If you are creating AutoCAD drawings which contain a lot of geometry, I highly recommend that you concentrate on keeping your geometry organised as you go along. Using Polylines, Groups, Blocks, Xref’s and Layers will really help you to create and edit your geometry in an efficient fashion. In this post I want to concentrate…

If you’ve been following the CAD Setter Out for a while, you will know that I recommend keeping your geometry organised as you go along. Using Polylines, Groups, Blocks, Layers and Xref’s effectively will help you to work quickly with your drawings files. Working this way will also go some way to preventing your DWG files becoming bloated or corrupt.

If you’ve been working on a file for some time, and you’ve noticed AutoCAD slowing down, then it may be worth doing a bit of a clean up to help slim that drawing file down. This could also be necessary when dealing with files from third parties such as clients, suppliers or contractors.

If you use Autodesk Inventor, you probably got a seat of Autocad along with it. In fact – you probably got Autocad mechanical as well, But do you make use of it?

Autocad Mechanical is a ‘vertical’ product of Autocad. This means that the team at Autocad have written lots of useful extra tools aimed specifically at the Engineering drafter.

Autocad Mechanical has more or less been superseded by Autodesk Inventor. Autocad Mechanical is included with Autodesk Inventor largely to aid companies who are progressing from program to the other.

So if you are not making use of the Extras in Autocad Mechanical, how do you turn them off?