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5 Must-Know Tricks to Create Layouts Faster in AutoCAD!

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Hey All,

Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a great week and are ready for a few days off to recharge.

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last email/video due to a last-minute surgery and then getting sick right after, but all is well and back to normal!!! And I’m excited to share this week’s video with you all.

In today’s video, I wanted to share a handful of answers/tricks to common questions that have come up recently in comments and in the CAD Support Private Discord (Learn more/Join Here), focusing on Layouts and Ways to speed up our drawing Production in AutoCAD.

We touch on the quickest ways to copy/reproduce layouts, tricks to automate text, how to use a block library/notes swipe file and more!

5 Must-Know Tricks to Create Layouts Faster in AutoCAD! – New Layouts, Copy Layouts & Automation

These tips are ones I talk about often and recommend to anyone looking to improve drawing production speed and simply streamline their layout workflows!

That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed this week’s email and I would love to hear what you think, do you have any Layout Tricks?
 
Be sure to let me know by hitting reply or on twitter @cadintentions ! 

As always, thank you so much for reading and watching, I am super excited for the rest of the year, growing the content, tutorials, and blog with you all. 

Cheers and happy Drafting!

PS. If you’d like to improve your AutoCAD/Design skills to get into working remotely with CAD, be sure to check out my highly rated and recommended AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows Course! to learn all of my favorite Tips/Tricks!

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

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5 Simple AutoCAD Tricks To Save You Time! – Must Know Productivity Hacks!

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Hey Everybody,

Brandon here back with a new post and I’m excited to get back to writing here and in general after a few months of focusing on the Youtube Channel and video tutorials.

Depending on when you’re reading this, you may have just finished enjoying the Long weekend (May Long) like myself. My family and I just took a relaxing camping trip with some friends where we were able to disconnect and really recharge while being away from the office and work.

Whether you happen to be coming back from a long weekend, vacation or just a day off, we’ve all had to deal with those short weeks.

Short weeks like those that we encounter with long weekends can be a blessing and a curse. In our industry, deadlines, and projects keep coming, and sometimes crunching a whole week of work into a shorter 4-day week can be the norm.

These crunch/rush periods of work are one of my main motivators to continually learn newer, faster, and more productive workflows when it comes to AutoCAD and design in general.

Being able to get more quality work done in a short period of time is a skill that can be improved with practice and learning. So with that in mind, let’s jump right into this week’s video, in it we take a look at 5 easy to remember, simple AutoCAD Tricks that will instantly help save you time in your short weeks!

 

5 Simple AutoCAD Tricks To Save You Time! – Must Know Productivity Hacks!

 

That’s all for today’s quick Autocad Tip, I hope you all were able to take something away from it and able to add a new tool to your CAD toolbox!

Be sure to subscribe and follow on Twitter @cadintentions to keep up to date and be the first to get updates on the newest videos, posts, and downloads.

As always, thank you so much for reading and watching, I am super excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.
Cheers and happy Drafting!

PS. In case you missed out or are interested in the brand new AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows Course, check it out here (Available for Instant Download NOW): https://gum.co/learnautocad

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/



3 AutoCAD Tricks to Search Layers, Styles, Blocks & More in Drawings! | 2 Minute Tuesday

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Hey Everybody,

Brandon here back with a new post for you all, this week we are taking a look at 3 easy ways to help speed up working with Layers in AutoCAD. Specifically, how to search for layers in AutoCAD, whether you need to find out which layer an object is on in an xref, searching for a specific layer in a busy/large drawing, and more!

In the video, I walk through how to use each method of finding layers, step by step. My favorite is probably using the wildcard trick to search for a specific layer in any drawing on your computer or server! The xlist command can also be a real life-saver, especially on a large drawing with many xrefs.

watch the video below to learn all about each method and see how to use them:

3 AutoCAD Tricks to Search Layers, Styles, Blocks & More in Drawings!

 

That’s all for today’s quick Autocad Tip, I hope you all were able to take something away from it and able to add a new tool to your CAD toolbox!

Be sure to subscribe and follow on Twitter @cadintentions to keep up to date and be the first to get updates on the newest videos, posts, and downloads.

As always, thank you so much for reading and watching, I am super excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.
Cheers and happy Drafting!

PS. In case you missed out or are interested in the brand new AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows Course, check it out here (Available for Instant Download NOW): https://gum.co/learnautocad

 

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/



AutoCAD Text Arrows/Leaders Tips, Tricks & Styles! Multi Leader Tutorial

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Hey Everybody,

Brandon here and this week we are looking at how to work with and use MultiLeaders or MLeaders in AutoCAD.

Whether you’re new to AutoCAD or just looking for a refresher, this video will help get you up to speed when adding arrows or leaders to our text.

If you’re unfamiliar, an MLeader is a piece of MText (Multi Line Text ie text that spans multiple lines in AutoCAD) that has a Leader (Line with an Arrow or other block at the end of it) and Arrow (or other shape) pointing to something in a drawing. MLeaders are typically used to callout or bring attention to a specific item, object or area of a drawing allowing additional detail to be added in the multiline text portion while accurately pointing to the specific object.

In today’s video, we walk through how to use and add an MLeader to a drawing along with how to choose and modify the various settings that go along with them. Everything from changing up the properties of the leader like the landing distance to adjusting the style, sizes, and much more!

We also get to try out a few cool tricks to keep your drawings looking organized and clean!

Master these great MultiLeader tricks to Save Time in AutoCAD. Draft faster and Smarter!

Check out: AutoCAD Text Arrows/Leaders Tips, Tricks & Styles! Multi Leader Tutorial | 2 Minute Tuesday

That’s all for today’s post, I hope you all were able to take something away from it and able to add a new tool to your CAD toolbox!

