Shhh, Hide me! How to Hide Parts of Drawing?

Hide parts of drawing AutoCAD

Hiding objects in AutoCAD Why would we want to hide something already drawn? Well, there are numerous times we need to hide parts of our drawing. Of course, the easy solution is to delete the objects, however, sometimes this is not a solution.For example: We have an image or pdf and we want to hide … Read more

How to Split Polyline into a number of Segments or at Intervals?

Split polylines into equal segments

Divide/Break Objects How to Split Polyline into equal segments? How to Divide a Line into 3 parts? Can I split a circle into for example 5 arcs? How to Break a Polyline into 3? Is it possible to Break a line at an interval? Today we are answering these and every other question related to … Read more

Bring Back Deleted Objects in AutoCAD!

The Problem It is a common problem to select and delete an object by accident and realize that the object is missing after you have done some more things on your drawing. Other situation would be if you have deleted something and after a little time you realize that it would be good to have your … Read more

Can’t Select More Than One Object (AutoCAD gone wild!)

Select objects is not working properly

Objects select is not working properly I bet everyone has had this problem. You are trying to select objects one by one, but oops, there is something wrong with selecting. Only the last object is selected. The other problem you might have is trying to deselect an object using shift + left click, but AutoCAD doesn’t … Read more

Total Length, Area, and Volume of Multiple Objects. EASY!

Get total length, area and volume of multiple objects!

Adding numbers I am sure everyone had this experience – Adding several numbers to get length summery of multiple polylines, or polyline and multiple lines, etc. Well, this is a really annoying task, but the worst part is that it consumes lots of our precious time. There is good news! AutoCAD community if full of … Read more

15 Shortcut Keys of AutoCAD, that will Accelerate your work!

15 shortcut keys for AutoCAD

Shortcut Keys for AutoCAD Working with shortcut keys is a certain way to accelerate our productivity. There are some widely known Shortcut keys like CTRL + C to copy, CTRL + V to paste, CTRL + Z for Redo and CTRL + S for save. Yet every software has some unique shortcuts that can also be … Read more

Coordinates of a Polyline in AutoCAD? But How and Why?

Export coordinates of polyline

Coordinates of polyline. Coordinates are one of the most important properties in our drawings. Unless you are an architect, architects don’t like coordinates, they usually work in orthogonal projection somewhere in drawing. However even if you are working in local system you can find this tip useful. As we previously dissguesed, polylines are very powerful … Read more

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