WEBINAR: 30 Productivity Tips and Tricks | AutoCAD

good afternoon and welcome back to build your AutoCAD IQ today we'll be talking about a few of our favorite things 30 productivity tips and tricks it's been a couple weeks since we've seen you so we're really excited to be back and really excited that you were able to join us here today our presenter for the day will be Volker cocoa I'm victorious Ted Leo be your moderator and we're also joined by Noman Mistura wala one of our expert elites Volker do you want to say a couple words about yourself before we get started yeah hello everybody welcome back for those who are returned attendees we missed you and for those who are joining us for the first time it's really great to see you here so my name is Volker cocoa I am a technical support specialist out of the lake oswego oregon office and prior to working for autodesk I worked for several years that's a drafter and CAD manager and after a while started working for resellers as a application engineer and I've been doing this since release 10 so that would be about 1991 I think and have thoroughly enjoyed working with AutoCAD and sharing whatever knowledge I can with others and gleaning as much knowledge that I can from others so thank you Thank You Volker I'm Victoria studly and also a technical support specialist supporting AutoCAD products I'm based in Manchester New Hampshire and I've been working in the architectural industry for a number of years at a series of Boston based architectural and engineering firms no mom why don't you say a few words about yourself and then we'll get on with the presentation no one are you there all right we'll move on until uh until he's able to get his headset working there okay so before we get started a couple of housekeeping things that we usually go over you can feel free to leave any questions that you have during the presentation in the chat window and we'll be there to answer you in chat or at the end if there's some time left over we'll be able to answer some of your questions out loud the session will be recorded and we'll be posting it on YouTube later on the build your AutoCAD IQ playlist that we've been updating throughout the year your links will be available either through the email through your registration or reminder through the post webinar survey and we'll post them in the chat window as well oops those will be links to the data set that we're using today the script and the PowerPoint you'll find those on our Fox account this is a series that we've been doing for a little while called the Autodesk help webinar series this is to build your AutoCAD IQ portion of that here are some of our most recent sessions that we've done a couple of the third dimension series materials matter and messing with methods a couple of the beyond the basics express tools and attributes and one of the back-to-basics building blocks you can find those again on the YouTube channel here if you download the slide deck you can just click right on the link here or you can see 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plain layer by object issue and the hatch intersection oh snap problem so if you have any of those issues or something's not right go ahead and install those service packs and hot fixes and hopefully that will help you out and as always we're putting this on from product support here and if you're having any kind of problem beyond this feel free to contact us and we'll be glad to help you out so this week's agenda includes tips and tricks oh wait actually I'm going to pause for a second and Volker has a few polls and actually why don't I why don't you go ahead and run the polls over it do you want to talk about them as you go okay yeah why don't why don't I run that run down those polls we've got three to begin here and the first one being is this your first Autodesk help webinar and typically just kind of like to see how many people have come back from previous webinars how many people are new just a con keeping track and making sure this is worthwhile for everybody and actually speaking of that will have a was this was worth your while pull at the end of the session so we would appreciate it if you'd stick around at the end and let us run that so it looks like about 23% of you are look here we go about 23% of you who are here for the first time so we welcome you we hope this will be a good experience for you and that you walk away with something oh let me go ahead and run the second one we also like to know hey which autocad-based patient do you use so it's a AutoCAD AutoCAD LT is it one of the verticals from architecture MEP is it AutoCAD maps of all 3d or or something else and at this time about 33% or AutoCAD LT 33% AutoCAD and that split between the verticals 1% being other I'm always kind of curious to know what that other is so just to give you a quick view of the results so got quite a mix of people here our webinars for what it's worth are there babe they're made to allow you to use the stuff we show you in any of the AutoCAD based applications and sometimes if those things are not available in AutoCAD LT we will let you know but for the most part everything we show is available for you to work with in AutoCAD AutoCAD LT in there near the verticals so our last poll before we start the demo is what is your preferred method for working with AutoCAD and it looks like well over 50% of you use the keyboard which that's great very it's my favorite way of inputting commands 26% used the ribbon 13% toolbars 3% pull-downs so quite a quite a mix I'm kind of surprised at the amount of keyboard users but I like hearing that I like seeing that it's very fast and the ribbon 26% you can't get away from it and it's so much better than it used