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Asked on June 26, 2020 in AutoCAD.
I think you might be referring to dynamic blocks. It’s a whole topic and I don’t think I’ll be able to do it justice with one answer, so you might be better off looking for some online video tutorials on that.
Alternatively, if you’ve drawn your beam outline as a rectangle or closed polyline and you’ve made sure that the endpoints of the centerline are on the midpoints of opposite edges of the beam, you can simply select both the outline and centerline and extend the said endpoints by clicking and extending them. Here’s a gif to help you visualize what I’m talking about.
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Asked on June 26, 2020 in AutoCAD.
I get this issue all the time, usually when I forget to plug in my laptop’s power source since that automatically means the machine goes into power-saving mode. If that doesn’t do it, I do a bunch of other workarounds:
- Close any other unused apps or windows I have in the background. You can check Task Manager to see what might be eating up your computer’s processing power.
- Clear up the drawing file by using the Purge and Overkill commands to delete any unused drawing elements or blocks
- Play around with hardware acceleration settings
- Cut my losses and start a new dwg file while only copying any necessary drawing elements from the old file
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Asked on June 26, 2020 in AutoCAD.
If you’re talking about converting PDF’s with raster images and want to stick with using AutoCAD’s native tools, you might have to settle for tracing over the raster images with your drafting tools. Otherwise, there are a bunch of reliable raster-to-vector conversion tools like Scan2CAD that might help make the process a bit easier to handle.
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Asked on June 17, 2020 in AutoCAD.
Question is a bit vague. But to put things in perspective, NASA’s website lists AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, and AutoCAD Mechanical as software that they use, so I think you should be fine using AutoCAD for hypothetical Mars structures.
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Asked on June 17, 2020 in AutoCAD.
Question is a bit vague. But to put things in perspective, NASA’s website lists AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, and AutoCAD Mechanical as software that they use, so I think you should be fine using AutoCAD for hypothetical Mars structures.
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Asked on June 17, 2020 in AutoCAD.
If you’re looking to get a headstart on learning these CAD programs, there are plenty of online video courses that should help. Personally, Lynda.com has a lot of helpful courses that taught me how to use Revit efficiently.
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Asked on June 17, 2020 in AutoCAD.
This might be an issue on scaling, you could try to check that first.
Additionally, this also might be an issue on your PDF encoder. Are you using third-party apps for that or are you saving the file as PDF natively on AutoCAD?
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Asked on June 11, 2020 in AutoCAD.
No issues in opening older version drawings on newer version software, but do note that there are some instances of AutoCAD products (Revit, for example) won’t let you save files as legacy versions (i.e. you can’t use “Save As” on Revit 2017 to save a .rvt file that 2016 can open). So in some cases, opening and saving a file on a newer version is kind of a one-way street.
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Asked on June 11, 2020 in CAD Computer Hardware.
I’ve found it easier to create a Solid fill hatching first and then edit the hatching later on.
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Asked on June 11, 2020 in AutoCAD.
Based on the drawing, the counterbore symbol should indicate the diameter of the counterbore that sits around the actual hole diameter and the down arrow indicates how deep the counterbore goes.
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