Hi Jay. I moved. to Mac for AutoCAD LT 2024. I love your videos! They are very clear for most of the things that I am using. Can you tell me please how you start a line or polyline that is offset from an existing point? I cannot see how you did it in the tutorial. Thanks.
Hi Jay, I just watched your 2-hour long tutorial, AutoCAD complete course for 2023 MAC. It was tremendously helpful. Thank you so much for creating it. One thing that was not covered and that I cannot find instructions for anywhere is how to add a scale bar to a layout. Is that not possible in AutoCAD?
it's CMD+(whatever), control/shift doesn't do copy/paste unless you can change it. By far the best ACAD tutorial. I'm taking drafting at my local school. I have a mac at home where I'll be doing HW and I'll be learning on a Windows computer at school with ACAD 22. Should be interesting to say the least, lol.
dumbest of questions but when I insert a value for a poly line, rectangle or whatsoever, what do you press on your keyboard afterwards to confirm the value/set the line? because return key does nothing here on Cad 2024
Thank you so much for this video, Jay!! I was wondering if when we change the annotation scale in order to fix the appearance of dashed/zigzag lines and then regenerate - does that change the scale of the whole drawing? or it only affects those lines that are not straight?
Hey Alex Exactly how you described it, its only to make the dashing appear - the only place you change the scale for the drawing is inside a “viewport” which sits in a “layout” tab to make the drawing appear on a paper in a certain scale I hope this helps! Cheers Jay
Hod did you chance the object snap settings? I can only put it on or off and when I draw a line it will only attach to a corner not for exempel to a midpoint. Can it be different because I have AutoCAD 2024?
Hello dont know If u can assist me, am also on a Mac,when ever I hover my tool commands it does not show the name of the toledo you know how this happened thanks
Great job ! I'm starting my adventure with AC on Macbook. I've been working on Win for years, and now I'm giving up :( How can I change, for example, the color of the autorack vector or the auto-snap markers? There's probably some system variable, but I can't find it at all. Thank you very much for your help.
Thank you @tomaszwojciechowski9659 Unfortunately, I am not familiar with a system variable to change the color of the auto-snap markers. There's a setting in the options window (type OP+return to access) then head to "Cursor & Selection" tab - from there you can change the color of the Crosshair. Potentially you already figured it out and I hope this still helps! Cheers Jay
Workflow question: Working with other software I rarely have to click ESC or Return (You can either click out of things or hit space). Is there a trick to this or are you just used to it? For example, hitting return (to confirm something) then esc (to deselect) is killing me, especially since my right hand is on the mouse so it's done with my left hand.
I have 3 suggestions for you: 1. You can actually use Space button to finalize a command in AutoCAD 2. You can get a mouse with customizable buttons and assign Esc button to the mouse 3. You can customize buttons to your liking for example “Space button to “Cancel”. You can do that from “Alias Edit” - just type it and you’ll see this window Hope this helps!
Very nice, thanks. Im hesitant to customize buttons when still new to a software (there might be a logic I don't see yet). But 1 & 2 seem like very good ideas. Thanks!@@JayCad
Hey great video so far! the stretching tool isn't allowing me to pull down as seen in your demonstration. Am i missing something in the process of evenly stretching down a section?
You are correct, it is quirky. I left-clicked the mouse and dragged it from right to left to create a green area over what I wanted to stretch. When I then placed the cursor over one of the blue boxes that appeared on the lines and corners. A popup window appeared with the option to stretch at the top of the list of options. I clicked on stretch and moved the cursor to where I wanted the line to move. It moved. I then left-clicked again to enter the new location. Later, when I tried it again, it actually performed like in the tutorial. There seems to be a sequence of left mouse clicks that determines success or failure. I am still working on it. Let us know if the above worked for you.
Thank you Wm for helping! I will make a dedicated tutorial for the Stretch command as it works differently compared to other commands Julian, I hope it's working for you now!
I have a huge problem, I am new to AutoCAD, I will soon graduate and I am learning as I go, trying to create a title block for when I am ready to Plot and I found one on line and clicked on it and it went straight into my DRAWING, I tried to purge it and it says THIS BLOCK DEFINITION CANNOT BE PURGE BEACUSE: IT IS INSERTED IN THE DRAWING, please help how do I get rid of it, everytime I open a new drawing it is in there, and I am trying to cretae my own or download one that suits my needs. How do I get rid of it ?
Hey there, in all honesty, I do not have experience inserting Excel files in CAD I usually print an excel sheet (or schedule, or any table of information) to a PDF document, then I would attach that to my CAD drawing I hope this helps!
Great program. The only issue is that you don't show or wait on the button you click on. You cursor is too fast to see what you clicked. Thank you Specially when showing the layout and scaling the plat area.