to be so I actually use it quite often and there are a lot of tools available on the ribbon that you're not gonna find anywhere else so great thank you very much for that we'll go ahead and I'll go ahead and talk about the agenda real quick here Victoria so this is we called a Productivity tips and tricks' session and it's designed to show you tools that will allow you to maximize the productivity to avoid doing three things when you can do one thing to get things done and we definitely want precision in our drafting you know AutoCAD is precise to within 16 decimal places so there's no reason to have overlapping line work or under laps or things like that so we'll be touching on some functions to ensure that but primarily we're going to talk about some commands and functions and when I say that in it includes system variables that hey maybe you've forgotten them you know you've been around quite a while and you just for you know somebody who's shown you this you used to use it and just forgot all about it or if you don't know about it well you know you were never shown so we want to show you some of the things that AutoCAD can do that are not on the surface of the application so hopefully you'll walk away with something good out of this I always enjoy showing this because there's a lot of cool stuff some of it hey maybe you'll never use several of these tips and tricks but if there's one or two that end up being useful and help you out in your day-to-day drafting then it's certainly worthwhile so that's about it for the agenda this week except we'll have a demo obviously I'll go ahead and turn the presentation over to them Volker and you can jump right in sounds good thank you okay Victoria if you could let me know that you can see my AutoCAD you're good to go we can see your screen all right thank you okay so here we have AutoCAD and again this could be AutoCAD LT or one of the verticals and one of the first things that I like to do is and that I'll begin speaking about it's just in order to get things done you need to be able to see things or make use of the tools on the ribbon or the command line I would like to have about three or four lines of text available on the command line and since I'm going to be pointing out the command line quite often I'm going to go into options and show some of the things you can maybe aren't aware of maybe you just don't use them but for example I want you to be able to read the text that I'm seeing so I've just gone in two options gone to the display tab and selected fonts and I'll use the default font that that's available but I'll go ahead and increase its size and that way hopefully you'll be able to see the text a little better another thing that I like to show in this dialog is that oftentimes you may want to start AutoCAD with a prototype drawing that your company uses or something that you're always going to start a new drawing with or base an existing drawing that you base your new projects on and one way to do that is to go to the template settings of the files tab and selecting the little plus sign expands the tree branch in this window and it allows me to choose a file for my default file name for cue new what is cue new now I'll tell you since you asked this little icon right up here new button this is actually Q new and if I click on it it prompts me to select a template well by default it's whatever Imperial or metric whichever one I've been using as a default for my installation whatever my language is on my system but if I want it to be something like a CAD named plop styles template and I want that to always be the default I'm going to go into options going to files and I'll select template settings and then here all I have to do is print this or double click on that and then go to my folder where that template is and in this case I think what I'll do just to pick a different drawing it's going in to where my project is right now and we will select yeah and by the way don't ever ad-lib like I'm doing in front of an audience doesn't always work all right website selected my sheet set template this is why we don't ad-lib there we go cue new there we go all right yeah we'll just double click on none my apologies for those who have been with us this is called an awkward moment for those of you are new that's what's called for those who are with us well you know me by now here we go a cat named plot Stiles I'll double check that and every time I click that cue new but now click apply click OK it now just opens up without prompting me if I want to select a specific template I can always select new and I can get that dialogue back so just something to keep in mind now while I'm here one thing I like to do is make uses Microsoft programming I may have a project folder that I work with all the time and maybe I go back and forth between different folders but this is my primary one all right so in this case here my working folder is going to be where I have my webinar material okay and so I'm going to go this one right here there we go now I always want to have this here be my home folder whenever I start out again it's not really going to do that what I'm going to do is add it to my places bar this is the places bar so add current folder two places I'm going to go ahead and click cancel right now it'll prompt me to save this and the next time I use the open command depending on where I'm at I can quickly switch back and forth between different projects and you can remove these by right mouse clicking you can add another folder you can change the name of it and the properties you can also just reset this list you can add I believe it's five additional folders to this and some of the other ones you can delete but not all of them I tend to use