AutoCAD productivity tips

AutoCAD is a powerful computer-aided design (CAD) software that enables precise drafting, design, and modeling. Accelerate your designs in 2D or 3D with these productivity tips.

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Craft precise drafts, designs, and models with these curated productivity tips. Customize your AutoCAD toolbars and ribbons to speed up your workflows, learn the ins and outs of layer management, and work with objects like a seasoned expert. 

Get started with AutoCAD

Curated List17 tutorials
AutoCAD Quick Start Guide
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Customize your AutoCAD experience

Tutorial3 min.
Modifying the Quick Access Toolbar in AutoCAD
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Tutorial4 min.
The user interface in AutoCAD
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Tutorial3 min.
Modifying the ribbon panel in AutoCAD
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Manage layers

Tutorial2 min.
Use the Layer Properties Manager to display model and paper space layers
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Tutorial2 min.
Opening the LPM and widening columns
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Tutorial4 min.
Control the linetype assigned to a layer
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Work with objects

Tutorial2 min.
Select objects in AutoCAD
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Tutorial6 min.
Dimensioning in AutoCAD
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Tutorial2 min.
Specify dimension layer and create linear dimensions
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Tutorial4 min.
Use the annotation scaling tools
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Tutorial3 min.
Create an annotative dimension object
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Tutorial5 min.
Control available annotation scales
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Tutorial3 min.
Object Snap in AutoCAD
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Tutorial5 min.
Hatch objects in AutoCAD
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Create action macros

Tutorial1 min.
About the Action Recorder
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Tutorial2 min.
Use existing action macros
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Tutorial4 min.
Create simple action macros
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Explore tool palettes

Tutorial2 min.
About tool palettes
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Tutorial3 min.
Control the tool palettes display
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Tutorial2 min.
Use palette tools
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  • Industry:

    Architecture, General contractors, Structural contractors, Structural engineering, MEP engineering, MEP contractors, Finishing contractors

  • Outcomes:

    Accelerate Project Deployment, Improve Operational Cost Management, Improve Pipeline Performance, Improve Pipeline Flexibility and Scalability, Improve Pipeline Stability, Improve Plan to Actual Ratio, Improve Resource Planning, Increase Percentage of Successful Projects, Increase Workload Capacity

  • Capabilities:

    Architectural Conceptual Design, Architectural Modeling, Construction Administration, Data Interoperability, Design Automation (AEC), Design Collaboration, MEP Analysis, MEP Modeling