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Efficiency Meets Precision: A Guide to Ortho and Polar Modes in AutoCAD

In the world of AutoCAD, where precision is paramount, understanding and harnessing specific drafting modes can significantly elevate your design... February 6, 2024 · 3 min read

How to Convert Circle to Polyline in AutoCAD? (3 Simple Tricks!)

In this post, we are going to look at 3 Simple Ways to Convert Circle to Polyline. This can be very useful when drawing a complex geometry consisting of... November 23, 2021 · 2 min read

How to Edit Mline Styles and Draw Parallel Multi-Polylines with Ease!

Mlines in AutoCAD are quite a forgotten thing. In my practice, I see those objects rare, and when I do it tends to be very limited use. That is strange... August 31, 2021 · 4 min read

How to rotate 2D Drawings in AutoCAD!

Rotate the view of AutoCAD Drawing, but Why? Why would we need to rotate an AutoCAD Drawing? Well, I can think of a dozen of reasons just on top of my... January 7, 2020 · 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

What is the better choice Xref or Block in AutoCAD?

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... March 8, 2017 · 3 min read

Open or Edit In-place? How to edit our Referenced drawing?

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... March 4, 2017 · 5 min read

Additional EXTRAS with Xrefs! What options do we have?

We already know why Xrefs are so useful but let's take a deeper look at what additional Extras they offer. Layers First and one of my favourite "Extras"... February 28, 2017 · 3 min read

Xref - choosing our Path Type

We discussed What is Xref? Why should we use it? And learned First step of How to attach Xref? It is time to continue learning how to use Xrefs... February 24, 2017 · 2 min read

Xref Attach or Overly? What is the difference?

As we continue to tear apart those Xrefs we come across Reference type . As promised in Using Xref first step! How to attach Xref? we will look at two... February 20, 2017 · 2 min read

What is Xref? Why should we use it?

Since I am using Xrefs in almost every project I think that Xrefs deserve special attention, so in next few posts I will try to explain everything you... February 13, 2017 · 2 min read

Layer States, EASY Job! What is Layer States and how to use them?

In my opinion Layer States are a bit more complex and are used by people who already had some project done with AutoCAD. So let's dive deeper in our... February 10, 2017 · 2 min read