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Title: Chapter 1


1
AutoCAD Secrets Every User Should Know
  • Chapter 1 AutoCAD Productivity

2
Design Standards
  • Draw Everything Actual Size
  • Plans, Details, Even Long
  • Parts

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3
Design Standards
  • Draw Existing Structures as- built, Not
    as-designed
  • Draw Mechanical Parts at MMC
  • Maximum Material Condition
  • 2D, 3D, AutoCAD, or any other
  • Use Logical Increments
  • Whole numbers, if possible
  • Match material sized

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4
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Use the Help System
  • Use Blocks Whenever Possible
  • Reduce file size
  • Update more efficiently
  • Maintain standards
  • Dont Override Dimensions
  • Use annotation tools 6X ltgt
  • Don't explode dimensions

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5
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Use Logical Layer Names
  • AIA standards
  • Office standards based on fields
  • Layer states/filters/wildcards
  • Set Properties BYLAYER
  • Don't set entity color/linetype
  • Turn off Properties toolbar

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6
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Use Drawing Tools
  • osnaps, otrack, tt, polar
  • m2p, par, per, ext
  • Plot From Layouts
  • 1. Geometry in Model Space
  • 2. Set up a layout
  • 3. Add annotations in viewports

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7
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Draw Perfectly
  • Somebody will assume you did
  • Quicker than drawing by eye
  • Set Text Height to 0
  • Auto-scaling in dimensions
  • Scale to Paper Space
  • Spacetrans
  • Use for different heights

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8
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Don't Use the Name Standard
  • Text, dimension, table
  • Defaults are wrong
  • May conflict for XRefs
  • Be Cautious with REFEDIT
  • Editing XRef
  • Prevent with XEDIT

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9
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Caution Moving or Renaming Files
  • Hyperlinks
  • XRefs
  • Images
  • Support files
  • Templates

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10
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Control Imperial and Metric
  • MEASUREMENT
  • 0 for Imperial
  • 1 for metric
  • ACAD.lin vs. ACADISO.lin
  • ADAD.pap vs. ACADISO.pat
  • Plot scale
  • Limits
  • Default dimstyle (both are wrong)

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11
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Learn to Use QSELECT

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12
AutoCAD Best Practices
  • Create Tool Palettes

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13
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency - patterns
  • Command-line commands
  • Add a minus -LA or -LAYER
  • Array at an angle

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14
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency - patterns
  • Polar array
  • Do as little work as possible

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Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency
  • BOUNDARY

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Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency
  • REGION and SUBTRACT

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Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency
  • Supplemental angles
  • Relative polar tracking

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Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency
  • FILLET and CIRCLE TTR

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Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Text Justification
  • TL, TC, TR, ML, MC, MR, BL, BC, BR?

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Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Quick Complex Area
  • BOUNDARY --gtRegion
  • SUBTRACT

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21
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Four Save Commands
  • SAVE
  • Default name and path stay the same
  • SAVEAS
  • Default name and path change
  • QSAVE
  • Saves only to default name and path
  • WBLOCK
  • Saves part of a drawing

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22
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Quick complex "linetype"
  • MEASURE or DIVIDE
  • Block option

22
23
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • RENAME with Wildcards

23
24
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Some Great Express Tools
  • TXT2MTXT
  • FLATTEN
  • MKSHP and MKLTYPE
  • DIMRESSOC
  • DIMEX and DIMIN
  • SYSVDLG

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25
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • One More Great Express Tool
  • OVERKILL

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26
Feature Review (All Releases)
  • Drawing Efficiency
  • FILLET and CIRCLE TTR

26
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