
Shaun lives in Norwich in the UK, and is the owner and director of CADFMconsultants Limited. and choose Reset Palettes or enter RESETPALETTES on the command line. He is also an Autodesk University speaker mentor, AutoCAD Influencer, and a member of the Autodesk Expert Elite program. Note: The reset utility for AutoCAD 2016 is found under Start menu > Autodesk. He is a seasoned Autodesk University (AU) speaker and was the AutoCAD expert at the inaugural Autodesk University London in June 2017. Shaun has been a director on the board of Autodesk User Group International (AUGI), and he is also the author of the reputable CAD blog, Not Just CAD!. He also has industry experience as a CAD manager/user. His career has included 18 years as a CAD, BIM, and facilities management consultant and trainer, with the earlier years of his CAD career in sales, pre-sales, and business development. This Variable Controls whether you select objects before (noun-verb selection) or after you issue a command. He has worked as a consultant, trainer, manager, and user, all of which helped him develop a diverse skillset. To kick things off here are the new commands and system variables, here are those. Before taking a look at AutoCAD 2016 from a developer’s perspective which we’ll do next time in this post we’re going to take a quick look at its user features. For example, with this AUTOCAD command we could create concentric circles in a single step. The Offset command creates parallel copies of objects like lines or curves. In this post, I’ll focus on the first two options, CTB and STB plot styles. By layer, using the settings in the Lineweight column of the Layer Properties Manager. By layer or by object, using a named (STB) plot style table. Shaun has sales, support, and technical expertise, CAD managerial skills, and 30 years of industry experience. It’s that time again Over the coming days you’re going to be hearing lots about the next release of AutoCAD, codenamed Maestro. AUTOCAD’s Offset command is another of the editing tools that comprise this program and with which it is possible to create parallel lines as we will learn in this Tutorial. AutoCAD offers three basic ways to control line weights: By color, using a color-dependent (CTB) plot style table. Position your mouse on the small wrench icon as shown in Picture 1.Ĭlick on it and select lines of prom history as shown in Picture 2.Įnter the number of the used commands you’d like to see in the history list and press “Enter” on your keyboard.Shaun Bryant is an Autodesk Certified Instructor in both AutoCAD and Revit Architecture. You can even change the number of commands it shows.

CLI, COMMANDLINE / Displays the Command Line window.

This way you can keep track of what you already did and take the next steps. Learn AutoCAD hotkeys and commands with the AutoCAD Shortcut Keyboard guide to help you work faster. Also the command line shows your previous performed orders as a history list. This means that you can change the position of it and move it wherever you want. These values are related to commands and to control how the user interacts with the AutoCAD Environment.

You use this interface to tell AutoCAD what you want to do, create or insert and AutoCAD will understand you and will input the information you have given.There is a golden rule with using AutoCAD, especially when you are a beginner, when you don’t know or don’t understand what some command does and this way you can enter the command in the command line and read the outlines of it or what the program expects that command to do. AutoCAD Systems Variables is where AutoCAD does most of its storing of temporary and some permanent values. When using the distance command, autocad will give you the distance between 2 points. The Command-Line Interface, when set by default on the bottom center part of the work space, can be used as a great conductor of all of the information that you want to insert in AutoCAD.
