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AUGICON 24 Recorded Sessions Are Now Live

If you're an AUGI member who attended #AUGICON24, you should have received an email this morning containing instructions on how to access the video replays of our AUGICON 2024 event. You'll also be joining our new AUGI Community Platform! Not... Read more →

This Weeks Community Conversation Recordings and an Exciting Autodesk University 2022 Announcement

We are back from our annual July Summer break of live communty events. We held two Autodesk Community Conversation events this week, and have many more planned including next week. Below you can see the two sessions we held yesterday on AutoCAD and Dynamo and the recording of the sessions. We have Autodesk Community Conversations in-person Wednesday September 27 at Autodesk University 2022! Read more →

Upcoming Autodesk Community Conversations & Two Recordings

Community Conversations are virtual meetups featuring expert speakers from across Autodesk Community. Sessions range from deep dives, tips and tricks, and live demonstrations on products such as AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo, and Fusion 360, to roundtables on industry insights, emerging trends,... Read more →

Autodesk Community Conversation Recordings from Last Week

In case you weren't able to attend our two sessions last week, the recordings are now posted. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/community-conversations/how-to-make-dynamo-sing/ec-p/10715464#M253 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/community-conversations/going-mobile-with-autocad-with-shaun-bryant-part-3/ec-p/10715365#M251 While here thinking about this, RSVP for the December Autodesk Community Conversations. Read more →

AutoCAD Facebook Live Event - AutoCAD with Dan on Wednesday May 26, 2021

There will be a Facebook Live event with AutoCAD Team member Dan Kuhmann. Dan is a very knowledgeable member of the AutoCAD core product team as well as all around funny and nice human.Dan will be going over new features... Read more →

Top 10 AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Solutions 4/2/2021

Tiana is our awesome Autodesk Community Manager for AutoCAD, and recently posted this article showing the recent most popular AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT solutions. Top 10 AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Solutions | Autodesk Knowledge Articles Read more →

AutoCAD Facebook Live Event Wednesday May 5, 2021

Tomorrow on Facebook there will be a Facebook Live event with AutoCAD Team member Dan Kuhmann. Dan is a very knowledgeable member of the AutoCAD core product team as well as all around funny and nice human. Please join AutoCAD... Read more →

Ease the Pain of AutoCAD Workstation Configuration

This tip is from 2019 by Frank Mayfield, but super relevant today with the recent new releases of Autodesk products and most everyone using multiple products or managing multiple machines and users and needing an easier method to uninstall products... Read more →

AutoCAD Electrical and Dynamo in This Weeks Autodesk Community Conversations Events

Register now for this weeks two separate Autodesk Community Conversations. What are Community Conversations? Community Conversations provide opportunities for engineers, designers, artists, and makers to meet in a safe, live, virtual setting to share expertise, get to know leaders in... Read more →

GREAT AUTOCAD TIP – OOPs sorry for the ALL CAPS

This is an oldie, but a goodie to prevent the appearance of YELLING IN ALL CAPS. We use all capital letters in most CAD drawings for the readability of the text, and sometimes we get drawn away from AutoCAD to... Read more →

Free 100% DWG File Viewer that Includes Measure and Convert

The free Autodesk TrueView is built on the same core code as AutoCAD and as such has 100% DWG viewing and plotting like AutoCAD. It also has some really nice features besides just viewing a DWG file and that is... Read more →

Pizza Economics and AutoCAD Fields

I read a startling research item by Mashable that may not have been apparent to everyone. It wasn't apparent to all of us Autodeskers who have a long tradition with Beer Busts at special events and Autodesk University. There is... Read more →

Clean your AutoCAD DWG and Kill Zombies

Are you receiving bloated unruly DWG files from someone that are a suspected zombie apocalypse and walking dead? Here is a good solution good solution and timely for Halloween. Slay those zombies bloating your DWG files. “Ready to purge the... Read more →

The Best of Lynn Allen’s AutoCAD Tips & Tricks

For both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT For over 10 years, AutoCAD expert Lynn Allen has produced an annual collection of her top tips and tricks for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. This year, using feedback from AutoCAD users around the globe,... Read more →

AutoCAD Family Feud at Autodesk University 2016

Survey Says, Autodesk University 2016 will be a lot of Fun! I am really looking forward to this fun event at Autodesk University this year. I get to go against my good friend, colleague, and fellow Portlandia resident Lynn Allen... Read more →

AutoCAD 2017 Import PDF as Vectors

AutoCAD 2017 has added the ability to import a PDF as vector objects and not just as a raster PDF underlay added back in AutoCAD 2007. Customers have been asking for a longtime for this feature but there has been... Read more →

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Breaks the F Keys in AutoCAD

With the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update the F keys used for many important keyboard functions have been broken. Our teams have logged the issue with Microsoft for a resolution. Product Support will advise once the solution is provided. A... Read more →

Autodesk Answer Day is Tomorrow May 18th

If you have Autodesk product questions, we have answers. Join the big Autodesk answer day tomorrow online and speak with people from several Autodesk product teams. What: Autodesk Answer Day – You have questions, we’ve got answers! Date: May 18th,... Read more →

AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts

The speed at which you can use the keyboard (aside from a script or LISP) is still the fastest method in AutoCAD in my opinion. Knowing even just a few simple shortcuts will save you keystrokes and time. Here is... Read more →

AutoCAD 2016 XREFOVERRIDE

Here is a very handy change to AutoCAD 2016 made after customers requested the functionality to change properties of Layers in an AutoCAD XREF. When the AutoCAD System Variable XREFOVERRIDE is set to 1, you can change the Color, Linetype,... Read more →

OSNAP AutoCAD 2016 GeometricCenter

There was a change in AutoCAD 2016 with OSNAP. GeometricCenter is a new OSNAP type for centroid of closed polyline or spline. Thank you to AutoCAD Team member Tao Zheng for the heads up on this change. Read more →

Autodesk Answer Day May 7th 2015 - AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT

The Autodesk Answer Days series will start with members of the AutoCAD team and is free. Join the first AutoCAD Answer Day online event on Thursday, May 7th from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time. If you have AutoCAD... Read more →

AutoCAD 2016 Videos

A series of 11 videos in a showing the new features in the just released AutoCAD 2016 are now posted to YouTube as a playlist. If you are an Autodesk subscription customer you can download your AutoCAD 2016 today and... Read more →

Five AutoCAD Tips that you can learn in Five minutes

We all want to get more done in less time so that we can go home early, Sorry - so that we can concentrate on value added tasks, such as Designing or Engineering ;) The trouble is, experimenting with different... Read more →

Helpful AutoCAD Tips and Solutions

Here is a great list of recently published AutoCAD solutions by some AutoCAD Team Members: Date Article Author 10/8/2014 HP printers do not work with AutoCAD 2015 on Windows 8 Daniel Kuhmann 10/23/2014 Cannot import SketchUp files Karen Mason 10/23/2014... Read more →