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Have you ever had the need to create high-quality videos capturing the details of complex workflows in Autodesk AutoCAD to show your ideas, spread the word, or share knowledge? Autodesk Screencast will do that while tracking your keystrokes and…

If you are not familiar with the Autodesk APP Store, then you are missing out.  There are lots of free (and paid) add-in products that can make you work more efficient.  Here are a few of my favorites.

How do I switch Autodesk products from Standalone to Network vice versa?

1) Repair software application

• Go to the search bar and select Control Panel
• With View by set to Category select Uninstall a program
• Find Autodesk AutoCAD 20xx and select it in the selection panel
• Select Uninstall/Change
• Select Repair or Reinstall

1 ) OOPS Command – Have you ever erased something and then drawn a few more items and needed to undo the erase. Undoing will undo all your drawn lines back to the erase command. Simply type OOPS and hit enter and the erased items will reappear…

Using the scale command with the reference option to scale something to an unknown scale.

1) Open a document with the items you are wanting to scale.

2) Draw a line from a known point a known length (red line below):

3) Type SCALE or select the…

How to attach a PDF underlay into AutoCAD.

1) Open a document or start a new file. Click the Insert tab and then on the Reference panel select Attach:

How do I get my toolbars to look like the classic AutoCAD?

METHOD 1:

The first method is for users who have a previously installed or have a custom toolbar saved: