AutoCAD: Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Reduce size of DWG file in AutoCAD, optimize your drawing files. Large File Size Problem

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to decrease or lose weight of an AutoCAD DWG file, I am going to show you three methods to reduce the weight of the AutoCAD file. The first one is about the AutoCAD file version, the second is with the functions PURGE and AUDIT, and the last one is related to the elements of your AutoCAD file. The excessive weight of a DWG file can be caused by a large amount of data in a drawing that may be being used or not used, object types and complexity. It is possible that some drawings do not reduce their size much, while others may show a significant reduction.

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Find version of a DWG file or which version of AutoCAD was used to create it - check the version

In the present tutorial I am going to show you how to check the version of a dwg file or which version of AutoCAD was used to create it, for which there are two ways, one is with AutoCAD and another is opening it with a notepad when we do not have the AutoCAD installed. When you open an AutoCAD file, the AutoCAD version will be displayed on the command line. Another option is to open a DWG file in Notepad: the first six characters will reflect the DWG version, according to the following AC10xx code:
AC1015 = AutoCAD 2000
AC1018 = AutoCAD 2004
AC1021 = AutoCAD 2007
AC1024 = AutoCAD 2010
AC1027 = AutoCAD 2013
AC1032 = AutoCAD 2018

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Download and Install AutoCAD 2020 Free Educational software: Revit, Civil 3D, BIM and more

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to install any Autodesk software for free (AutoCAD, Inventor, Civil 3D, BIM, Map 3d, Architecture, etc) from Autodesk Education page with a three-year license. For this we have to enter the page that appears in the video and then we will go to select where we can see all the products to choose the software we want to install, and then select your account, then Autodesk provides you a serial number and a key for activate the product and it will give you several options, including installing directly or downloading the software in an executable file.

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Perform a Clean Uninstall AutoCAD or Autodesk products - files, registry keys, license remove

In the present tutorial I am going to show you how to perform a complete uninstall of AutoCAD, a clean uninstall, through which you will be able to delete all the files of the installation, this is useful when a file or registry of AutoCAD is failing and we do not it allows to reinstall with the normal uninstallation or we have some problems to reinstall and there is an old license that we cannot erase it or for some other problem that we need to reinstall AutoCAD or any Autodesk software product. This procedure includes manual deletion of some folders and also manual removal in the windows registry of your operating system.

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Draw lines with angles and distances only in AutoCAD with specific angle relative to another line

Sometimes we need to draw lines at an specific angle relative to another line to draw a path or a polygon, only with lengths and angles in AutoCAD, of some plan that someone provided us only with the description of these features, also you can apply this with drawings that only indicate directions and lengths.

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Drawing Crash Recovery AutoCAD file DWG .SV$ .BAK, Find Autosave or Backup File

You are working on a drawing in AutoCAD, which demanded a lot of hard work, and suddenly the PC turns off or crash or freeze, and you forgot save!, Wow! a huge problem ... but don’t worry, here is the solution.
AutoCAD has two types of autosave files: a backup file (*.bak) and autosave file (* .sv$). The bak is a file that always is generated as backup of dwg file (drawing, AutoCAD file) in the same folder where we saved. The sv$ is a temporary backup that is created in the temp folder found in the temp folder of your user’s files Windows, this sv$ saves us 100% of the content of the dwg file. These two backups, we can change to a dwg file of AutoCAD to open it, the bak file is easy, only you have to change its extension for example: floor_plan.bak to floor_plan.dwg, but the sv$ which has 100% of our work is somewhat more complicated, also in this tutorial I’m gonna show you how to create a folder to always have on hand the sv$ to change its extension and never lose our drawings and never be afraid of a fatal error or power outage.

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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Restoring the Classic Worskpace in AutoCAD 2015 with Toolbars

AutoCAD 2015 doesn't include a workspace for "AutoCAD Classic". If you want to get back your toolbars and classic workspace, you have 2 Options:
The first option and the easier method is by importing a file containing a User Interface Customization from AutoCAD 2014 with "AutoCAD Classic" workspace. If you don’t have one I’m gonna let you a link to download a CUIX file with the "AutoCAD Classic" workspace from AutoCAD 2014: Acad2014.cuix Link 1, Acad2014.cuix Link 2 or Acad2014.cuix Link 3

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