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While AutoCAD comes with a large variety of hatch patterns, you can also create your own. This feature has been around for many years. Hatch patterns are stored in files with a file extension of .pat. You can add your hatch to the default acad.pat or create your own .pat file. As always, don’t […] You probably have a shortcut to AutoCAD on your desktop. If you do, you can customize how that shortcut works. You can even create several shortcuts and tell them to open AutoCAD in different ways. This is called using command-line switches. First, select the shortcut and press Ctrl+C. Then press Ctrl+V to create a […] (For Releases 2004 and 2005) If you have custom menus that you have been using for inserting blocks, you know that creating and maintaining these menus is a major project. If you have a digitizing tablet, you may be using the Tablet 1 section of the tablet menu. If you change a block, you […] AutoCAD 2005 changed the COPY command so that it defaults to a multiple option, continuing to prompt you for more locations for your selected objects. On the other hand, the FILLET and CHAMFER commands now have a multiple option, but it isn’t the default. Would you like to change the COPY command back to […] As you probably know, you can add commands to a tool palette. Before AutoCAD 2007, you could only do this by choosing Tools > Customize > Tool Palettes to open the Customize dialog box. Then you could drag commands from toolbar buttons. Now, you can also drag commands from the Customize User Interface dialog […] Tharakesh of HOPE Technologies Ltd. in Mumbai, India submitted the following tip. When using the 3DORBIT command, the portion that you want to see may be hidden by another portion. In that case, before invoking the 3DORBIT command, select the object in which you are interested. Then 3DORBIT displays only the selected object. It’s cool! […] One of the awkward parts about 3D drawing is the fact that you need to constantly change the XY plane. In the past, the only way to do this was to create a new UCS using the UCS command. Since 2007, however, you can use the dynamic UCS feature, which makes the process of […] A common, but difficult task, is to create a threaded bolt. I recently got a request for more 3D tutorials, so here you go. This tutorial assumes an intermediate knowledge of AutoCAD. I rummaged around a box of miscellaneous junk and found this bolt. It’s about 3 inches long. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); […] |
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