Calculating an area in AutoCAD will make your life a hundred times easier and doing the same thing in real life. In fact, AutoCAD provides tools to find what distances are from a point to the other as well as areas and circumferences. If you have a brain like mine, remembering formula is not what …
Nothing new under the sun. Here we go again with a bushy one. This one is by far the most time-consuming challenge. Today, you will need the ARRAY command, the FILLET command and the OFFSET command (we made extensive use of the OFFSET command in DAY 7). There is no need to mention that you …
It is time to try the HATCH command in AutoCAD. Today, we have a pretty straightforward image to replicate, and part of the task here is to use the HATCH command once the image is created. The image below can help you locate the HATCH command. To sum it up, they won’t be lots of …
Just looking at the image below makes me happy, and I bet you will understand this after completing the challenge below. As a reminder, I would like to give you the following tips, just in case you need it. You need to have mastered the use of the MIRROR command. Using it will save you …
In this AutoCAD tutorial, we have learned how to grow an array on an ellipse. Today we are going to combine that skill with others. That being said, we suggest you master the tips we share on DAY 12 and the use of the ARRAY command in AutoCAD before trying this one out. Learning AutoCAD …
We’ve hit the last DAY of the series, and we hope we have provided you with some insight and that those helped you gain more confidence working with AutoCAD. In this session, we will rush a little bit, and learn a few things you need to learn before closing. Things we are going to be …
Here is a cool 3D design project to work on as a beginners. In this session, we will use Tinkercad to model the stool you can see on the picture below. Here are the 2D representations of each part of the stool with dimensions. Step 1 Open the software and make sure you are working …
A few acrobatic moves today, but all the needed commands have in some way already been used in previous challenges. Practice makes perfect? right? If you’ve just landed here, I just wish to remind you that you can check the whole AutoCAD series from the start. Looking at the exercise below, you should be able …
If you have time to look at or remember what we did in challenge number 7, you will notice that today’s challenge has a lot of similarities with the later. We had to learn how to use the OFFSET command and we have been using it throughout. In this challenge, you have to use it …
One of the commands we have not used yet since the beginning of this series is the MIRROR command. We expect to force its use with today’s challenge. Today’s rule will be a bit altered in the sense that we wish you use the MIRROR command. How? If you look closely at the image below …
Let’s go back in time a little today with this simple exercise for the only purpose of getting a bit of ego boost. Today’s challenge is way easier than the two previous ones, so this should be a quick one. Now, we are going to look at the CHAMFER command and play with the UCS …
The EXTEND command is a command that few beginners will ever make use of. There are many other ways to accomplish what this command does without using it (At least as a beginner). Nevertheless, let’s explore this command and see in what case it might be a savior. EXTEND in AutoCAD This command is the …
The ARRAY command in AutoCAD is the magical command you will find yourself requesting a lot while working on AutoCAD. This command helps create a pattern of objects ranged in the following manner: Polar arrangement Rectangular arrangement Path arrangement These features are respectively represented by the following activation keywords: ARRAYRECT ARRAYPOLAR ARRAYPATH Where the ARRAYRECT …
The command prompt has become more useful in the present version of AutoCAD and knowing how this work can drastically help you level up your AutoCAD skills. Almost all commands have an equivalent icon to activate it, and it is not necessary to remember what a command is, but there are situations where you will …
Approximately a hundred years ago, the world was plunged into the industrial age which saw giants like John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford change the way people worked manufactured items as well as lived in those days. It goes without saying that these great men who took advantage of this age gained great personal …