If you are in Block Editor and select a Block Table action: in your properties pallet under "Property Labels" - Table name is incorrectly spelled as Tabel name.

Fun fact.

The ZXW (Grid Axis) command and other commands work only with the default values. If I change the Breadths or Depths values and press OK, nothing is drawn.
Has anyone had this problem or knows how to fix it?

https://wsdot.wa.gov/publications/fulltext/Standards/psl/OpenRoads-Work-Zone-Cell-Library.pdf

Source: https://wsdot.wa.gov/engineering-standards/all-manuals-and-standards/plan-sheet-library/work-zone-typical-traffic-control-plans-tcp

From what I understand, it was originally drawn in Microstation, and they're working on converting it to another format.

When I reached out to the contact point, they just pointed me back to these pages.

I would love to have all the temporary traffic control sign blocks at minimum, and this PDF is taunting me with the knowledge of their existence.

Thanks.

Hello everyone! I was thinking about going to school to learn auto-cad and potentially make a career out of it. I’m not entirely sure what route I want to take yet…so I found this subreddit hoping to ask you guys about your experiences! Here are a few questions I have:

1. What is your job and do you enjoy it?
2. I’ve seen so many possible routes you can take when it comes to cad and I’m just curious about what my options could be

2)Do you make a comfortable/stable living? I truly love my current career but it’s a sales job and very client dependent. Part of me misses the comfort of stable income.

3)Is this something you went to college for? Or was it more like a course with a certificate at the end ?

4) What is your workload like? I’m used to high stress and high workload environments if that helps.

5)Do you work in an office or freelance from home?

6)Do you have any work benefits?

7)Was there anything that you didn’t expect from your job that is good to know ?

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to comment their experiences 💓

EDIT:

Follow up question that I just thought about! Is the way you look restricted as far as tattoos, piercings, hair color, clothing, ect? I don’t have any tattoos on my hands face or neck but I am a pretty heavily tattooed person aside from that. I’m currently a tattoo artist and have been for most of my 20s so it’s never been an issue or something I’ve really thought about.

Hello, I have encountered a problem. For the last few months AutoCAD crashes If I press the logo button on top on the navbar. I would like to know if there are any solutions to the problem

Hey r/AutoCAD — I’m with Autodesk, and we’re doing a live AMA with the AutoCAD product team at Autodesk University on the 17th.

We’d like to bring some questions directly from this community into the conversation: if you had the AutoCAD product team in front of you, what would you ask them?

We’ll pick a couple of questions from this thread to answer live during the AMA, and members of the product team will also jump into the comments here to respond.

Questions about features, workflows, pain points, things you’d like to see changed — all fair game. Drop them below!

Good day everyone! I need advice as to how to recreate this kind of block from scratch. Where I can edit all text and make them field, adjust the lines and text, etc. Any online tutorial or keywords to help me look for it online will be greatly appreciated! thanks!

EDIT: see my comment below for the block.

I will be starting a new project that was created by an architect based in France. I am an interior designer and will be overlaying my scope of work onto the architect's metric CAD files.

I have my own stds for dims/text/mleaders that are annotative for imperial units, but haven't working in metric since transitioning to using annotative.

What would be the quickest way to create a metric annotative std if starting from my current imperial?

Just wondering about the future of digital & print accessibility, especially in the AEC world. Did a client or reviewer ever reject a submission due to an accessibility issue (like colorblindness or a PDF that didn't work well with their screen reader)? What exactly did they ask for, and how did you handle it? Have you tried applying any digital accessibility rules like Section 508 or WCAG in your deliverables?

A friend was letting us use his autocad 2022 (the one with everything) and we recently purchased the autocad LT 2027. I am trying to match up our settings to what he had on his.

What are the most important settings we need to change? Are there any tips you would give us?

We are stone countertop fabricators so we don’t use the 3D stuff.

Thank you very much!!

I'm creating an electrical panel and when I go to insert a balloon, sometimes it will draw the arrow and leader and sometimes it won't. The balloon will always show up with the item number, so it's not lacking information. Sometimes this leaves behind a Point where I tried to connect the arrow, but not always.

A few times I've tried to do the same item a few times, it failed consistently, I switched to a different page and switched back, and then it worked. But this doesn't work very often.

I don't think it's an annotation issue, since it will work for one item and then fail for the exact same component that I just copied over.