The only way I know is from autodesk.com Look up their Autocad page, sign up for a free trial or subscribe to it Once you have access to the Autocad trial or subscription, you can choose to install the AutoCad mac version Hope this helps!
4 hrs later and I still don't know how to take my drawings in mm and print on an A3 via the layout!! Ridiculously frustrating, with a scaling that I can put in the title block. And the video did help, somewhat, but in reality just shows me how slow I am.
Here’s the process just in case - note that I am not familiar with the Metric system: * you use “layout” to place “viewports” of the “Model Space” - Viewports are like clips of the Model space and the drawings you have there. * you setup the “layout” paper size (in your case A3) * you assign a scale (whichever you’re using) to the “viewport” * the scale has to be a size that fits the paper - not all scales fit on a paper (or layout) * note that layout / paper / sheet are almost the same thing here which is layout. * it is confusing to print in AutoCad because of the terms used in the software I hope this helps - happy to still answer your questions All the best Jay
Whatever scale I use in the viewport it doesn't show the objects in the viewport. The only scale that works is the 'scale to fit', which is a weid number: 0.010248 and that is not a number I can put under scale in the title block. Don't worry too much. It is almost midnight and I just xxxxxxx frustrated with this software.@@JayCad
Hi Jay. I moved. to Mac for AutoCAD LT 2024. I love your videos! They are very clear for most of the things that I am using. Can you tell me please how you start a line or polyline that is offset from an existing point? I cannot see how you did it in the tutorial. Thanks.
Hi Jay, I just watched your 2-hour long tutorial, AutoCAD complete course for 2023 MAC. It was tremendously helpful. Thank you so much for creating it. One thing that was not covered and that I cannot find instructions for anywhere is how to add a scale bar to a layout. Is that not possible in AutoCAD?
YES! I LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS! Thank you for all of your work.
I appreciate you and thank you for watching!
it's CMD+(whatever), control/shift doesn't do copy/paste unless you can change it. By far the best ACAD tutorial. I'm taking drafting at my local school. I have a mac at home where I'll be doing HW and I'll be learning on a Windows computer at school with ACAD 22. Should be interesting to say the least, lol.
All schools for the most part teach on Windows and will definitely be interesting to learn on both OS - best of luck with your class & HW!
It must be tough to do this over one big session, but It was very helpful.
Happy to hear it was helpful!
At 17:58 the transcript reads "Terry" but should read, "Thirty."
Thank you! will work on fixing the transcript
Спасибо тебе большое за то, что помог разобраться и помог начать работать в программе с удовольствием.🙏
You are most welcome Dmitry!! Happy to hear :)
BRO YOU ARE THE REAL MVP!!
Haha thank you @hardandez!
dumbest of questions but when I insert a value for a poly line, rectangle or whatsoever, what do you press on your keyboard afterwards to confirm the value/set the line? because return key does nothing here on Cad 2024
Thank you so much for this video, Jay!! I was wondering if when we change the annotation scale in order to fix the appearance of dashed/zigzag lines and then regenerate - does that change the scale of the whole drawing? or it only affects those lines that are not straight?
Hey Alex
Exactly how you described it, its only to make the dashing appear - the only place you change the scale for the drawing is inside a “viewport” which sits in a “layout” tab to make the drawing appear on a paper in a certain scale
I hope this helps!
Cheers
Jay
Hey I went back over the last part of the video Standard Title Block, I notice when you put it the DATE, the actual date does not show up?
Hod did you chance the object snap settings? I can only put it on or off and when I draw a line it will only attach to a corner not for exempel to a midpoint. Can it be different because I have AutoCAD 2024?
When I open the insetr block icon is in the CURRENT DRAWING option, if I click on recent is not there, only on current drawing and I can not delete it
please go over how to make sure the mid points show up thank you
Hello dont know If u can assist me, am also on a Mac,when ever I hover my tool commands it does not show the name of the toledo you know how this happened thanks
Great job ! I'm starting my adventure with AC on Macbook. I've been working on Win for years, and now I'm giving up :( How can I change, for example, the color of the autorack vector or the auto-snap markers? There's probably some system variable, but I can't find it at all. Thank you very much for your help.
Thank you @tomaszwojciechowski9659 Unfortunately, I am not familiar with a system variable to change the color of the auto-snap markers.
There's a setting in the options window (type OP+return to access) then head to "Cursor & Selection" tab - from there you can change the color of the Crosshair.
Potentially you already figured it out and I hope this still helps!
Cheers
Jay
Workflow question: Working with other software I rarely have to click ESC or Return (You can either click out of things or hit space). Is there a trick to this or are you just used to it? For example, hitting return (to confirm something) then esc (to deselect) is killing me, especially since my right hand is on the mouse so it's done with my left hand.
