Archive for March, 2009

Creating Regions by using Boundary Command

Regions are two-dimensional enclosed areas that have physical properties such as centroids or centers of mass. Two or more existing regions can be combine into a single, complex region to calculate an area.

Using Baseline Dimension

A multi-faceted object on your drawing, will consumed most of your time dimensioning it, if you don’t know the techniques, or the commands that can be use to dimension it continuosly and automatically.

Using Dimension Space

Dimension presentation is vital in a drawing, a drawing plans cannot be use if the dimension is not readable. Thats why it is important for us AutoCAD Drafters and Architects that we assure that, the dimensions are shown in a nice and in a readable way. But sometimes, in an unavoidable situation like rushing up yourself to finish your drawing and eventually making it to submission day. This is the time when your drawing presentation might suffer, specially the dimension presentation.

How to Add Breakline Symbol in Dimension Line

How to add a breakline symbol to a dimension line?, that’s the question. Sometimes in a AutoCAD Draftsman’s career, they will encounter such drawing that has an object that needs to be shown with breakline symbol in order to fit the drawing inside the drawing area. And ofcourse a drawing cannot be called as a working drawing if the drawing has no Annotations, Title, and specially if no Dimensions.

How to Change Dimension Text in AutoCAD

While doing some visitor tracking in this CAD blog, I came across with a search query “how to change dimension text” in this site’s referral url. Which makes me wonder, what does the searcher really need to know, when he/she makes that search. Is the searcher wants to change the Text content of the dimension or was he/she wants to change te properties of the text in the dimension?.

Yet Another Free CAD Downloads

For thirteen years as an AutoCAD Draftsman, AutoCAD from Autodesk is probably the only CAD software that I would say I had used mostly. Although sometimes, I got a chance to use the AutoCAD’s counterpart the Microstation by Bentley. But I only use the microstation rarely, that is why up to now I can’t say I am an advance user of microstation software.