AutoCAD: Tutorials, Tips and Tricks: AutoCAD 2012

Showing posts with label AutoCAD 2012. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AutoCAD 2012. Show all posts

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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Open Save New Dialog Box Missing in AutoCAD, Doesn’t Display Windows - Filedia Command

If you have the problem that the File selection dialog boxes do not appear in AutoCAD and you can’t save or open your drawing. The solution is just to apply the command FILEDIA. At the command line, type filedia and set the system variable to 1. In this Video Tutorial I'm gonna show you how to fix the problem when does not display dialog boxes and you can’t save your drawing.

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Restore Menus Ribbon Toolbars Workspaces Settings Command Line in AutoCAD

Continuing with the tutorial of How to Restore Default Settings & Toolbars in AutoCAD, I’m gonna show you another way to restore menus, toolbars, workspaces in AutoCAD. First option is opening a CUIX file that stores user interface customization, with this we can restore menus, toolbars, workspaces, and other interface elements that comes with AutoCAD with Menu Command. Second option you can test with Ctrl+9 to show the command line and type “ribbon” to show the ribbon.
Another solution could be by selecting another workspace and then select again “Drafting & Annotation” workspace.

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Restore or Reset default menu, settings and toolbars in AutoCAD for Windows and Mac

Sometimes happens that we open our AutoCAD, and give us the surprise that we don’t have any toolbars or tabs on the Ribbon or Command Line, and we cannot begin or continue our drawing. In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to restore or reset settings to default, bars or tabs on the Ribbon by default in AutoCAD. To do this I have identified three solutions, the first is a new option for the newer versions of AutoCAD, the second is for most versions of AutoCAD and the third is related to a preventive way to restore your configuration with one in good condition. In the next part of the tutorial I’m gonna show you Another ways to restore menus, ribbon, toolbars, workspaces in AutoCAD.

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SOLUTION TO AUTOCAD FOR MAC: For AutoCAD 2014 for Mac SP1 and newer, hold down the Shift key while launching AutoCAD. Within the program (and for versions older than 2014), to reset the palettes, click the Window menu and choose Reset Palettes or enter RESETPALETTES on the command line. To reset the entire program:

Click Preferences under the AutoCAD menu.
Click the Application tab.
Click the button "Reset Application Options."
Click "Rest AutoCAD."

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Insert a Dynamic Block with Attributes in AutoCAD. Ex Dynamic Window

Continuing with the tutorial of how to create dynamic blocks with attributes in AutoCAD, I'll show you how to insert a dynamic block of a window with wide and high data attachment, automating the entry of data on the window's width, so if you change the length of the window, automatically change the length data of the block . This example can adapt to any of your needs.

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Create a Dynamic Block with Attributes in AutoCAD. Ex. Dynamic Door

You can use dynamic block with attributes to display certain changing properties of your block. Creating Dynamic Blocks with Attributes in your AutoCAD drawings, you can automate data entry and attach it to the block, such as the length of a window or door. In this video tutorial I will show you how to create a dynamic block of a door with a table of data by automating data entry of the door's length, so that if we change the length of the door automatically change the data length block. This example can adapt to any of your needs.

An attribute of a block is an information tag or label that is adhered to a block. It can be any type of information, for example, the plan title, numbers of rooms, equipment labels, etc.

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Create Blocks with Attributes in AutoCAD Ex. Section Cut Title

Continuing with the tutorial of How to Create Blocks with Attributes in AutoCAD. I will show you how to create a Section Cut Title. When you insert a block with attributes, the associated questions will be activated. The answers to these questions will display in the block to make easier to insert data to your plan.

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Create Blocks with Attributes in AutoCAD Ex. Plan Title Description

An AutoCAD drawing that insert to another AutoCAD drawing becomes a block. If we assign some attributes becomes a Block with Attributes. When you insert a block with attributes, the associated questions will be activated. The answers to these questions will display in the block to make easier to insert data to our plan.

In this video tutorial I will show you how to create Plan Title Description with a block with attributes.

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Monday, September 22, 2014

AutoCAD 360 Tutorial Free. How to Draw a House in AutoCAD format OnLine

In this Tutorial I will show you how to perform drawing of a house floor plan with AutoCAD 360 from the beginning, using AutoCAD 360 tools, from Internet, without installing anything. You can use AutoCAD through Internet, when you dont't have a computer with the installed program, or have a problem with your PC. With this video tutorial you will learn how to use AutoCAD 360 and AutoCAD WS (the previous version), which is still available and have more tools.