I have 3 suggestions for you:
1. You can actually use Space button to finalize a command in AutoCAD
2. You can get a mouse with customizable buttons and assign Esc button to the mouse
3. You can customize buttons to your liking for example “Space button to “Cancel”. You can do that from “Alias Edit” - just type it and you’ll see this window
Hope this helps!
Very nice, thanks. Im hesitant to customize buttons when still new to a software (there might be a logic I don't see yet). But 1 & 2 seem like very good ideas. Thanks!@@JayCad
You’re most welcome!
Hey great video so far! the stretching tool isn't allowing me to pull down as seen in your demonstration. Am i missing something in the process of evenly stretching down a section?
You are correct, it is quirky. I left-clicked the mouse and dragged it from right to left to create a green area over what I wanted to stretch. When I then placed the cursor over one of the blue boxes that appeared on the lines and corners. A popup window appeared with the option to stretch at the top of the list of options. I clicked on stretch and moved the cursor to where I wanted the line to move. It moved. I then left-clicked again to enter the new location. Later, when I tried it again, it actually performed like in the tutorial. There seems to be a sequence of left mouse clicks that determines success or failure. I am still working on it. Let us know if the above worked for you.
Thank you Wm for helping! I will make a dedicated tutorial for the Stretch command as it works differently compared to other commands
Julian, I hope it's working for you now!
I have a huge problem, I am new to AutoCAD, I will soon graduate and I am learning as I go, trying to create a title block for when I am ready to Plot and I found one on line and clicked on it and it went straight into my DRAWING, I tried to purge it and it says THIS BLOCK DEFINITION CANNOT BE PURGE BEACUSE: IT IS INSERTED IN THE DRAWING, please help how do I get rid of it, everytime I open a new drawing it is in there, and I am trying to cretae my own or download one that suits my needs. How do I get rid of it ?
Thanks your video, how to insert Excel files in cad on Macbook similar to inserting in AutoCAD Window
Hey there, in all honesty, I do not have experience inserting Excel files in CAD
I usually print an excel sheet (or schedule, or any table of information) to a PDF document, then I would attach that to my CAD drawing
I hope this helps!
thank a million😁😁
You’re most welcome!
Which mouse do you use? I do electrical drawings and am currently using a Logitech MX Ergo
Logitech G600 is my favorite! With 12 different customizable buttons on the side and more
Highly recommend if you like customizing shortcuts (I do)
Great program. The only issue is that you don't show or wait on the button you click on. You cursor is too fast to see what you clicked. Thank you
Specially when showing the layout and scaling the plat area.
Does this work with M1 2024 AUTOCAD interface
Yes it is the same for 99% of what i mention
Does auto cad run on m1 chip?
Does it support all the tools like windows?
Yes for M1, No for all tools
Extremely different interface and terminology
please there is any command for total length on Mac Autocad 2023 because lisp not work on MacBook and thanks
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with this command - can you explain it to me and maybe I can help?
Cheers
Jay
Hi. May I ask how do you show the "DWGPROPS" command in autocad for mac? I can't find it. 😢
Hey there
I am not familiar with this command, let me know what it does, it could be under a different name in the Mac version
Cheers,
Jay
Please would you help me how to i download autocad mac book air
The only way I know is from autodesk.com
Look up their Autocad page, sign up for a free trial or subscribe to it
Once you have access to the Autocad trial or subscription, you can choose to install the AutoCad mac version
Hope this helps!
4 hrs later and I still don't know how to take my drawings in mm and print on an A3 via the layout!! Ridiculously frustrating, with a scaling that I can put in the title block. And the video did help, somewhat, but in reality just shows me how slow I am.
Here’s the process just in case - note that I am not familiar with the Metric system:
* you use “layout” to place “viewports” of the “Model Space” - Viewports are like clips of the Model space and the drawings you have there.
* you setup the “layout” paper size (in your case A3)
* you assign a scale (whichever you’re using) to the “viewport”
* the scale has to be a size that fits the paper - not all scales fit on a paper (or layout)
* note that layout / paper / sheet are almost the same thing here which is layout.
* it is confusing to print in AutoCad because of the terms used in the software
I hope this helps - happy to still answer your questions
All the best
Jay
Whatever scale I use in the viewport it doesn't show the objects in the viewport. The only scale that works is the 'scale to fit', which is a weid number: 0.010248 and that is not a number I can put under scale in the title block. Don't worry too much. It is almost midnight and I just xxxxxxx frustrated with this software.@@JayCad
can you recommend a thorough tutorial ?
Sure thing, depends on what field you work/study in - let me know
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