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
Do you know What is Xref and Why should you use it? If you do, maybe once or twice you needed to add things to your external references. Or other times you had to copy objects from the current drawing to a Xref. Here we are going to look at different ways of copying/adding objects to Xrefs. … Read more
Are you having a strange problem with AutoCAD – it opens every drawing in new window creating a new program session? This is really annoying not only because it becomes hard to work with all those drawings, but all those AutoCAD sessions can slow down your Computer. Another problem that you might have is being … Read more