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Your guide to the basic 42 commands you need to create 2D drawings using modern AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT.  This guide is a great place to get started if you just completed your initial training, or to refresh your memory if you only use AutoCAD occasionally. As you can see from the illustration, the 42 commands are grouped together according to types of activity. In addition, these groups are arranged sequentially to follow a typical workflow.  After you finish this guide, you can access the linked Help commands in each topic for more information, or you can return to the guide later to review specific topics. Also, try to find someone who will be able to answer your occasional questions. The product discussion groups (http://forums.autodesk.com/) and Autodesk blogs are good resources.  Basics  Review the basic ways to control AutoCAD.  Viewing  Pan and zoom in a drawing, and control the order of overlapping objects.  Geometry  Crea...

Ribbon started in AutoCAD 2009, a consolidated location for nearly all the AutoCAD tools in the form of easily recognizable buttons. A set of tabs delineates the different collections of tools by their purposes: creating and editing objects, adding notes and dimensions, sending the drawing to a printer or plotter, and so on. Do you know how to toggle the ribbon? Is there a shortcut for this? Yes it’s hidden =) some cad user it’s their secret, Nah. Here’s the tip: 1. If you’re using MENUBAR, turn it off like a switch (another smiley), type MENUBAR in your command line and set to 0 (zero). 2. Press ALT. The *KeyTips are displayed over each feature that is available in the current view. See image below. 3. Next to express tools tab, a two triangles and filleted rectangle. As displayed x2 is for minimize to panel titles, press alt x2 to go back in normal ribbon while x3 is to expand the options available for displaying ribbon. * “KeyTips” from Microsoft word function u...

In this tutorial, we will see a simple step to just How to Email and Publish an AutoCAD DWF file. One easy way is to export a DWF format using EXPORTDWF command and simply attached your DWF file to your email. Alternative way is clicking the icon red letter A, press the Export and choose DWF. By this time is a step how to email and publish a DWF file in one process. The workflow is simple. 1) Pick a DWG file, right click and choose Publish and Email options. DWG file automatically open. 2) Under Specify a DWF file dialog, type the file name of DWF file and click the “Select” for saving. 3) The next surprise is your default email you are using, with the attachment of DWF file. If your client has no viewer. There is a note inclusion in that email. “To view the attached DWF file, download the free Autodesk Design Review from < http://www.autodesk.com/designreview >DWF and Autodesk Design Review - the ideal way to accurately share designs with your team!” DWF file is a...

How to reconcile layers In this tutorial, we will see a simple step to just How to reconcile layers. Although it has nothing to do but sometimes we ignore this. Likewise our drawing has too many layers especially if we have Xref or external reference drawings. We still purge and audit, and it still appears in the lower right corner in your AutoCAD screen. See image below the yellow triangle with an exclamation point. Here is the flow: 1. Type” LA” without the quotes in your command line, under the layer properties manager, choose unreconciled new layers; in the middle column choose any layer with blue color highlight. 2. Then Ctrl+A, right click and choose reconcile layer. You will notice, the Unreconciled layers are compressed and under filter column all went to All Used Layers.