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7 Ways to Automate Your AutoCAD Template (opens the original)
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Build It Once. Use It Again and Again.One of the biggest changes in how I use AutoCAD after 20+ years isn’t really about a command or shortcut.It’s realizing how many things I shouldn’t be doing more than once.Early on, it’s easy to treat every new drawing like a blank canvas.Create some layers.Set up your text and dimensions.Make a layout.Find an old title block.Configure the plotter.Copy a north arrow from another project...Then do it all over again on the next job.Individually, none of those
Crutches, AutoCAD Automation & a Change of Plans (opens the original)
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A Slightly Different Week...You might have noticed there’s no new video from me this week, there’s a pretty good reason for it... I had ankle surgery last week.If you follow my substack notes you probably already know this, but for those who don’t I wanted to send out a quick update and still provide some helpful AutoCAD Tricks this week!After dealing with chronic instability and then an injury earlier this year that tore multiple ligaments and a tendon in my ankle. I finally had it repaired, wh
Stop Setting Up Every AutoCAD Drawing From Scratch (opens the original)
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Early in my CAD career, I remember working in offices where starting a new project sometimes felt like a scavenger hunt.Which drawing should I copy?Where’s the latest title block?Does anyone know which layers we’re supposed to use?Where did that north arrow come from?And why does this drawing have three different dimension styles?You’d eventually figure it out... usually by rolling your chair over to someone else’s cubicle and asking what they did on the last project.It worked.But it wasn’t exac
Better AutoCAD Data = Faster Design (opens the original)
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Better Data = Faster DesignA lot of CAD time and budget tends to get wasted before the actual design work even starts.I’ve worked on plenty of projects where the first few hours, days, or even weeks were spent doing things like:Tracing aerial imagery.Sourcing and cleaning up old city or gov data.Getting survey and creating site topography.Hunting down missing site information.Or trying to figure out whether the existing data was even accurate enough to use.The problem isn’t always how fast we ca
Automate AutoCAD Linework & Point Creation from LIDAR (opens the original)
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Stop Surveying the Same Site TwiceA while back, I was working on a project when we realized we needed one more piece of existing site information.Nothing major.Just a feature that hadn’t been picked up clearly enough during the original survey.The problem?The survey had been done weeks ago.Now something that might have taken a few minutes in the field turned into emails, digging through photos and notes, and in the end it needed another trip back to the site.Costing us money, and Time!If you’ve
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