AutoCAD Tips & Tricks

Your designs can now exist in any shape imaginable, thanks to free-form design tools. Many critical features have been automated, making your workflow more efficient and the move to 3D design even smoother. Sharing and working on projects with colleagues has never been easier, thanks to multiple enhancements to our PDF capabilities, and the exciting addition of 3D printing.

With these and countless other new capabilities you’ve been asking for, AutoCAD 2010 takes any idea and turns it into reality faster than ever before.

Explore Design Ideas with 3D Free-Form Conceptual Design Tools
With the new free-form design tools in AutoCAD 2010, you now have the power to design ideas in almost any form you can imagine.

Slash Revision Time with Parametric Drawing
Now, you can constrain drawing objects based on design intent - ensuring that specific relationships and measurements remain persistent even as objects are modified

Eliminate Headaches with Annotation Scaling Tools
Automated scaling of text, dimensions, blocks, hatches, and linetypes make managing annotations simpler than ever before.

Attach PDF Files as Drawing Underlays
A top customer wish-list request, AutoCAD 2010 enables you use design data from PDF files in your AutoCAD designs.
Make Real Models with 3D Printing in AutoCAD 2010 software - Output your 3D models directly to your 3D printer, or connect through AutoCAD to an online service provider

Take Productivity to New Heights with the Enhanced Ribbon Interface
The newly enhanced ribbon interface helps increase your overall drafting productivity, as its context-sensitive behavior requires fewer clicks to reach a command. It presents command options in a concise visual format, so you can quickly make selections that suit the work you’re doing.

Maintain Block Data with Dynamic Attribute Extraction Tools
Exclude blocks without attributes, exclude general block properties, and sort by the type of block properties when specifying the data to extract. Extract block data directly to an AutoCAD table and apply table styles

Automate Repetitive Tasks with the Action Recorder
Save time and increase your productivity by automating repetitive tasks without requiring the assistance of a CAD manager.

Create, Edit, and Provide Consistency Across Leaders
Define multileader styles to provide consistency across leaders, add multiple leader lines to a single leader object, and even include bubbles or blocks as leader content.

Dynamic Blocks
With Dynamic Blocks, you no longer have to redraw repetitive standard components, and you can reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process. Dynamic Blocks make individual block geometry editable and eliminate the need to define a new block for every variation of shape and size.