We have taken a good time lately working on mastering the basics in AutoCAD, and with this skill, you must be able to replicate any 2D images using AutoCAD. As you must have noticed from our past experience, learning AutoCAD goes first with understanding what the environment is made of, How to draw basic shapes, …
SCALE is the name of the command that helps scale objects in AutoCAD. If you have been inserting blocks in existing projects, you mush be aware of how important this command can be. The main issue that arises most of the time when inserting an object or a block in a project you are working …
This post would be more interesting if you have checked the exercises where we first used the 3DRORATE command in AutoCAD. Here we will be using the SWEEP command, just as the EXTRUDE command we have made use of when we built out first figure in AutoCAD, it helps obtain cylinders from circles and can …
With what we have worked on last time, this should be just a piece of cake. Here is a table to go with the stool we modeled last time. The table is a combination of two big pieces using the puzzle-joint-technique, and looking at it with the designer eye, it is just a bunch of …
The LINE command and the PLINE command in AutoCAD are used exactly with the same steps. Consequently, it is hard for a CAD beginner to fully grasp the need to ever use one to the detriment of the other. In this post, we will look into a very basic example where the use of the …
Here is one of the three most used commands while assembling in AutoCAD 3D. The most part of creating a 3D object in AutoCAD is based on interlocking 2d parts seen in 3D. AutoCAD gives you the ability to create trivial 3D objects with more or less a click, and you will be constructing the …
There are many tools that allow you to easily measure distances and angles while working with AutoCAD. In this post, we will list the most intuitive route you can take to measure the distance and the angle between 2 points in AutoCAD. How to measure the distance and angle between 2 points in AutoCAD Let’s …
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 …