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With every subscription to AutoCAD, you get access to industry-specific specialized toolsets that allow you to be more productive and save time. How much time do they save, and how exactly do they...

Every subscription to AutoCAD 2022 gives you access to seven industry-specific toolsets that automate tasks and save you valuable time. You get both innovative new features, as well as...

AutoCAD 2022 drives design forward with connected workflows and automations that let you focus on what matters most: creating great designs. Packed full of value, AutoCAD including specialized...

We are excited to share that AutoCAD 2022 for Mac and AutoCAD 2022 LT for Mac are now available and offer new ways to save time and improve the way you work through a connected design experience....

Work with electrical in AutoCAD? Want to save time in AutoCAD? If you’re not using the electrical toolset, you could be missing out on some incredible time-savings. Best part is it’s right at your...

Workspaces are often overlooked in AutoCAD LT. There’s only one by default, which is Drafting & Annotation. Today, we’re going to look at customizing the user interface and saving those changes as...

Blocks are—quite literally—the building blocks of AutoCAD. Recently, Sheen In Liew and Sophia Lee of the AutoCAD team hosted an in-depth webinar to help you learn how to work with blocks in...

There’s a long-held misconception that you can’t customize AutoCAD LT. Most likely, this is due to AutoCAD LT not supporting API’s. So, no—you can’t customize it with AutoLISP, .NET, or...

Last November, Autodesk debuted the first global, all-digital Autodesk University 2020. With keynotes and sessions online, anyone could attend and more than 100,000 did just that. And you can...

Metric vs. Imperial. Which side are you on? The United States is one of the very few countries in the world to use the imperial system, while everywhere else in the world uses the metric system....

More and more often, teams are working remotely and collaborating in the cloud. We are excited to share that cloud-based storage solution Autodesk Drive is now available in the AutoCAD web app....

It seems to have become a 3D world out there—model this, BIM that—but make no mistake, there’s still a need for old fashioned 2D drafting too. And, of course, the end goal of whichever method you...

Attaching raster image files as underlays has become quite common in modern CAD departments. In fact, I’ve seen entire sheets of a document set as nothing but attached underlays with the...

2020 was an unprecedented year for all of us. For the new CAD Manager Wishlist: The 2020 Hindsight Edition at the first digital Autodesk University 2020, Christie McAllister from Autodesk, Jisell...

In the Have You Tried for this month, we cover coordinate entry specifically using Dynamic Input.  Coordinates are one of the fundamental pieces of information required by most commands in AutoCAD...

To say our way of working over the past year has changed is quite an understatement. Many of us began and are still working from home, which presents its own set of challenges. With it, some...

The importance of working where and how you want is paramount. You now have more choice in the way you work with the AutoCAD web app available in the same 14 languages as AutoCAD: English, Czech,...

This week I’m excited to share another time saving and helpful tip with all of you. Today, we’re going to look at the XClip command within AutoCAD. The XClip command allows us to clip/crop an...

Have you ever wanted to create a new drawing and have all your text styles, dimension styles, layers, units, and other drawing settings already setup and ready to go? Templates in AutoCAD can help...