Posted By Mike Williams on July 13, 2009
AutoCAD Training: Learn AutoCAD Now!!!
Everyone knows how difficult it is to find (or keep) a good job in an field that uses AutoCAD
In today’s tough economy, you can’t afford to be anything but the absolute best AutoCAD drafting professional in your company. If you are out looking for a job, nobody will hire [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on July 8, 2009
Here’s a problem many people face when working on engineering drawings, especially plan and profile sheets. How to create a drawing with different vertical and horizontal scales?
As everyone should know by now, in AutoCAD, you always draw FULL scale. This becomes a problem when working on some drawings, because when you are working on [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on July 7, 2009
This tip may not apply to everyone, but if it applys to you,I know this is going to make your day. Many useres have complained about their mouse having a delay in AutoCAD. This is not only very frustrating, but it also kills productivity. If you are using Windows Vista, here’s a solution that [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on March 25, 2009
In each issue of our Weekly Tipsheet, I want to add value to you in ways other than just your CAD skills. My personal mission is to live life to its full; enjoy the company of friends and family; and to live on purpose and with a purpose. Over the past 10 [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on March 3, 2009
This tip was recorded in High Definition Video. I’ve attempted this on one of the last previous tips and a few people said they had issues with the sound. Hopefully that problem has been fixed. For the best picture quality, I recommend playing the video in full screen mode.
Please let me [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on March 2, 2009

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Posted By Mike Williams on February 27, 2009
Here’s a video tip for everyone. Video Tips are usually only available to our subscribers (you can subscribe for free in the upper right portion of the screen), but I get asked this question so often by AutoCAD 2009 users. Enjoy:
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Note: You need flash installed on you computer to [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on February 24, 2009
Who Jacked Up My AutoCAD?
Does this sound familiar? One day you are cruising along, drafting like a ninja and then the next day you come in and AutoCAD is doing some crazy stuff? Specifically, when you go to select additional objects, the original objects are removed from the selection set. Your efficiency and productivity [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By Mike Williams on February 22, 2009
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Posted By Mike Williams on February 18, 2009
Another Great Subscriber Tip
Vincent Swift wrote this in the comment section of one of our previous tips:
“here’s a tip I use a lot with the offset command we often want to draw a centreline offset from an outline and a lot of people work out the half distance in their head which is [...] Continue Reading…
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