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,...