AutoCAD Tips

Here are some tips culled from the AUGI Forums by several different contributors...

There is so much to be learned on the Forums.

• Never, I repeat Never explode a dimension.
• Always check over a drawing before you click print. Save a forest.
• ALWAYS draw things to scale
• Do not Explode Attributes
• Do not place the border in Model Space
• Do not scale the border, larger or smaller, than 1:1
• Do not scale or rotate reference files
• Do not “plot to fit” when plotting a drawing. i.e., Plot 1 to 1 or 2 to1.
• Always have the Base point of a block set to 0,0,0
• Keep 2-D drawings 2-D!
• Zoom Extents before closing a file.
• Use MTEXT with word wrap
• Don't lock a layer and then save the drawing with it as the current layer