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

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... May 25, 2017 · 2 min read

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

Coordinates of polyline. Coordinates are one of the most important properties in our drawings. Unless you are an architect, architects don't like... May 20, 2017 · 2 min read

Edit Vertexes and use Linetype Polylines!

This will be a very short post about some really, really basic stuff. More especially how to edit our Polylines. Polyline A polyline is a connection of... May 15, 2017 · 2 min read

How to Copy Multiple Text Objects from AutoCAD to Excel

The task? Have you ever tried to copy AutoCAD text objects to Microsoft Excel? Usually, when you copy multiple text objects from AutoCAD and paste those... May 10, 2017 · 2 min read

Create Polyline around the Outside of Multiple Objects!

Building on our recent exploration of How to find Closest Distance Between 2 Objects? in Civil 3D, today's post takes us even deeper into the world of... May 5, 2017 · 1 min read

Create Separate Hatches Fast and Easy!

Separate hatches in AutoCAD? Everyone knows that! This week we had in our office some engineering students from Architectural University who wanted to see... April 30, 2017 · 1 min read

How to find Closest Distance Between 2 Objects in Civil 3D?

AutoCAD Civil 3D is handy and powerful software. Along with its great functionality related to road design, pipe design, vertical planing, etc., it... April 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Auto-Rotate Multiple text Objects!

Rotate manually? We have multiple text objects aligned to a specific object. However, when we go to layout rotate the view and our text is turned upside... April 20, 2017 · 1 min read

Auto-Number Multiple Text Objects!

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... April 15, 2017 · 2 min read

OVERKILL! Or how to erase duplicate objects Easy and Fast!

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 we make... April 10, 2017 · 2 min read

Automatic Block Count with 1 Click!

Bill of quantity We all have to take care of the quantity of different materials in our projects. After all, everyone's first concern is the price. This... April 5, 2017 · 2 min read

Civil 3D Guides

How to create Longitudinal Profile from Feature Line? Easy!

The Task! So what do we want to do? We want to create a longitudinal profile (Profile view and profile) from Feature line which we can use as a surface... March 30, 2017 · 2 min read