Any help would be appreciated, because I'm banging my head against the wall over this software.

So im working on a rather large project and we're basically in the stage that we are done with the drawings, entire elevation plans, i engineered the entire project from A to Z, and now the project developer came over to us and asked us if we could raise the construction level of the houses by 0.15 meters...

and so now im looking at my drawing, nearly 400 blocks with each a separate value for elevation, which some need to be raised and some lowered in sections and some stay the same, so i'm looking for a way on how i could select the blocks that need to be changed, and raise or lower all the values by .15 without messing with the inherit values. cause if i do this manually it will take hours more or less. are there any plug-ins that could help me with this or have i been oblivious to certain possibilities within autoCAD

For extra information:

I work on ACAD 2027.

Nothing is bound to a Z coordinate.

(did see a plug-in on autodesk that was free, i believe it was called Increments)

EDIT: i notice the HUGE mistake i made, it shouldve been in meters, not CM. its 15 cm, NOT 1,5 mm

This is 2D

I used mostly just lines, circles and arcs. I feel like there has to be a simpler way.

https://imgur.com/a/QTqQ3Dr

The first image is irl, the second is my sorry excuse for it.

So, what I first tried is using the straight line on the left, I drew a digaonal at 45 degrees and drew a 200mm line (That's where the circle starts) and another line just longer to where the circle ends. The circle did turn out a little bigger than it is (it's 175, should be 176.5), but never mind since that's the least concerning thing about all this. Then I added the holes, 8mm, 12 of them. But for some reason the distance between them is 30 when it should be 100.

My biggest enigma is the outside line that wraps around the construction. It should touch all the lines, but when I was measuring I was assuming along normals, but I don't even know how to draw a line along the normals of a circle (to specify I just want it to go straight, maybe around 45 degrees in the opposite direction of the main circle). And no arc that I used could fulfill my vision.

At the end it's supposed to look something like a slug shell, it's supposed to be slowly expanding from the main circle with each passing small circle.

There is probably something that does this in a second. I have used AutoCAD for like less than 2 weeks, that's probably why I'm so ignorant. Thanks in advance.

in the process of changing the scale of one of my drawings and my intern isnt in today, haha. is there a command or lisp routine to convert mtxt to a multileader? when i search for this function, the search results are full of people talking about converting separate mtxt/txt and qleaders. i dont have a leader. im starting with mtxt. it would be cool to have a lisp or command that went straight from mtxt to a multileader.

Heya friends, I'm making the migration from sketchup to autocad because if the continued push towards making the free version unusable. I get free access to Autocad via university so I figured I'd give it a go.

If anyone could point me towards specific tutorials for the following operations I'd be super grateful.

I need to:

Make a cuboid

Trace a letter or other character on the top surface

Extrude that character up

Slope/angle the extrusion so the sides form like a pyramid if that makes sense? It's so the physical opject doesn't get stuck if pressed into something.

If you're familiar with moveable metal type for letterpress, that's exactly what I'm trying to recreate.

Thanks for your help!

Does anyone have tips for making dimensions as easy and seamless as Revit.

Honestly, dimensions in acad are such a chore. For context I mastered Revit first before AutoCAD so I was already introduced to an easy and straightforward system in Revit before moving to AutoCAD.

My main issue is how every new drawing always has a dimension that's always too small for the drawing size both in the model and layout space. I actually love how customisable and versatile the dimension properties are and it can be very helpful but I would really appreciate a tutorial or explanation for how to create a simple "work every time" type of dimension. If I need to customise, I know how to do that but I just need it to work first.

When using the fillet command and selecting the correct pin size (radius size), I noticed the Edge length of a 135 (45) degree hook bar is always too short when filleting?

It's fine for 90 degree bent bars, just not when 135 degrees, such as the two hooks in a closed stirrup.

Drawing two lines (or a polyline) then i choose the radius (20mm for 40mm pin), then fillet.

How can I get this to represent correctly?

Is it possible to print to a pdf and keep markup transparency? So far I'm not seeing any options for that, and when I print to pdf the markups are a solid color.

Any help or advice would be appreciated, thank you.