this quite often while I'm here I'll go ahead and open up a drawing that we'll be working with okay we'll go back into options one more time here back in the day when I was drafting the for AutoCAD 2001 ever we hit enter at the command line or right mouse click right mouse clicking was the same as an enter it would repeat my last command or it would allow me to finish a command okay with the default settings right now whenever I use the right mouse button it's going to give me this menu okay I don't necessarily want to get rid of this because this does a lot for me so I'm going to go into options and what I'll do under that user preferences is select right click customization and I'm going to turn on time sensitive right click this default value of 250 milliseconds works great for me you may want to change it for more time or less time but I'm going to click apply apply ok and so now going into say the line command pick my second point I hit enter the right mouse button real quick-like and it has finished the command real quick like again and it repeats the command go a little bit slower on the right mouse click and I get the menu so a lot of functionality there if you haven't used that so right click customization alright so let's take a look at some of the other tools within AutoCAD and I am going to open up a tool palette which I've placed a bunch of commands on we'll talk about these here a little bit later as well and the first thing I'd like to talk about is just this in this view here I have a bunch of cubicles and we're always inserting blocks and we can use the insert from the ribbon we can also go ahead and use the insert command however we want to get to it but an easy way to just select a block that is already in a drawing it's to right mouse click and select add selected and that takes that block and allows me to just says okay you want to insert that block again there you go ad selected so if you haven't used that it's a pretty cool tool now when it comes to inserting blocks and I'm going to repeat this command right so ad selected we have our base point right there okay that is the insertion point for that block well what if I want to place this but I want the insertion point to maybe be at the back of the chair we could redefine the block okay but that wouldn't be good we could pick a spot to place this and then use the Move command to move it appropriately but reading the command line you'll see there's an option here base point and by selecting this or typing B I'll go ahead and type B notice how it's kind of placed the block temporarily here now I'm going to use my shift right mouse click to select quadrant and I'll pick the quadrant which is the back of this chair zoom in a little bit and now I can place the chair appropriately and so that way to change the base point now often times I may have a need for a block that looks identical to this and I won't say often but it's happened and I need to have the block but for maybe accounting purposes I need it to be a different name okay so we could certainly create a new block and then give it a different name basically building the same block again but there's a really easy way to do this by making a making basically a new block of this chair and I'm going to do this by right mouse clicking and selecting block editor which takes me into the be a block edit interface and here's a very cool thing that you're only going to find here and that is save block ads so in this case here the block itself I believe it's called F phone yes it is I'm going to go ahead and just call it phone and click OK I'll close the editor and in the property pallets let me go ahead and just select this block and you'll see the block name itself it's chair whoops we were working with phones here it is alright so here's my phone FM phone but I did a chair didn't I I am just having awkward moments today so let's insert a chair called a phone alright so anyway here's my chair it's called chair seven boy that was a bad one Victoria alright so Jaron let's go ahead and yeah we'll go ahead and do this we'll go ahead and select phone yeah there's my new phone that this is a designer phone okay it's made to emulate a chair that's right anyway so that's a quick way to rename an object so I guess I could have called it Fred for all that anybody cares all right although we do want to be a little more technical than that all right so I screwed up here right so we do have a command which is not found anywhere you have to type it in at the command line it's called Bree name I type that in and it shows me all the objects in my drawings so in this case here when I screwed up by calling that phone so we'll go ahead and select it and we'll give it a new name and we'll call it chair 22 just for grins I'll click on rename to click OK and we've now renamed that to something a little more appropriate so hopefully that helps alright so let's take a look at this we can get properties here in our of the object in our properties palette but what if we don't have it open what if we aren't like vocre where he has this open all the time I want to see what layer this is on well well do that of course is to go to the Home tab select the object and see what layer it's on that works great but what if I'm not on the Home tab I don't want to switch back there all the time I want this drop down to be available regardless of what tab I'm on in the ribbon so I'm going to right click right mouse click and add to quick access bar okay so now it's gonna be available regardless of what ribbon tab I map so that's a good little tip to know about right there and you can add just about any command in AutoCAD to this particular quick access toolbar now just right mouse click or excuse me