Basically, my colleague makes blocks but he never turns the scale uniformly check box so I have to go into many blocks to turn it back to that so they can scale properly. These are blocks for icons or title blocks for viewports, I just want it all to be scaled uniformly so I can easily change it to half value or 0.25 value and not spend ages waiting for a block to finish transforming if its a bit more complex.

All our templates are in imperial. We are creating a metric template.

We have a few custom linetypes in the imperial templates,I'd say 10 custom ones at most, but the rest of the linetypes we use are autocad defaults.

I wonder what's the best practice for maintaining a metric and an imperial template at the same time. Do we use the same template and just change the linetype scale by 25.4? Or use an iso file template, and add and convert the custom ones to metric?

Hi everyone, I need help creating technical drawings (with dimensions) for my thesis project (it's a product). I used AutoCAD in my first year, but I don’t remember or know how to do many things. Here are my main issues:

• My 3D model in Rhinoceros is a module of about 30x30 cm, but my advisor insists that I use only a 1:2 scale (no smaller). I can’t figure out how to fit the drawings on the paper.
• I converted the Rhinoceros model to mm because my AutoCAD is set in mm. However, when I try to preview the layout on an A4 sheet at a 1:1 scale, the drawing is tiny and doesn’t match. The same thing happens at 1:2—it still ends up very small.
• I’m unsure how to set line weights for the drawings and dimensions in both the model and layout. When I add dimensions, the numbers are so small that I can barely read them, and I don’t know how to configure different line weights for printing.

These A4 sheets will be part of my thesis book, not large technical panels. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

How do you make a cutout line with an arrow on the end? This is for 2d drawing only

Everytime I run it, it says " Unable to run Autocad. A dependent component Microsoft .NET is missing or you don't have sufficient rights to run Autocad. If you have sufficient rights, install the missing component or reinstall autocad". I have tried reinstalling this for a couple of times and it still won't work. I have installed Microsoft .NET many times and no work either. Deleted all autodesk just to install them again. How to fix this?

https://imgur.com/gallery/im-wits-end-plotting-autocad-will-not-plot-lines-as-b-w-even-when-i-set-index-color-to-black-Cd5dGE9

please help me ever since i installed bricscad something fucky has been going on with plot settings. it refuse to plot the lines in black even when i set the index color to plot as black.

I am a sound engineer that has been tasked with designing a sound system for a theatre. The software that I am using is called MAPP 3D and it allows users to build a 3D model of a venue, insert loudspeakers into that venue and then predict how that system will behave. This software allows the import of 2D .dxf files but has no options for how those files are displayed other than scale. I need to prepare the .dxf files in AutoCAD before importing in order for the drawing to be displayed in a way that makes sense.

I have a 2d section drawing of the theatre in .dxf format that I would like to import to MAPP3D. When I open this in file MAPP3D it gets a 2 major things wrong that I would like to fix in AutoCAD before importing;

• Z axis = Y axis - as this is a section view of the theatre I need the drawing to be oriented along the z and x axis' so that it appears within the 3d space of MAPP 3D as a cross section of the theatre. Currently the drawing displays along the x and y axis in both AutoCAD and MAPP3D and I can't find an option, or even think what the option would be called, to change this in AutoCAD. I do know that other people are using this exact software for this function.
• Origin point in MAPP3D not equal to AutoCAD - I need the 0,0 point in the drawing to sit where the theatre's stage meets the auditorium floor. I have used the UCS tool in AutoCAD to move the origin point to the correct position, saved as a new file and imported that new file into MAPP3D to no avail. MAPP has seemingly chosen a random origin point in a completely different location and it does not change no matter what I do with the UCS tool. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here and need to use another tool for this.

I would love to attach some images for y'all but that option is greyed out for me.

Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, and have a wonderful day

I'm new on Autocad and any other CAD programm and i want to use an existing file an do some modifications. But the drawing doesn't have the square snap points that im used to, instead it has some round points that i can't snap on. there are curves, I dont know if that's the issue

Edit: I found out it's spline lines, is there any way to change it in poly line, or modify it ?

Solved Edit: I used splinedit command and did it. its a little bit chunky but it did the work

Thanks ion advance

Periodically I will have to work in a coworkers drawing, and every once and a while I come across a weird error with multileader background masks. I've never been able to figure out how to create the error from scratch, and haven't found a way around it.

Normally if you set the multileader Text -> Width property to "0" with a background mask applied, the mask will shrink around the text to fit within the text boundary / masking offset. This error causes the mask to extend down a seemingly random length past the text boundary, but only when the Width property is set to 0. The text box seems to behave normally otherwise.

It never extends left, right, or up, only down, and no settings I've found seem to fix the issue. I even used the "StripMtext v5-0b.lsp" command and still the mask behaves this way.