Download Sample Template Blocks (another link)

View AutoCAD 360 Command List Keyboard Shortcuts

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PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

Sunday, September 7, 2014

DWG Viewer & Print with Free Software, DWG to JPG PNG PDF Converter without AutoCAD

In the previous tutorial we learn about to view and convert online, in this tutorial I'll show you how to install in your PC and use the free software DWG Trueview (to download click here) to view and print AutoCAD files and convert DWG or DXF Files to PDF, JPG or PNG. We also show you several options about DWG Viewers and Converters Online.

DWG Viewers Online:
http://www.sharecad.org/en
http://gallery.proficad.com/tools/autocad-viewer.aspx

DWG a PDF, JPG or PNG Convertes OnLine:
http://www.zamzar.com/convert/dwg-to-pdf/
http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/document/DWG-to-PDF.html

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Saturday, September 6, 2014

DWG Viewer Free, DWG to JPG PNG PDF Converter OnLine, Plot or Print without AutoCAD

Sometimes we send or receive a DWG or DXF file, and the person who received does not have the AutoCAD software to open it, and there is often the urge to watch it. Now you will not have any problem to see an AutoCAD file even convert it to PDF or print/plot it, so that when you share it to anyone, the person who received will not have a problem to open it, watch it or review it. In the following video tutorial, I will show how to use the AutoCAD 360. It’s very easy and fast to use it and online. You don’t have to install anything.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Scale Objects with a Reference in AutoCAD, Fit to a Distance Blocks or Drawings

Often we downloaded AutoCAD blocks, for example a a door, and when you open the block, you notice that the scale is not right, then you want to scale it to a certain length.

In the examples that are in this video, I have a table block, a door block and a office drawing without scale. The reference length, you can type or take from some object with the length that you want to fit.

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Monday, September 1, 2014

Rotate Coordinate System X Y AutoCAD. Turn Drawing and Change UCS axes

When we have to make drawings with some rotated areas, sometimes could be a little difficult to complete our design or make changes because it almost always works with orthogonal lines. In the following tutorial I will show you how to rotate your drawing and turn the coordinate system XY of AutoCAD to work with rotated areas of our drawing without bowing our heads!.

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Scale Ojects on One Axis Only in AutoCAD, Scale Blocks with different factors in X and Y axes

Sometimes it is necessary to scale an object in single axis either lengthen or shorten proportionately, unfortunately there is a tool to do it directly, but if there is a procedure to perform this scaling. The following video tutorial will show you how to do it.

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Insert image into AutoCAD embed without external reference

Sometimes we insert an image in our AutoCAD drawing, saved and sent via email or USB memory and forget to attach the picture, and when we opened elsewhere no display image and we wished integrated image to our AutoCAD DWG drawing in a single file.

Well here I bring you the procedure to how to embed an image into AutoCAD so that you are embedded in our drawing and only carry one integrated file.

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How to convert PDF to DWG AutoCAD online free

Sometimes we recieve a PDF and we want edit it but we can't do it, is for this reason that in the market there are plenty of converters. In a previous tutorial taught with a free software. Now in this tutorial will show you how to convert PDF to DWG AutoCAD Free ONLINE, for editing.

To perform this conversion, first you go to convertpdftoautocad web page by clicking here, then watch the video tutorial:

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Convert PDF to AutoCAD - Free PDF to DWG converter

Many times we find AutoCAD drawings that are in PDF format, and we get frustrated because we can not edit it and we can not open it with AutoCAD to display and modify it, and the first solution we found on the internet is having to buy a converter program PDF to DWG to do the work automatically, then we find with surprise that the price of software is around $ 200 dollars, and say Waoww, it will cost so much to edit our little pdf drawing... Well, good luck, here I'll show you the free solution to perform this conversion, either PDF to DWG or PDF to DXF, and be able to open it without problems with AutoCAD. To perform this conversion, first you must download the Inkscape by clicking here, then watch the video tutorial, enjoy it.

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Change AutoCAD file version to any version 2015 2014 2013 2010 2007 2004 2000 Converter

Now you can open AutoCAD files from different versions to the version that you want, without installing anything. You can do this using the AutoCAD 360, you can save and upload to the cloud and download in any version including the very old version AutoCAD R14.

You can convert or transform to any version, for example AutoCAD 2015 to 2013 or AutoCAD 2012 to 2010, etc.

To perform this conversion must first enter to AutoCAD 360 by clicking here, then watch the video tutorial. Have a good day. regards

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