Be sure to subscribe and follow on Twitter @cadintentions to keep up to date and be the first to get updates on the newest videos, posts, and downloads.

As always, thank you so much for reading and watching, I am super excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.
Cheers and happy Drafting!

PS. In case you missed out or are interested in the brand new AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows Course, check it out here (Available for Instant Download NOW): https://gum.co/learnautocad

 

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/



AutoCAD Scaling Tips & Best Practices!

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Arguably one of the more confusing topics in AutoCAD to newer designers and those that learned prior to paper space/annotative text is scaling within AutoCAD.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve been asked about setting up scales, fixing viewports, annotative text, what size to draw things in model space, and so much more…

Today I wanted to share a few best practice tips when it comes to scale and designing in AutoCAD.

While there are always exceptions to every rule, if you can follow these tips, your drawings are going to be off to a great start!

 

This one is pretty straightforward but not always followed. It’s best practice to do all of your drawing and design work within model space in AutoCAD. (Learn about the difference between Model/Layout Spaces)

Layout tabs or paper space are there to create our drawings and model space is for our model and design.

Whether you’re doing floor plans, simple details, detailed design drawings, or schematics, there’s no reason or benefit to not use model space when drawing.

 

 

  • Only draw/ design at 1:1 scale aka real size.

Similar to the last tip, there’s no benefit or reason not to draw everything in AutoCAD at one-to-one or full scale.
You’re not going to run out of room and you can always adjust and change up the scale by using your viewports later on.

Doing all of your design work at one to one. Can eliminate issues later on, especially if someone else starts working on your drawings and doesn’t realize you’ve scaled things.
It can also eliminate issues and errors by accidentally scaling incorrectly, as well as make things easier when getting quantities, areas, etc.

 

 

To show different scales and areas of your design, use multiple viewports in your layouts to convey the different details required for your drawing.
Viewports allow you to easily show different areas or scales at any point and can be created quickly without the need to scale or redraw anything in your model space or design.

 

 

  • Use annotative text and dimensions when labeling your design.

These pieces of text and dimensions when set up properly will automatically adjust their size to be consistent across all of your drawings and viewports regardless of the scale of your viewport.
Annotative elements in AutoCAD are dynamic and will save you time and headache if you’re drawing size or scale ever needs to change down the road.

 

 

  • Add your Notes & Tables in Layouts


Depending on the drawing type and situation, tables (Dynamic Excel Table in AutoCAD), drawing lists (Make Dynamic Drawing Lists in AutoCAD) and general notes can be added directly to your layout tabs, this can help keep your model space from getting cluttered with a lot of notes. It can also make copying general note sheets and title sheets from another project easier since the text is already on them and not in model space.

 

 

That’s all for today’s post, I hope you all were able to take something away from it, and if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment or reach out on Twitter @cadintentions.

As always, thank you so much for reading, I am excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.

Cheers and happy Drafting!

PS. If you are looking to learn more about AutoCAD and jump start your learning, be sure to check out my AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows Course (Available for Instant Download NOW): https://gum.co/learnautocad
I’ve packed over 15 years of tips, tricks, and experience into easy to follow videos that I’m sure you will enjoy!

 


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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/



8 Must-know AutoCAD Viewport Tips & Tricks – How to Create, Scale, and Master Viewports! Examples

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Hey Everybody!

I hope your week is going well so far and you’ve been able to enjoy some of the nice weather lately!

Around here it’s been hot and luckily not too smoky from forest fires, and we have some rain in the forecast which is much needed.

A few weeks ago my family and I went out on a bit of an exploring mission to find a lake we had never been to and I happened to bring along my drone to get a few pictures.

 
After getting home and taking a look at them, I’m always amazed at how easy technology can make it to
get more information and data than we’ve ever had available for our designs or hobbies. In my case, I use a DJI Mini but there are so many different options that make getting images easy!

This brings me to the sponsor of today’s video as well as the topic of the video (viewports in AutoCAD) which we will touch on next.

Today’s video is sponsored by Plex Earth. Plex Earth allows you to instantly import recent and historical imagery, terrain data, and contours directly into our AutoCAD drawings. They even have the option to order and schedule a drone flight for your project area within the app if you need even more up-to-date imagery!

If you haven’t given Plex Earth a try yet, I highly recommend them. If you use the link down below, you can get a free trial of Plex earth pro for cad intentions viewers.
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Now let’s jump in, this week I wanted to dive deep into some of my favorite tips and tricks for Creating Viewports and working with them quickly!

As I’m sure you’re probably aware, viewports and layouts tend to be the most confusing and asked-about topics when it comes to AutoCAD or Civil 3d.

I completely understand the frustration and can sympathize with those that tend to just ignore or avoid using them entirely.

But after being a major part of AutoCAD/Civil 3D and the drawing creation process for years, I wanted to help and share today’s video where we walk through the process of creating a Site/Key plan drawing using multiple viewports and using a handful of must-know Viewport tips & tricks in the process!

By following these steps and using the commands and tips in the video, you’ll be able to easily create multiple viewports, understand the locking and unlocking of views, how to cycle between them, what to do if you get stuck in a viewport, and much more!

Don’t miss today’s video: 8 Must-know AutoCAD Viewport Tips & Tricks

That’s all for today, I hope you were able to take something away from the tutorial, and if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment or reach out on Twitter @cadintentions.

As always, thank you so much for reading, I am excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.

Cheers, and happy Drafting!

PS. If you liked today’s video or any of my videos/tutorials and you want to learn over 15 years of AutoCAD Tips & Tricks in a hurry, you can use this link to get my AutoCAD Fundamentals Course and join 100’s of members of the course, get started right now!


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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/