimension Units (Secondary Dimension Units) … Read more
If you have a Block with an Attribute Text that you want to hide, don’t worry you don’t have to delete the attribute, there is a simple way to turn the text invisible. Also, if you receive a drawing with blocks that must have text attributes but they are not visible, or your own drawing … Read more
In a previous post Create Separate Hatches Fast and Easy! We have discussed, how to create Separate Hatch objects as easy as possible. But what if, we or someone else has created Separate hatches and now we have to Join those hatch objects into one? This can be applicable for example when there are lots of … Read more
Stretch is one of the most important commands in AutoCAD. I just can’t imagine drawing without stretching numerous times a day. However, there is one great command that is included in full AutoCAD versions in the Express Tools pallet called Multiple Object Stretch. This is a Great tool that gives us the opportunity to stretch … Read more
As a European, who is often working on US projects, it is hard for me to imagine the scale of the work in different units. Ahh… I Hate this imperial system, there are so many numbers for remembering. Hopefully, I found that tiny app that is built in the AutoCAD and converts tons of units in … Read more
Since AutoCAD 2010, PDFs have layer information included in them. This is great in most of the cases but what if we want to send our pdf to a client or colleague, and we would rather hide the layers from them?Let’s see how to not include (or how to hide) your Layer table in your PDF … Read more