There are also extra square grips at the corners of the text component that match the background mask extension, and are able to be adjusted when the multileader is selected, but always snap back to their starting position regardless of how they are adjusted. Setting the MText Height property to 0 as well doesn't seem to have any effect. I also tried applying columns, setting them to their lowest values, then removing the columns in case that was affecting the text height, but the error still happens.

This seems to happen more often when I am adjusting the text style or text height of the multileader to be different than the style default (we use height 2 text, a lot of the defaults are set to 2.5), but not exclusively. Using the stretch arrows while editing the text to adjust the width of the multileader works as intended, the error only happens when the text width is set to "0".

Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

Hello, I want to learn autolisp to create simple(maybe advance later) programs for my personal use. What is the best resource to learn from ?

Basically everything is explained in the title. I add my block and it just goes invisible, only visible when i select it (its still there, but for some reason invisible)

Has anyone done full breakout drawings for a padel court? The box section frame with mesh, glass etc

I’m in 2025 Arch and drawing in meters, setting up a page to print. Page setup units are 1:1 (1mm =.001 units).

When selecting 1:500 in the scale list the viewport zooms in super close (incorrectly), but using the z 1/500xp command calibrates the viewport correctly.

Am I missing something for why the viewport scale list isn’t scaling properly?

Hi all, anyone know whether it is possible to purchase Autocad subscription and transfer the (single user) license to another person? I'm thinking of doing this for my son as a gift.

Hello in my class for auto ad we are starting to so isometric drawings and I'm wondering if there any tips or tricks for a first time user I am struggling with it

I’m using 2025 Arch where in unit setup you can spec units as millimeters or meters rather than the old decimal method.

When drawing in meters and setting up the units in page setup, I used to spec 1mm = .001 units.

Now when drawing in meters, in page setup I have to set 1mm = 1 unit in order for the viewport scales to work out.

Is there something I’m missing here?

I have 5 different offices, working on different servers, working on the same projects. Coordinating civil work across offices is a nightmare. We’ll do sewers in one location, site plan and grading in another, storm sewers in another, etc.

How do y’all coordinate across servers without the model being really slow? Can you just use data shortcuts stored on one server?

If someone copied the AutoCAD file, it can be identified using the DWGPROPS or TDCREATE command. However, if someone copies and pastes (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) it into a new file, how can it be identified?

Title. Happy to elaborate. Seems dumb to not have it as an option, but that can be explained by autodesk being the creator of the software lol

Edit: I'm an idiot & this sub is great

Hoping there is some way to do this in LT. I found AutoWblock but LT doesn't let you install add-ons...

I'm on 2025 AutoCAD, no special versions or anything. I have successfully loaded an xref for my background, it's shows up in model space no problem, but it doesn't show up in the xref panel at all. I can't reload it, I can't detach it; it's just not showing up on the menu at all even though the xref drawing is obviously loaded.

I can barely find any information about this problem online, I just see that other people have had this issue before with no clear resolution.

Any suggestions?

I need to convert a dwg to jpg, easiest way I have found is dwg to pdf to jpeg. Is there anyone to get a higher quality image JPG. I am using PDF24 Toolbox if that matters at all

Looks like 2018-2025 is all on the 2018 file format.

Does anyone have any insight when AutoCAD will create a new file format? Seems like they are overdue...

How do you change a leader so it doesn't have the arrow thing? See Example.

Hi, I'm still learning the ins and outs of AutoCAD. I am tasked with drawing a section of a 2D building for my Engineering class using the Architects drawing. Can anyone help me on how I do that?

I'd like to preface this by saying that I am relatively new to autoCAD.

I am trying to make an equilateral triangle that is 19.5" tall including a 1.5" fillet at the top. Whenever I add the fillet it shrinks the overall height of the shape to 19" and some change.

I understand geometrically why this is happening, the arc that is being created will obviously be lower than the previous peak of the shape. What I don't understand is how to take this shrinkage into account.

When I press keyboard keys, instead of typing commands or using MText to type text, it just starts opening file explorer and edge and its like my keyboard is being use exclusively for hotkeys and I have no idea what I pressed. Everything was working fine 5 minutes ago.

Despite having snap mode off the cursor keeps snapping to the grid when I zoom in? how can I fix that?

Heres a vid

I tried using the audit command but it didn't find any errors. It didn't allow me to sweep the path regardless.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mq2LWfU3laNRIcJJ_jBLChjN4o1r6Fk-/view?usp=drivesdk

I have two view ports, one is on an 18x24 @ 1”=10’ and the other is 17x11 @ 1”=20’. The line weight of the 17x11 is coming out thicker? I thought the line weight is how it appears on paper so shouldn’t they appear the same on both differently scaled viewports?