AutoCAD Tutorials

AutoCAD Tutorials

Welcome to The CAD Setter Out’s AutoCAD page!

I belive passionatly that your choice of CAD software should not be a hindrance to producing great quality drawings.

The CAD Setter out - AutoCAD

Whilst I am a big fan of Parametric modellers like Revit and Autodesk Inventor, I acknowledge that for the majority of us the bread and butter CAD drafting  tool is AutoCAD. I set up the CAD Setter Out Blog to share the tips & tricks that I have picked up over the years that have helped me to produce great quality, accurate AutoCAD drawings on time, every time.

Finding the AutoCAD tutorial you need.

All of my AutoCAD posts are gathered under the category called AutoCAD Tutorials.

To help you find what you are looking for, I have further broken this down using post tags:

  • AutoCAD Create - How to create your geometry quickly and efficiently, Including Lines, Arcs, Circles, Polylines and Splines as well as more complex objects such as Layers, Groups, Blocks and Xref’s.
  • AutoCAD Edit - Nobody ever gets to draw something just once! It is important to create your AutoCAD geometry with an eye to how you will edit it later. This section gives you plenty of productivity tips for editing geometry effectively, and optimizing your DWG files.
  • AutoCAD Document - For most CAD users the final ‘deliverable’ is a paper drawing. This section deals with setting up template files (including borders and title blocks) and includes page set ups, plotting and printing. This section also covers other outputs, including ‘electronic’ drawings like PDF or DWF and outputting CAD data to CNC.
  • AutoCAD Productivity - Work smarter, not harder! It is always important to put quality first, however once you are producing great drawings you will want to know how to achieve the same quality with less picks and less clicks.
  • AutoCAD Customization - CAD management, automation, programming or simply personalizing AutoCAD to get it how you like it, you will find it all here.
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Latest AutoCAD posts

How to increase your productivity with the AutoCAD properties palette.

The AutoCAD Properties palette - Select all

My absolute, tip-top, number one productivity tip for editing geometry in AutoCAD is to use the Properties palette.

AutoCAD Layering productivity, never use the Layers pull down again!

The AutoCAD Layer productivity tools

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…

From CAD to CAM, Cleaning up 2D DWG files for CNC.

CAM Cartoon

If you work with a CNC programmer, or you are a CNC programmer! Here are a AutoCAD few tips and tools that you can use to clean up the 2D geometry in your DWG files ready to bring into you favourite CAM programming software.

How to optimize your AutoCAD DWG drawing files

The Autodesk DWG icon

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.

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