Title: Chapter 1
1AutoCAD Secrets Every User Should Know
- Chapter 1 AutoCAD Productivity
2Design Standards
- Draw Everything Actual Size
- Plans, Details, Even Long
- Parts
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3Design 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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4AutoCAD 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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5AutoCAD 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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6AutoCAD 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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7AutoCAD 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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8AutoCAD 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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9AutoCAD Best Practices
- Caution Moving or Renaming Files
- Hyperlinks
- XRefs
- Images
- Support files
- Templates
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10AutoCAD 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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11AutoCAD Best Practices
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12AutoCAD Best Practices
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13Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency - patterns
- Command-line commands
- Add a minus -LA or -LAYER
- Array at an angle
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14Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency - patterns
- Polar array
- Do as little work as possible
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15Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency
- BOUNDARY
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16Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency
- REGION and SUBTRACT
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17Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency
- Supplemental angles
- Relative polar tracking
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18Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency
- FILLET and CIRCLE TTR
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19Feature Review (All Releases)
- Text Justification
- TL, TC, TR, ML, MC, MR, BL, BC, BR?
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20Feature Review (All Releases)
- Quick Complex Area
- BOUNDARY --gtRegion
- SUBTRACT
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21Feature 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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22Feature Review (All Releases)
- Quick complex "linetype"
- MEASURE or DIVIDE
- Block option
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23Feature Review (All Releases)
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24Feature Review (All Releases)
- Some Great Express Tools
- TXT2MTXT
- FLATTEN
- MKSHP and MKLTYPE
- DIMRESSOC
- DIMEX and DIMIN
- SYSVDLG
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25Feature Review (All Releases)
- One More Great Express Tool
- OVERKILL
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26Feature Review (All Releases)
- Drawing Efficiency
- FILLET and CIRCLE TTR
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