Have you just bought a new Apple Mac and it has shipped with macOS Mojave? Have you already upgraded your existing Mac, or wish to know if it is wise to upgrade to Mojave without affecting your AutoCAD Installation? Well, if any of these ring true you will be happy to know that AutoCAD 2018.2 …
Did you know that it is possible that you own the AutoCAD Mobile app and not know about it? AutoCAD Mobile can help streamline your workflows and processes by giving you the ability to view, create and modify AutoCAD DWG files on the move. What’s more, did you know that you get access to this …
Since the Windows 10 Creators Update release earlier this year we have had a number of customers talk to us regarding issues with AutoCAD leaving trails of geometry, windows, dialog boxes and more over the screen. This ghosting affect can be seen with any element of the graphics window, and take place both inside and …
Having been in the construction industry for some time I am no stranger to receiving PDFs in variable formats, scanned hand drawings, scanned scans, flattened autocad PDFs. AutoCAD is a great at using these PDFs as an underlay to be able to use the information or even if you want to check the PDFs scale …
Issue You want to create multiple layer state ‘themes’ that have different properties from the default layer properties, you want to be able to revert backward to the default properties and return to the custom themed properties quickly with one click. Solution It is possible, using the layer states manager, to create multiple layer states …
Sometimes using AutoCAD can be a blessing and a curse, from the get go sometimes things that you think should be simple can be quite difficult. One of these conundrums presents itself in the form of editing the length of a line. Lets say I want to edit a line and make a 1000mm line …
How can you display the layout tab name in the title block automatically? This is a question that has arisen many times during my career and it seems like it should be an obvious solution but due to the nature of the property many can’t find the answer. In this blog I will detail the …
Once you have created a Viewport and set its scale, it is normal to annotate the viewport with its scale and/or use an attribute in the border stating the scale. Using a field it is possible to automate this process. First create your drawing, layout and viewport and set it to a suitable scale, in …