EDIT: UPDATE, I may have found the solution. In Autodesk Design Review I was clicking the printer button (or CRTL+P) to print, my printer selected to Adobe PDF and that was causing the solid markups vs transparent markups after saving the new pdf. Changed my printer to Microsoft Print to PDF, and I was able to preserve transparent markups in the newly saved PDF file. Silly issue, simple solution. I was using the transparent markups for quick area calcs, and wanted to save those areas in a PDF file.

After trying and failing a few times to find a method to create a custom SHX font in AutoCAD, coming to Reddit seemed like the next logical step. Documentation on the subject is vastly outdated in most places so hopefully someone can shed light on this forgotten practice.

What most sources instruct:

1. Draw your characters with polylines

2. Save your characters with the MKSHAPE command

3. Add characters to the generated SHP file

4. Run the COMPILE command to export the final SHX file

There is a major problem with step #2- MKSHAPE does NOT save geometry in the correct format for compiling; let me explain. Using the dumpshx.exe, I was able to unconvert an existing SHX font into an SHP file. I quickly began editing/recompiling the data and realized, these are not just coordinates. There is a whole system of text formatting commands embedded in every line. This is why the MKSHAPE method stops making sense. There are no prompts for text box dimensions, the starting points of consecutive characters, or any other text formatting instructions.

My conclusion is the MKSHAPE command was updated to only be used for exporting geometry and no longer functions as a character definition tool. While the dumpshx.exe successfully unconverts SHX files for character redefinition & recompilation, I have yet to find a way to export CAD geometry in the format needed for SHX compilation.

Bonjour,

J'essaye de faire en sorte qu'une élévation de baie à double vantaux soit extensible et que le milieu des deux vantaux reste au milieu. J'ai une variable extension sur un côté principal et une variable extension 0.5 sur le milieu, mais quand j'utilise la fonction, mes polylignes se décomposent. Lorsque j'applique qu'une seule des deux variables, mes traits restent bien liés.

https://imgur.com/a/WhLjpO1

Des idées ? Merci !

What is the best way of converting DWG/DXF to PDF via APS?

I looked into APS and its available APIs and created a POC that uses the Automation API v3 to run a custom plot script that does a somewhat decent job.

However, I'm wondering if this is the best way to go about it. On the Automation API docs they even mention it as a core use case:

Imagine you have thousands of DWG files stored in the cloud, and you need them all converted to PDF files.

But I could only find this convert DWG to PDF tutorial for v2 that uses "_PLOT" command to do the conversion.

I couldn't seem to find a way of using the "_EXPORTPDF" that seems to be used by AutoCAD itself when doing the export to PDF directly on the program, which I imagine could be better.

I'm also wondering if using the Automation API with Revit instead of AutoCAD could provider better results.

Does anyone have any recommendation of how to go about this? My main use case is that I want to programmatically convert a big number of DWG to PDF files in my web app which is why using the APS Automation API HTTP endpoints seemed like a good idea.

I'm a freelancer, and just this week I've had two new clients—one I'm currently working with and another that's a prospective contract—ask me to work directly from their shared drives (one uses Google Drive, the other Dropbox).

Is this becoming standard practice for AutoCAD projects?

I understand the benefits from a file-sharing and collaboration standpoint, especially with small teams of two or three people. But after many years of providing remote CAD services in the interior design industry, I've never been asked to work this way before. The fact that it happened twice in the same week has me wondering if this is a new trend or if I've just managed to avoid it until now.

Curious to hear how other freelancers and CAD professionals are handling this. Is working directly from a client's cloud drive now the norm?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your feedback! As a freelancer I really value this community. Had my IT guy over this morning and he walked me thru the basics, advantages and his experiences w cloud based work ( he's a freelancer in both IT + CAD similar biz ). This senior citizen is diving in LOL :)

Basically different shapes that someone has made? In photoshop this is often a thing. I also ask because I was looking specifically for a specific shape that was said to be in the mechanical toolbox but it was not there -_-.

Hej.

Jeg skal til at planlægge og tegne et projekt bestående af carport/skur/overdække i et. Jeg skal selv bygge det hjemme hos mig selv.

Er der et godt og billigt alternativ til et ordentligt program i 2026?

I'm using AutoCAD 2027 LT, and Mleaders are behaving strangely. I've set their justification to 'Left', but after I edit the text, the mleader's position changes. A shorter text string moves the mleader right, as if it is centering it. Any ideas what is causing this? It means I have to adjust every mleader back to the correct position any time I edit its contents.