selected the drop-down and selected more commands already so one more interface item a lot of times things get cluttered we want to see more of the drawing area you know technically most of us probably have more than one monitor nowadays but I work on a laptop and when I'm not connected to other monitors I will use a control 0 to give me the screen as clean screen or full screen mode and that really gets rid of everything except for the drawing itself so control 0 now there are other other ways to get to that there's a ribbon mic on there's a status bar icon for that I'm making you aware of where that this is that f1 to get to help will show you where all the other locations are for that alright so let's take a look at some text items alright so here this is the best example I could think of I used to work with wiring diagrams I always get very anal about text and so let's pretend this a wiring diagram let's pretend it's something else doesn't matter but you have aligned text here and maybe you got this from somebody else maybe you didn't do this and you need to maybe change the verbage okay so we'll call this 9 100 okay the text looks great but it's gone over my lion worked alright and that's of course because of the way it was justified now I could change the justification here and I will I would probably want it to be a middle right justification so that when I type that the text itself will always go to the left all right so in this case here I've done this and now I need to align it again and it looks great but that's a lot of work I've already have existing text here so let's go ahead and just I'll just do a little bit of modification here and I'm just going to put in some blurbs of text just to kind of show you where I'm going with this we have a and it's not found on the toolbar or ribbon it's been around I think since like AutoCAD 2005 and it's called text just to five texts and it prompts me to select my text object so I'm going to go ahead and do that and then it says okay what kind of justification do you want well just like this one here I want middle right so I'll select that and notice the justification how it's changed so now if I take this text and make some lengthy changes to it notice how it stays the way I want it to be so that there's justify text night if I have to clean up drawings or work with somebody else's work where I have to modify a lot of text I mean I typically tend to use this quite often hopefully it'll come in helpful for you as well right so while we're here we'll jump tracks and let's take a look at the Philip command or filet it's pretty close to lunchtime for me so we'll call it fillet there we go by default it's value is zero so I need to quickly place some end caps on this line work let's pretend it's not a wiring diagram well pretend is something else but just by keeping that well it doesn't even have to be a value of zero okay any value it doesn't matter it is going to create an end cap based on the diameter of the distance here so the diameter point of a circle so there's the Filat or fillet command again depending on your state of mind and how you can quickly do that already having done that let's talk about dimensioning for a moment and I'm just flying all over the place hey all of these tips that I'm showing you are going to be in the script that you can download and they're just little segments that show you how to walk through these and that way you won't get left behind okay let's go ahead and switch over to this this is your standard dimension and AutoCAD it just a linear dimension and what I want to get specific about here it's the arrowhead when we go into the and I'll do this from the ribbon I could type D at the command line if I wanted to when we go into this dialogue here and we take a look at our let's go to standard modifying we have our choice of arrowheads and there's a few but you're still kind of limited right you'll see that we have a user arrow item down here and what I've done is I have created a user-defined arrow and in this air I fell flop okay just I couldn't think of a good name all right but basically what I've done is assigned that to a dimension style that style is this style right here and I'm going to go ahead and just select this and in my properties palette I'm going to change the arrow whoops let's do it this way instead let's go ahead and change the dimension style that's what I wanted to do from standard to grooving all right oh I never assigned the arrow head to it let's go into that style yeah that figures and it's my arrow head - it looks like okay click close and there we go so I'm not an artist or anything but by creating this arrow I can give my drawing a unique look and I know architects are gonna love knowing how to do this alright so what I've done is in this drawing which will be available to you I've just put a little note here if you want to create an arrowhead of your own a unique one it needs to be one unit in length okay just do it in the default AutoCAD drawing and the insertion point should be on the right side the block does need to exist within the current drawing so the best thing to do is maybe add that block to your template file okay but then you can have your own unique little Arrowhead like so hopefully that will be of use to somebody all right let's see okay we've got time left here so and we have a lot of tips we're not going to be able to show 30 as advertised we actually have closer to 50 for you and they like I said they are available in the in the script alright so let's take a look right now have some drafting tools and as we do that I'm gonna talk about one of my favorite system variables which is also a shortcut to getting things done so oftentimes whenever you need to change your running old stamps you would go into the Osnap dialog and I think it's one of these but that's object snap tracking now there it is alright so here we can go in here and we can change our Oh snaps cat 2016 introduced geometric Center and I can change that here which I just did my preferences for everyday worker endpoint midpoint center and node sometimes I need geometric Center and having said that note where it's at right now so I'm going to type in a system variable Oz mode and you'll see that its value is 10 31 now I can remember that I know that my favorite is 15 and if I go back into that Osen have setting dialog you'll see it's endpoint midpoint Center and node I could select geometric Center here or I can quickly type pause mode and do 10 39 and that gives me those listen so if there's some settings you go back and forth to all the time then remember the Oz mode system variable and you're going I gotta go in this dialog every time to see what the numbers are no I'm glad you asked you don't have to you can just type in oz mode and like anything else in AutoCAD hit f1 whoops that should have taken us there it didn't so another awkward moment just gonna type Oz mode and here are all the values and basically 1039 equals endpoint one midpoint too so that's three and then we have node which is 3 plus 8 is 11 I also have Center selected so that's 15 that's my oh snap and then we add 1024 that gives us 10 39 so sorry about the math all right but Ozma a very quick way to do things so having said that with 2016 we were given the ability to find the center point of a circle so typically I type this stuff in all right so notice as I have this closed object here that it's given me a node close snap for the centroid of this rectangle and that's that's great so let's do that again so now I've got the exact center of that but what if you're running 2015 or even earlier or just for grins and let's be destructive I'll explode this what if we have something like this where it's not a closed object and I want to place a point something in the centroid of this all right well that's where we have object tracking and f11 is what we use for that and I have my midpoint Osnap selected I'm gonna just right mouse click and select circle and what I'll do is I'm gonna reference the midpoint all I'm doing is hovering over this point okay next a little tracking marker and I can remove that just by hovering over it again I'm gonna go ahead and just grab that point I'm gonna grab the midpoint of this and it allows me to place a circle based upon those points all right so I mean that wasn't exact center of these two both of these so what I'm showing you here is how you can reference points and if you don't have that centroid both snap you can easily do it using Oh track and the appropriate oh snap as well as Osmo again these things are in this script so if I went too fast well I tend to do that at times alright but it's there so let me look through my list here what else we can squeeze in I have too many to show you so I want to make sure I show you the right stuff okay got a bunch of stuff in this drawing do I all right so let's kind of zoom in on this view right here and I'm gonna go ahead and take this and I'm just gonna erase everything and I'll just go ahead and put in hours and hours of design work okay yeah that took hours right I'd be fired so quick all right and then I realize where the boss comes by maybe and says hey would you get rid of all that other stuff or we need it so we could undo this right but then what happens all the work I just put in disappears no oops I I really blew it and that is how we fix this we type in oops all right if you are from with that whoops is likened unto you but in what it does it brings back the previous selection set of objects which were erased this has to be done the last in the same session and you cannot have done and undo in the meantime okay so it remains in the buffer until you erase something else or you do an undo or closed AutoCAD and start it up obviously so that is the UPS function again there's no ribbon command for this there's no toolbar I item you have to type that yeah all right let's take a look at another command that actually needs to be typed in so here's a wiring diagram it was sent to me okay I didn't do this I didn't screw up no way it was sent to me and it's like so crooked so I want to fix this now I could redraw those lines I you know or any variation on straightening it out right instead what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn on my ortho which I believe is f8 yes good and that of course forces me to draw line work in a horizontal or vertical fashion okay that's not what I want to do though what I'm gonna do is use a command it used to be around you can have it to your menus your ribbon whatever it's called change that's right we want to change these objects I'm gonna go ahead and select the line work and if that's okay do you want to change the point or the properties well properties is your line weight line color etc I don't want to do any of that I just want to change the point I've turned on ortho I'm going to go ahead and just pick a point somewhere to the right of this and the ortho forces the line work to be straight and I've told it hey this is where I want you to straighten out - and that is the change command and so in my drafting days I've used this maybe twice okay but you know if you don't know about it you'll never ever use it and maybe you won't but you know it's there and you can show it to your friends amaze your family get the dog excited whatever you want to do all right so let's take a look at some other cool functions here so one thing I like to do is create a scratch pad out of my tool palettes