AutoCAD Architecture :: Can Draw Whole Thing As 3D
Apr 6, 2013
I've been using AutoCAD since, well, for many years now. But i've only learned the basics, and recently found out about the Architecture version which simplifies so much. My projects are usually just for fun, drawing my own home, or planning things, making cutting designs for furniture etc. I've recently made a pretty exact floorplan and facade view of my house in acad (not architecture) for an application to build a terrace outside my house, but this was in plain 2D...
Now, I want to start over, using my old drawings as a reference (layers, blocks, not to mention imperial template which nagged me with annotations, plots etc.), but the first thing I want to know is how to "work smart".
- Which template should I use, seeing that acad and acadiso isn't present? I want too use metric as default for all my drawings.
- Should I split it into several drawings inside a project file? (I have no experience with project files). Or should I just use layers and such?
- Can I draw the whole thing as 3D, and still get good floorplans, facade views etc without all the "noise" from other lines as there are no planes to cover the "background noise". I'm not (currently) planning any rendered 3D pictures, but it would be nice to to keep that option available.
- I'm also looking through the content browser (which is also new to me) for electrical installation components as switches, receptacles etc, but can't seem to find it.
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Mar 23, 2011
is there a way to get rid of the ucs icon/view cube thing in the top right corner?
I open up an old drawing with multiple viewports and half of them have this symbol. So I assume that there is a way to turn it off. Again, trying to make computer faster and not have a graphic symbol in all of my viewports.
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Jul 16, 2010
I am having a huge problem with two of our projects. Whenever you try to make modifications in the file, it has this error "ERROR: Could not draw text!" in the command line - HUNDREDS of times. (As a matter of fact, it maxes out the amount of lines that the command history will remember.)
Mainly this occurs with ACA objects like walls and doors; does not do it for lines. It will also do this if you "undo" a command involving an ACA object. It also does this if you run an audit on the drawing. THUS, making the drawing very slow.
We have tried to copy out the objects and paste them into our clean template, but it follows along with it.
Is there something that I can delete or remove from the drawing? I need to get this fixed as we are just at 50% and 95% on the files, so I will need to be able to use them for a while. Projects are too big to redraw the files.
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Aug 13, 2011
I don't know whether I pressed something and switched off the dimensions display. When I started to use Autocad I could type in the dimensions of a box I wanted to draw and it would be highlighted in blue to let me know whether I was typing in dimensions for the height or the width of the box, but now I can't see it displayed. And when I click on line a previously drew it no longer shows what the dimension of that line anymore.
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1. How can you join walls and slab?
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3. is it possible to draw polyline, 3dpoly on a wall and "strech" it to become an opening?
4. on drawing status bar..there is a elevaton and cut elevation. I get what cut elevation stands for, but the other? (the lower elevation)
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Dec 12, 2012
How do i draw dimensions in a certain 3d view so that it shows up according to that view? For example, I'm in isometric view but when i draw a dimension it shows up in 2d at wrong angle.
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Apr 13, 2013
I don’t know if there is some way to draw, or somehow to say to AutoCad that it let me to input measurements from line but not from main base pint.
For example in Revit I can make angular dimension between lines and then apply any angle that I want, maybe AutoCad has such tool?
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That opaque tool bar thing keeps disappearing. The one over on the right of the screen. Has the PAN command and a few other things. It just disappears at random. I'm sure there's a reason but I never notice any correlation as I'm busy when it happens.
I can switch to another drawing then switch back and it comes back. How do I easily turn it back on?
Windows 7-64
8GB RAM
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
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I need to crop the PDF. So I opened it in Photoshop and, for reasons I cannot understand, SOME (not all) of the text on the page becomes somewhat pixelated after I open it in Photoshop.
Once I save the new doc as a PDF, that same text it is much less crisp than the original.
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I am working on a project where I have a photo of a white object with three parts. I have defined each of the parts on seperate layers. Now, I have to change the color (of all 3 parts) to about 20 different colors, and save each of the 3 elements, by itself on a transparent background, as each of the 20 colors. So, this one photograph should yield me 60 jpegs. (can jpeg have a transparent BG, or do I need to save as a different web-friendly format?)
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I don't want to rotate the whole chart, just pieces of it... that's why I don't just select all and rotate at once...
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