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
As we discussed in the previous post related to Civil 3D – How to find Closest Distance Between 2 Objects? there are a lot of great drafting tools that can improve our work. Create Outside boundary of Multiple objects For today’s post, we are going to look at a tool that automatically creates Polyline around the Outside … Read more
It is absolutely normal for us to add numbers in AutoCAD. Sometimes there are hundreds of numbers and if we have to renumber them (which happens very often) it is really a pain. For example, we have to number all the columns in a building, or we have to renumber the stations of road alignment. … Read more
Duplicate objects!? A lot of times we have some lines, polylines, arcs, etc. placed on top of each other. This is very irritating and often times we make mistakes by accidentally clicking on wrong object. These duplicate objects also make our drawings big, bulky and slow. So it would be great if we delete, rejoin … Read more
CAPITAL letter text? Today we are going to look at one really simple task – writing text in capital letters. There are many people who prefer writing text in drawings in capital letters. There are also people who like writing with small letters. Why do we even have to read about something like this we … Read more
How many times have you forgotten to send a referenced drawing, .ctb file, font or image? I personally a lot, of course after that there is an angry call from a client who can’t see the attached files or images. It is very depressing to make such a mistake especially for young professional. There is … Read more
Block or Xref what should we use? Blocks and Xrefs they look so similar if a person is new to AutoCAD. However, there are a lot of experienced users who are so used to blocks that they don’t even try to learn what a Xref is. The main difference between Block and Xref is that … Read more
Our journey across Xref possibilities continues with one little task many of drafters would neglect and won’t spend time to learn more about it, but I personally think it is important to know When and How to edit your referenced drawings. Of course as most of the things in AutoCAD, editing can be done in … Read more
In the previous post about Xrefs we talked about the definition of external references and what are they used for. Here we will learn how to properly attach an Xref and what are the different options. How to attach Xref? Before we attach drawing we need to have it, so in this example we will use … Read more
Set multiple properties of multiple objects to ByLayer with one command! Today we will look at one really interesting and very useful command that i recently found about. It’s called SetByLayer and what this command does is simply change Color, Linetype, Lineweight, Material and Transparency of all object you have selected to “ByLayer“. It really comes … Read more