4 Easy Tips To Save Time and Work More Efficiently in AutoCAD

Today is a guest post by Brandon of CADintensions with some great AutoCAD Tips to make you more efficient. You can follow Brandon on Twitter at @cadintentions and visit his blog http://cadintentions.com/ for many more great tips like these. If you would like to guest author a blog post on Autodesk product tips and tricks email me.

Thank you, Brandon!
-Shaan

4 Easy Tips To Save Time and Work More Efficiently in AutoCAD

1. Setup and Use a Drawing Template:
Template Files or .dwt files are an easy way to boost productivity and stick to a specific set of standards in AutoCAD. Templates can contain everything from preset styles, layers, blocks, and so much more, giving a head start with every drawing.

I recommend setting up a .dwt for each main discipline or type of work we do, this way all of the blocks, layers, styles, etc.. required for a particular project are already in the drawing and ready to go. This will keep drawings consistent, with less clutter as well at let us get right to the…

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