Autocad 2012 Tips
There are also many autocad courses available online and even in many vocational schools who offers a one month or two months Autocad Courses; like for example in some countries like Philippines TESDA schools offers a 1 month course who also offer other short courses.
Autocad is easy. Everyone in the design and construction field could learn the basics just for one session of tutorial. And other tips everyone can learn it from the internet, in fact there are websites who offers a cad blocks that can be downloaded for free and others sell it for a very affordable prize. Autocad users need to have a cad library of their own, a more personalized and organized cad library for a faster and more efficient work results.
Some websites also gives Time-savers tips especially for the beginners.
Here are some of my time-savers tips for you:
1) SCALELISTEDIT - Plot, Page Setup, Vport toolbar, Properties, etc.
2) JOIN Command (Glue)
%u2022 works on plines, lines, arc, elliptical arcs and splines
%u2022 Use to turn an arc into a circle
3) LAYERFILTERALERT (Set to 3)
4) FILTERS command
5) PEDITACCEPT
6) IMAGEFRAME
7) JPGOUT, BMPOUT, PNGOUT, TIFOUT
8) OVERKILL
9) Control+R to cycle through all of your viewports
10) Control+A to select all the objects in your drawing
11) Control to cycle through objects
12) Tab to cycle through object snaps
13) Navigate through layouts with Control+PageUp and Control+PageDown
14) Hold down right mouse button to clear grips
15) Shift for more than one hot grip
16) Arrow up and down through commands
17) Control+Tab to cycle through open drawings
18) OSNAP Tracking to find the center of a box
19) M2P or MTP to find the midpoint between two points
20) Multiple Leaders
%u25CB Multiple segments
%u25CB Leading or trailing position on text
%u25CB Options for placement of leader with respect to text
21) MLEADERALIGN
22) MLEADERCOllECT
23) DIMBREAK
24) DIMJOGLINE
25) DIMSPACE
There are many ways to learn Autocad, the most important is Practice and learning techniques on how to use it more effectively for your design work. Its up to the users! We must agree Autocad is very helpful especially to us- Designers.
Time-saver Tips
First You must able to learn the basics. A little bit of exploration and familiarization of the software could be a great help to become a proficient autocad user. There are Autocad tutorials from different websites that are also very helpful for beginners and for those who have questions about the mechanics of the software. Listing and familiarization of the commands are the most important key if you want to finish more drawings and if you want to finish it fast.
