Two of the most commonly used commands by me are Bring to Front and Send to Back. This is because our drawings often times are overcrowded and they can become hard for understanding. By using display settings we can make our drawings more readable and professional looking. The problem with this commands is that there is … Read more
Are you trying to convert Text to Mtext Without any Formatting? I was trying to do just that a lot of times and finally, I found a solution! Here we will take a look at it. The reason why I wanted to convert several Text objects to single line Mtext objects is that I wanted to … Read more
The problem? Today I received one architectural site plan with really poor linework. I assume that the Architect had used Revit or other similar software and then exported his drawing to AutoCAD. But the result was really bad for me. All the objects were blocks and all the objects in the blocks had different layers … Read more
If you are working in the field of Civil Engineering or Land Surveying you probably faced the problem of Assigning Elevations to Polylines. The most common situation is when you have to use someone’s existing drawing and they exploded everything. Or have flattened the contours and now all the polylines have Elevation 0. The second … Read more
At the beginning of 2018 at work, we moved to AutoCAD Civil 3d 2018, there is some cool new stuff but we faced some really annoying Grip issues. Issues Label and Arc Grips Issues in Civil 3d The first problem we faced was the grips of Spot Elevation Surface Labels. Whenever we try to move … Read more
We already discussed, what grouped objects are and how to Create AutoCAD Groups. Today we are going to look at how to Edit them! Add and Remove objects from a Group This is one of the most commonly used tool for Groups since there is always something that we want to add or remove… To Add objects … Read more
Have you ever tried to modify multiple objects together and still have the option to edit those individually? Of course, you have and the solution most likely was making a Block. AutoCAD can do that differently by using GROUPS! How are Groups different than Blocks? Using Groups we can edit the grouped object and that … Read more