The CAD Geek Named Top-Rated Autodesk University 2021 Speaker
Donnie Gladfelter wins Top-Rated speaker award for his class AutoCAD Tips, Tricks, and the Most Dependable Drafting Techniques class at Autodesk University 2021.
Tag Tips & Tricks
Leveraging the AutoCAD Select Similar Command
Save time building selection sets within AutoCAD by leveraging the Select Similar command to quickly filter objects and calculate quantities.
Disable the Glowing Line Highlighting Effect inside AutoCAD
By default, when you select objects in AutoCAD, a blue glowing effect displays to indicate the selected state of an object. The glowing visual effect has been the default for many years now, but some AutoCAD veterans might recall the…
Distributing and Sharing eTransmit Transmittal Settings with your Team
With the many resource files necessary to display many AutoCAD drawings, sending your DWG files to an external consultant can prove to be a challenging endeavor. Of course this was the very reason Autodesk introduced the ETRANSMIT command to AutoCAD…
Converting External Reference Path Types with Action Macro’s
In my last blog post I wrote about the new External Reference tools you (probably) didn’t know about in AutoCAD 2014. As someone who uses external references nearly everyday, it goes without saying these new features are among my favorites…
The new External Reference tools you didn’t know about in AutoCAD 2014
Each new release of AutoCAD brings with it a number of significant enhancements. For instance the 2014 version introduces incredible tools such as Design Feed and Live Maps from Bing. As useful as these are, I oftentimes find the smaller,…
Hatching Open Areas in AutoCAD using a Gap Tolerance
Hatches help us assign context to specific elements of our plans by adding texture to what would otherwise be a flat engineering document. As the “paint bucket” tool of AutoCAD, inserting hatches isn’t especially difficult, however they do come with…
Automagically Manage Scale Callouts with Fields
Starting a new job, writing papers for the classes I’m presenting at AU, coupled with creating some exciting content as this year’s AU Virtual host has left very little time for blogging (in case you hadn’t noticed). Despite my rather…
Get Organized with Layer Filters – Part 1
Layers are great, but we’ve all encountered those drawings that are absolutely inundated with layers (sometimes by necessity, other times by ignorance). Whatever the reason, it doesn’t make locating that ONE layer any less arduous. Ironic as it may be,…
Maximize the Power of Page Setups by Importing
Continuing the topic of using Named Page Setups (started with my last post titled “Name That Page Setup and Win (Save) Money”) to help you more efficiently manage plotting I wanted to take a look at how you might implement…
Name That Page Setup and Win (Save) Money
AutoCAD provides an almost infinite number of possibilities when preparing a drawing for plotting. Setting up drawing to plot is like an artist making a reproduction of a painting; the two paintings will look very similar, but they’ll never look…
The X Factor – Placing text above and below dimension lines
Many veteran users already know this tip, as it has been around for a while now. Still, for the uninitiated figuring out how to get text both above and below a dimension line (without breaking the line) can quickly resemble…