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Friday, 12 August 2011 12:28 |
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Level: REGULAR USER/INTERMEDIATE
OK, so here we are for Part 2 of Measuring Areas in AutoCAD 2012.
What I am going to show you is how to use the AREA command in AutoCAD and the good thing is that we already have polylines that have an area so there is no need to trace around the edges of rooms in the AREA command.
Always try and use polylines (POLYLINE) when drawing your floor and room areas. It is so much easier to work with and manipulate a polyline rather than a group of regular AutoCAD lines. Plus, you have the added advantage that polylines retain their area as xData, as mentioned in Part 1.
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Monday, 11 July 2011 16:23 |
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Level: REGULAR USER/INTERMEDIATE
I work in Facilities Management (FM) on a regular basis, often working with proprietary Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) systems such as FM:Systems and ARCHIBUS. Now these systems are great and do many things to build a CAFM inventory linked to your CAD drawings.
However, what I want to do here is start with the basics rather than teach you a whole new system.
Let’s do this piece by piece so that the theory goes in to the grey cells, right? :-)
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Friday, 21 January 2011 12:20 |
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OK, so you've just started using AutoCAD proper. You've just done your Learning AutoCAD course at your local Autodesk Authorised Training Centre (ATC) and you're ready to go.
Here's a kicker. Did they show you how to utilise the STARTUP variable to your advantage? Many training courses don't and leave you to use the Select template dialog box which is kind of confusing.
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Wednesday, 05 January 2011 12:50 |
First AutoCAD Quick Tip for 2011!
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you are all inspired and energised for the New Year! If you’re not, may I suggest some VERY strong coffee? It helps. ?
I was working for a client just before Christmas and we came across an issue that sometimes crops up in AutoCAD, especially if you are using third party drawings from another source.
The issue was that they could not find the scale they wanted to use; either as an annotation scale or a viewport scale. This applies across the board too (pardon the pun – geddit? Drawing board?). It really doesn’t matter if you are using an Imperial or Metric drawing, I am sure you have had this problem sometime in your AutoCAD career, right?
So, to rectify this, you need to use the SCALELISTEDIT command. In AutoCAD 2011, simply type in SCALELISTEDIT and press Enter. Or, if you are still using the Menu Bar, you can go to the Format pulldown and click on Scale List…
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Monday, 16 August 2010 21:20 |
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 This short CADucation video takes you though the AutoCAD settings that so you can check to make sure the AutoCAD Autosave file is configured. And if the worst happens how to recover the Autosave file either with the Recovery Manager or manually find and recover your drawing.
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