alright so what do I mean by that well here I've basically added some commands to this palette but what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new palette and we'll just call it project one it's the name of the project that I'm working on for another company and that company has sent me some sample work and I need to base create a new drawing based on the standards that they use well you know I don't know the name of their chairs or their telephone blocks or cubical blocks or what what layer they're on okay frankly I don't care I don't even care about what textile they're using because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and pick and I'm going to drag this over to my pallet and it puts that chair on that pallet right mouse clicking it also has the layer properties of that chair now obviously this is not the layer that chair is on but it's my current layer okay so in this case I do need to change that to whoops need to scroll down sorry about that color layer chair it's okay it's on layer chairs all right we're good colors by layer we're dead thought I screwed up I didn't I didn't mean to confuse you either though it has assigned to by layer color layer chairs to this object here if I select line work okay these are their walls cool alright or they're inside cubicle walls okay so I'm gonna go ahead and drag and drop that notice it says polyline if I go into properties here it has this option to use the flyout it doesn't have anything for the name so I'm going to put a cubicle wall project one standard whatever I could add more to that but I'm gonna say hey don't use a flyout I want to whoops I do need to keep that on there for a moment I want to use the line command so I'm going to uncheck these here the other options these are all line type of objects but I only want the line work because I'm not gonna do polylines in this one here and so having done that I'm gonna say do not use a flyout we're using layer panels and color by layer click OK so I'm just gonna add those two just you get two different ideas of what I'm doing here you can do the same thing with text I'm going to switch over to a blank drawing here and as I insert this block notice how it has a color of cyan this was a start from scratch drawing and I should have showed this initially but it has now had a chairs layer to that drawing and if I draw a cubicle wall again I'm going to go ahead and just start drawing f10 on alright you'll see that we now have a layer in here called panels so basically like I said I could care less what their standards are I'm just gonna grab this stuff create a quick palette and then I can draw in a my own drawing or maybe maybe it has my standards if that's the case maybe I might want to go in here and change the properties to whatever layer that I would use in my standards so hope that makes sense alright getting back to this drawing you've seen how I quickly went from one view in the drawing to another okay so this is for those who aren't familiar with it there's a command called view okay and I think it's this one I never used these no that's my name views yeah you know I forget where on the ribbon i apologize i type envy okay that gives me my view manager and basically these are views that i've saved in the drawing and what a view is it's just a snapshot of the location that I'm currently in right now you could even fly to this view there's an option for that in the plot dialog and actually I'll go ahead and show you that real quick so right here I could say look go ahead and plot my view cubicle so very cool thing to know about if you haven't but I use them a lot just to get around you know back and forth in a drawing and what I do is I will quickly create a view so this one here right now it's called J text I think it is but I'll do something like this instead of going into the view manager - V okay that's the shortcut the alias for the command line version of the view command then I'll type save and I'll call this V 22y I'm not sure why I picked that doesn't matter and now go to this view here and I can quickly type - V enter our enter V - to enter and it takes me back so if you're in a very large drawing this could be very helpful so I'll make this palette available to you guys as well in the data set and basically if we take a look at the properties all I've done is I've used a command and I've added a statement in here to cancel out of any other command and then start the view command and switch to that particular view so you can import the palette into your AutoCAD and and or not I mean it's up to you I'll leave it up to you so we are running short on time I do want to take Q&A the a lot more stuff I'd love to show you guys I tend to talk too much all this stuff just you know excites me and keeps me up all night so again all this will be available to you in in the data set within about half an hour of the prep end of the presentation having said all that let's before we take Q&A and everything I do want to just run one quick poll and I wish I could have shown you more one hour goes by so quick so did you learn something new today so we have or 2% no 1% now okay 2% no all right we're moving up on the nose 3 nose 3% I should say well and I am sorry if you didn't 4% know now okay better stop that before I get 99% know what we have so far and I do apologize if for wasting anybody's time if you didn't learn anything and I'm hoping that the script will definitely have some tips and tricks in there that will make have made this worthwhile for you so I'll turn that back over to Victoria and thank you Volker no answer questions all right let me let me just run through the end of the PowerPoint presentation here a couple of extra things we have some additional