Gil's CAD Clues

 

 Have you ever wanted to view your existing road in AutoCAD on Google Street View? Our friends at c3dk.com have created a LISP file that do...

Here is a quick tip on working with fields. If you leave fields blank you see this "----" in your print out, and if you just delet...

Occasionally I work with a lot of layers and a lot of xrefs and it gets pretty annoying when I am scrolling the the layer properties manager...

This little tool help you restore to your previous later status.  Very helpful when you have a large number of layers in you drawing. Comm...

No this is not a command that keeps your layers on ice, but one that freezes (turn off) the selected layer in the current view. Command:_L...

If you ever wanted trim and extend in the same command, you are able to do so by hold down the shift key to change trim to extend and vic v...

This is one of my favorite tools inside AutoCAD, I use it all the time in Civil 3D and if you are not using it on a daily basis then you sho...

This is a great tip I found just the other day, and I use it more then I use polyline. Command: _addseleced This command allows you to a...

  Drawing Tabs Drawing Tabs is an awesome app that places your open drawing in a tab like format that makes it simple to move from drawing ...

Autodesk has made a big updated to the Exchange App store.  You are now available to access and download all the applications from your w...

Press Ctrl+K to apply a hyperlink to any entity in your drawing.

Other then knowing all the  AutoCAD 2013 Key Features  in the new release, there are 3 things you need to know before installing your shiny ...

The time has come! Time to talk about AutoCAD 2013 and all the new cool features. Command Line Enhancements Yes they have changed the com...

Today, we are going to talk about how to make a block without creating another drawing to add to the random crap on your hard drive or serve...

In AutoCAD, if you hold shift and right click at the same time, a menu will show up with all Osnap options.  This is a great tool for snappi...

Ncopy is a simple but powerful tool that allows you to copy objects from a nested object (blocks and xrefs) in AutoCAD. Command:_ncopy O...

AutoCAD's big announcement was all about the Mac.  AutoCAD introduced us to AutoCAD 2012 for Mac, AutoCAD LT for Mac and AutoCAD WS...

The AutoCAD team is announcing something tomorrow.  No I don't know what it is, but we can find out on August 16th at 10am (PDT) on Face...

SketchBook (iOS and Android) App Store Android Market Buzzsaw Mobile  (iOS) Buzzsaw allows you to access and exchange b...