Cadtips

3 Cool tips picked up today would be the:

https://www.lynda.com/AutoCAD-tutorials/614-Creating-simple-block-palette/496946/622793-4.html

1. Dimensioning:
DIMSPACE: Allows one to align the offset of dim location to be based on one.

2. Insertion of Blocks
-first INSUNITS has to be set to 0 to allow for overwrite in options box
-in options box, set insertion units to mm

3. LineType Scale
-Note that setting the number in LTSCALE in command line is setting the global number.
-However, setting in properties box is only for that specific layer.

Cadtips#3_Basic Stuff

Shortcuts:
Refer to saved pdf that runs in default alphabetical order.
In folder: Improvement, cad

Starting Point:
Mouse over first at junction, drag cursor along, type in offset value and click.
First point of new line starts from this position

GridLine:
-right click at icon at bottom of panel.
-set separation distance & every module where bold line appears.
-enable easy snapping, eg 50mm, 100mm.. etc

Triming:
-Select all and click enter.
-trim at intersection points.
-drag area from left to right or right to left

Placing of doors:
-Have a master door, copy and paste in all 4 orientations.
-rotate set of 4 once.
-copy and paste from this master set accordingly.

Start Panel:
-can pin more commonly used object
-when click on learn, short cut tips and video for cad updates learning available.

Cadtips#2_AutoCad UCS

A post just for UCS.

1)Saving the UCS state that has been selected
-set ucs angle. type "ucs", "e", place cursor at desired angle, enter. "plan"

2)Type "UC" immediately,
-"un-named" will appear, right click renamed to desired name.enter

3)Type "view", view manager appears, click on new, and give the view with the new ucs a name. can be same as ucs or different.
-choose the ucs that matches this new view ( ucs state has to be saved in previous step)
-customise any other options

4)In model space, a quick way to switch between windows, is to left click on top left corner of current cad window called [Top]. click on custom model views, and saved view with model state of ucs appears.

Cadtips#1_ReallyGood AutoCad Tips

CleanUp Lines.
select All lines to make straight.
cad command line "change", make sure ortho and osnap is on.
mouse over intended line till "endpoint" appears, click on it, all rotates slightly.
only works for lines and not polylines

Copy and Paste Layouts & Block
DesignCenter "cltrl 2" or "dc"

Layout right click add works but drag and drop doesn't, careful layer states and attributes doesn't carry over,

LTGAPSELECTION
only for cad 2017, turn from 0-1, when drawing line it is able to snap to the gaps between.

Continuing from an existing drawing

- To use same layers:
- right click on layer, click add selected, and start drawing. works for linetype, text type.

-To use same blocks:
- "Cltr 3" Right Click start new palette, drag and drop blocks over to reuse them. by double clicking on them, one can also change the property

Multiple
just type it in "multiple", do not have to enter to
repeat the command. to come out of it, just esc.

Lengthen
-clicking on line tells you what is current length
-"Total" allows you to type in desired total , click on side to extend
-"Delta" is how much longer u want to object to be.
-"Percent" is how much reduction you want it so if one types in 25, it becomes 1/4 shorter.