resources there's a link to the Autodesk knowledge Network community Lynne Ellen's vlog as well as her 2016 tips and tricks booklet a link to autodesk university 2015 which has all sorts of free classes that you can take you just need to create yourself a user ID and let's see oh this one's really useful the AutoCAD 2016 shortcut key reference I actually have one of these pinned up on my wall it's helpful and then some Autodesk blogs so in about a month in November we'll be doing another session and we've got a lot of questions about this we actually have one in the chat window today asking about dynamic blocks so if you join us on November 5th we will oh sorry we'll do a beyond the basics session another look at dynamic blocks and hopefully answer some of the questions that you have about them there now you can visit autodesk.com slash help - webinars to register if you're not registered already and if you'd like to leave feedback about the webinars go ahead and download the slide presentation and click on this URL here or copy it down real quick right now and we would love to hear from you again this is our Autodesk help webinar series you can check out our landing page if you'd like to see what we've got available for other products or other languages you can leave questions after the presentation by going to that link there or you can find that in your email the webinar reminder you can also leave us feedback on the current webinar or if you have ideas for future webinars that you'd like to see done please send us your feedback to Autodesk helped out webinars at Autodesk comm make sure that you put build your AutoCAD IQ in the subject line and will come right to us and we'll consider it for a future webinar all right now right into the questions and answers we've got a couple of minutes here for that so Volker I'll turn the screen back over to you just in case you need AutoCAD okay and I just want to say that we do have in our previous webinars a couple of other productivity tips and tricks' webinars so the recordings are available on our YouTube channel as well as some on macro customization and I believe working with views but another one on tool palettes so some good stuff there did we have any questions we do have a couple I'll start with one that I can answer very quickly do we have any sessions on AutoCAD MEP or Revit MEP we don't yet but if you would like to see them send us that feedback and we'd like to know how much interest there is and seeing some of the for AutoCAD verticals or other product stuff all right so specifically for today's webinar let's see can you copy views between drawings so the saved views that you had there Volker can you copy those between drawings hmm I don't like not tried it I don't I don't think you can you could import that drawing as a block so use the insert command make sure to explode and it would bring those views in with it there's no way that I can think of to copy yeah the second the second half of statement was or do you still have to program it so it sounds like yes but it I don't like a really good idea for the beta and that or do a little bit of customization like this and it doesn't take much you can just copy copy copy this is nothing but to use this palette you know so you create a palette specific to the tools you need and make a few minor modifications or edit tear cui if you're into customizing okay how do you identify overlapping lines on top of one another so if you've got two or three lion-o's yeah yeah there's a good way easy way built right into AutoCAD to do that it is got to find it here it is selection cycling is was called there is selection cycling some previous releases you see this on this taskbar already built with 2015 it may not be a and abled right off the bat you could also type in selection cycling so if I draw another line over this one you know obviously I can't see that it's there okay I would notice once I plot because they were probably plot a little heavier but as soon as I turn on selection cycling you'll see that little icon there the cursor badge but if I select the object you'll see that it allows me to select between the co-linear line work so that is selection cycling good question okay I'm seeing a couple of comments about the views in sheet set manager sheets and manager does enable you to use views and then copy them around a little easier than just working in standalone drawing so that that is one option okay it's got a little bit of a learning curve but we do have a preview of an hour on it though so go check it out if that's something that you're interested in so I mean Here I am in paper space I'm so these type of views I can copy easily enough but the named views though that I don't know of any way to import or copy those ten others drawing all right we are at the top of the hour so why don't we wrap it up and we'll we'll see you guys next time thank you so much for joining us today go ahead welcome yeah I was gonna say the same thing we really really appreciate you guys being here for those who really didn't get a lot out of this we wish we could offered more but for those who did we're really glad you attended we hope you can put this to work don't forget to download the data set there are some good tips and tricks in there good stuff all around we appreciate your time we know I know it's short so and if this was some basic things that people were looking for more advanced stuff we do have the beyond the basics and the 3d webinar series as well we'll be picking those back up too so come back and join us again Andy thank you everybody hey great day

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Length: 60min 53sec (3653 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2015