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AutoCAD SHEET SETS Explained! The Best Tool to Save You TIME Instantly

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Hi All,

Happy Thursday!

I hope you’re having a great week so far and enjoying some warm weather and time outside this spring.

I’m excited to share this week’s video and if you haven’t checked out last week’s video yet you can watch it here (Get Started with SOLIDWORKS Online). I’ve also got some new 3d modeling/design tutorial videos coming where we will walk through the process of designing something for the real world!

Jumping into this week’s video, we are getting into how sheet sets work in AutoCAD.

I’ve long talked about how Sheet Sets are one of the most underused yet highly helpful tools in AutoCAD. I think the steep learning curve and general confusion about how Sheet Sets work have unfortunately kept many users from using them, but this is a huge hindrance to productivity, especially on large projects!

In the video, I wanted to explain and simplify sheet sets as much as possible, things like what is a sheet set, how to set up a sheet set, tips, tricks, and useful automation when using sheet sets, and more!

Watch this week’s video now: AutoCAD SHEET SETS Explained! The Best Tool to Save You TIME Instantly

That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed this week’s email and I would love to hear what you think, do you use Sheet Sets regularity? If not, Why?
 
Be sure to let me know by hitting reply or on twitter @cadintentions ! 

As always, thank you so much for reading and watching, I am super excited for the rest of the year, growing the content, tutorials, and blog with you all. 

Cheers and happy Drafting!

PS. If you liked today’s video or any of my videos/tutorials and you want to learn over 15 years of AutoCAD Tips & Tricks in a hurry, you can use this link to get my AutoCAD Fundamentals Course and join 100’s of fellow drafters/designers and get started right now!

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/



AutoCAD How To Insert Drawings – 3 Simple Tricks To Import, Add & Reference DWGs

Posted on by faz_business


I hope you’ve had a great week so far, and were able to enjoy some time off to recharge over the weekend.

For us, last weekend the weather cooperated and made for a perfect time to relax and spend time with friends/family, including a day trip to the lake and some time on a secluded beach to hang out, swim, and skip rocks!

It’s been a busy month or two here with lots going on at work, with the family, and on the blog/channel, I want to thank everyone who joined and has been participating in the CAD Support Community/Forum!

It’s been awesome and I’m excited to grow it even more in the coming weeks/months. The first group of spots filled up in just 3 days, which is so great! We’ve been getting to know each other and answering questions already, and today’s video is even based on one of the early requests!

If you missed out on joining the Community or want to learn more, you can check out this link here (http://cadintentions.com/cadsupport) to take part in the 2nd Enrollment open now!

With that, let’s jump into this weeks video below:

In this week’s video, I’m answering and expanding on a question from our CAD Support Discord.

In it, we’re going over 3 simple methods and tricks for inserting or importing DWGs into our drawings!

Depending on your situation and the type of drawing you’re creating, each of these different methods of bringing drawing data into our drawing can be super helpful. Whether you just want bits and pieces of a drawing inserted, a live linked reference of say a floor plan, or you just want to insert everything to make changes, today’s video has you covered with all the options!

These are all really must-know commands and tricks for creating drawings and building out a detailed and accurate design that every designer should know.

Check it out now: AutoCAD How to Insert Drawings – 3 Simple Tricks to Import, Add & Reference DWGs

That’s all for today, I hope you were able to take something away from the tutorial, and if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment or reach out on Twitter @cadintentions.

As always, thank you so much for reading, I am excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.

Cheers, and happy Drafting!

PS. If you liked today’s video or any of my videos/tutorials and you want to learn over 15 years of AutoCAD Tips & Tricks in a hurry, you can use this link to get my AutoCAD Fundamentals Course and join 100’s of members of the course, get started right now!

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/



AutoCAD XREFs Explained! External Reference Tutorial & Must-Know Tips

Posted on by faz_business


To start today, I want to thank everyone who joined and has been participating in the CAD Support Community/Forum! we had some new members join over the last few days and I couldn’t be more excited for the group to grow and answer all of your CAD related questions!


It’s been awesome to meet everyone and looking forward to meeting/welcoming more of you in the coming weeks/months.


If you haven’t had a chance to take a look or you missed out on the initial announcement or want to learn more, you can check out this link here (http://cadintentions.com/cadsupport) to get all the info and join the current enrollment which I’ll keep open for a bit longer since I’ve had a few more questions come in through email.

If you had any questions about the CAD Support group please let me know how I can help!




XREFs are the building blocks of almost all AutoCAD drawings, particularly production drawings as they become more detailed and complicated. Xrefs allow use to keep track of different elements of the drawing and ensure everything stays up to date.


Using and understanding xrefs (External references) is not only helpful but typically a necessity of creating a complete drawing.


Not only do they help keep our drawings organized, but they also help to keep file sizes smaller and drawings easier to work on in teams.

In this week’s video, I wanted to go over a bit of everything XREFs.

How xrefs work in AutoCAD?

What an xref or external reference is?


Along with some great tips & tricks to save you time when working with them!


Once again, if you haven’t had a chance to take a look or want to learn more, you can check out this link here (http://cadintentions.com/cadsupport) to get all the info and join now!

That’s all for today, I hope you were able to take something away from the tutorial, and if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment below or reach out on Twitter @cadintentions.


As always, thank you so much for reading, I am excited to be back and posting regularly on the blog and hope you all will follow along.


Cheers, and happy Drafting!

PS. If you liked today’s video or any of my videos/tutorials and you want to learn over 15 years of AutoCAD Tips & Tricks in a hurry, you can use this link to get my AutoCAD Fundamentals Course and join 100’s of fellow drafters/designers and get started right now!

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Brandon is a Civil Designer, Aspiring Blogger/Creator, Husband, Father to two Amazing Kids and Tech Aficionado from a small town in Canada. He has been obsessed with design and technology since he can remember and working as a Civil Designer for nearly as long. Brandon’s blog and Youtube channel, CADIntentions.com has been his outlet and excuse for keeping up with new tech and trends in the CAD design world for the last 10 years growing to more than 60,000 subscribers and over 15,000,000 views, while also being the source of many great friendships and unique opportunities.

If you would like to Sponsor CAD Intentions or Work together in some way, Please visit my About Page and send me an email: http://cadintentions.com/about-me/