For all of you perfectionists, who want to add something extra to your AutoCAD designs, there is a solution: Photoshop. In this two part tutorial, I will demonstrate how easy it is to setup AutoCAD plotter and then import your drawings into Photoshop. The first thing to do is to type Options in the command line. A pop up menu will appear. We then select Plot and Publish tab....

A very important part of any drawing is placing dimension lines, but this process must be done in a proper way. There are certain rules that has to be followed in order to highlight all the needed details to produce correct and easy to understand designs ready to be constructed. So, I am going to show you several common mistakes that are made in various situations and ways...

Let's say that we want to add text in our drawing. There is an easy way to create a new single line style and customise it until we are pleased. The first thing to do is to open our drawing and go to annotate on the ribbon menu. Figure 1 - Annotate Menu At the down right corner there is an arrow that opens the text style menu. Figure 2 - Text style menu At...

Figure 1 - Quick Selection icon Presenting a quick & effective way to select objects, blocks etc. in AutoCAD.   Quick selection is an underrated command that can save us time. Quick selection button can be found on the utilities menu, on the home tab. Let's say that we are working on the drawing like the one shown below. Figure 2 - Ground Floor As...

 The viewing commands can be accessed through the ribbon menu under View. Back & Forward is used to go to the previous and next selected view. By pressing the down arrow a floating menu appears displaying all the available viewing commands. Zoom Extents is used to zoom to all objects. Zoom Window is used to specify a rectangle. By specifying two opposite corners,...

Any location in a drawing has its unique coordinates (Cartesian or Polar System) and can be described in X, Y and Z coordinate values. Those values are shown at the left side of the drawing status bar. Cartesian & Polar System Cartesian co-ordinate system is the standard system that it is used in AutoCAD. In 2 dimension drawings the first value is expressed as the X...

The days of pen & paper belongs to the past. Nowdays designing by hand is replaced by the use of CAD programs (CAD stands for Computer Aided Programs). Mouse & keyboard are the tools in order to create new drawings. At this point I will demonstrate the mouse functions. Left click is used for selection purposes as for example we can select to draw a line from the toolbar....

Hello everyone, my name is Constantinos and I am a Civil Engineer. I love design, so I have decided to create this blog in order to share my passion & knowledge. This is my 1st post and I hope that you will enjoy and learn staff about design. If you have any comments, suggestions or anything else do not hesitate to contact me. So, with no further delay I welcome you...