This week I’m excited to share a new tutorial video that was really fun to make. I have always enjoyed modeling objects and parts in my spare time and in particular, things that I use a lot in my day-to-day life.
It’s always been fun for me to try and improve on the design of everyday objects as a way to improve my design skills and problem-solving in general.
In today’s video I wanted to share some insights into my process as we follow along with recreating a Dirt Bike Level as a 3d Model in Solidworks Online, including my thought process and methods along the way including measuring with a caliper, reasoning for improvements, and tips throughout the design process!
That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed this week’s video and I would love to hear what you think, have you tried SolidWorks Online Offerings?
Thank you to Solidworks for Supporting the Channel and Sponsoring today’s video!
I’ve really enjoyed how much they’ve packed into the apps and just how seamless it’s been to begin using the online design apps coming from the desktop!
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!
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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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Hey Everybody! I hope you’re ready for this weeks new video and post. In it we are taking a look at the hatch command and in particular, some of the most common issues and errors we encounter when hatching in AutoCAD.
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If you’ve used AutoCAD for any amount of time recently, I’m sure you have encountered any number of Hatching issues when trying to fill irregular or complicated shapes.
In today’s video, I wanted to take a look at some of the most common hatching issues & errors that you’ll encounter, and walk you through exactly how to fix them.
Whether you have unclosed areas or boundary issues with hatches, today’s video will help you solve them in just a few clicks!
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!
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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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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!
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!
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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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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:
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.
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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!
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/
I hope you’re having a great start to the week so far!
It’s been busy around here, projects are kicking off, there have been a ton of new videos on the channel, and Kid’s soccer/swimming lessons are both in full swing, making for packed weeks for the foreseeable future!
I’m also excited to share a bunch of new videos in the coming months where we’re learning new software and tips/tricks as well!
Today we’re going to be taking a look at a new Cloud/Online Offering from SolidWorks. It’s a browser-based CAD offering that is bringing SolidWorks remote!
I’ve long been a proponent of cloud and browser-based design platforms.
With more and more teams working remotely and in hybrid arrangements every year. Being able to get away from expensive modeling hardware, servers, file organization, and Network licenses not only provides huge cost savings, it also helps streamline the shift to distributed teams while maintaining collaboration through a project’s lifecycle.
In today’s video, the first of a SolidWorks series, we’re taking a look at some of my favorite features, cool tricks, insights and much more as we dive in and learn about the Software.
In the coming videos, we’ll be walking through the process of designing a project using the SolidWorks Online Apps and sharing my tips/tricks and tutorials along the way!
That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed this week’s video and I would love to hear what you think, have you tried SolidWorks Online Offerings?
I’ve really enjoyed how much they’ve packed into the apps and just how seamless it’s been to begin using the online design apps coming from the desktop!
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!
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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/
I hope you’re having a great week and things aren’t too busy for you as we enter the fall season.
Fall can typically be a bit of a crazy time of year in the AEC industry, lots of projects are in a rush to wrap up construction before winter, deadlines are typically looming for large design projects and year-end is just a few months away.
All of this can be tough to keep up with and stay organized, especially when you add in Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in the span of just a few months.
I’ve written in the past about some of my favorite ways to keep from getting overwhelmed and stay on track with deadlines, tasks, and deliverables.
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One of the tricks I use and talk about in the post above to help keep things organized and get the often many thoughts/distractions out of my head, is to make lists and notes in a notebook so I can check things off and not forget them!
I really am always keeping lists, whether it’s a simple work-to-do list, writing down questions & outlining potential video & post ideas, or just doodling in my notebook, I’ve always got one nearby and ready.
A few days ago I used it to track all the apps/software I used in a day, with the exception of #AutoCAD and #Civil3D which I use every day regardless.
I had recently been asked what apps I recommend and or needed to do my job as a Civil Designer and thought it would be a good idea to occasionally write down the ones I find the most helpful.
This was my list for the day:
Plex Earth: I’ve mentioned Plex Earth a bunch over the last few years and they’ve even sponsored some videos on the channel! But that doesn’t mean I don’t actually use their software, I have used it for years and still consistently use and recommend it for designers, especially anyone in Civil, Mining, or Environmental type work where up-to-date Imagery is a must. It makes it easy and fast to import ortho images, contours, and terrain data directly into AutoCAD or Civil 3d.
Global Mapper: Global Mapper is another must-have app/software that I find myself using more and more in recent months/years. Global mapper tends to be a jack of all trades when it comes to mapping data. Whether I need to work with Lidar (.las), Shapefiles (.shp), Raster images, Geotiffs, etc… you name it Global Mapper can likely open it. I typically use it to simply process overly large lidar surface data and huge image files. It makes it easy and simple to crop them down, merge them, and re-sample them to make my data work better and smoother in Civil 3d or Recap.
Discord: I feel like many of you will already know about Discord but if not, it’s a community chat/forum software with a ton of features! It’s kind of similar to Microsoft Teams but I like the ability to use it as a forum as well as for chat. My CAD Support forum is on Discord and it provides a great alternative for the water cooler type chat and questions that many of us who work remotely don’t have access to anymore. Keeping in touch with either friends or fellow colleagues is important for all of us, having someone to ask a quick question or even just see how their weekend was can greatly brighten our days and keep us from missing those connections from the office.
Autodesk Recap: This one doesn’t need much of an explainer, if you work with surfaces or reality capture scans in AutoCAD or any Autodesk software, then you’ll likely need/use recap at some point. It’s not perfect but it does help keep large data sets/scans moving smoothly, allowing us to clean them up and link them into our designs easily. Plus it’s fund and looks pretty cool to pan around a 3d Scan of a project site or building!
Audible & Spotify: I try to learn something new as often as possible. Whether it’s through reading, courses, videos or podcasts, it’s easy now to stay curious and engaged. Any tasks that are somewhat trivial or repetitive, as long as you can still complete the work while listening, I highly recommend listening to audiobooks (Audible is my go to, you can get a free trial now using my link here: https://amzn.to/3PCpN08) , podcasts or music. Not only does it help time go by quicker but I can also tend to get into a focused/flow-state and breeze through projects while also listening to my current Fiction Book or learning something new.
These are just some of my go-to daily apps, What are some of yours?
That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed this week’s post and I would love to hear what you think!
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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!
Brandon
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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/
