* What is Match Properties and where to find it?

If you use any of the Microsoft Office programs such as Excel, PowerPoint or Word, you may have used the built-in Format Painter tool. The Format Painter tool is used to copy formatting from one item to another, for example, if you write the first sentence of a paragraph in Word using certain font type, color, and font size, you could copy the formatting of the first sentence of the paragraph using Format Painter tool and apply the formatting to selected text.

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In order to edit CAD drawings, we need to know how to select objects. Learning how to select objects is the first step for CAD beginners, which is very important.

Selecting objects is one of the basic operations in CAD, most operations in CAD would need users to select an object before any further operations.

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Although the J for JOINT command is only a one-key shortcut, it doesn’t mean it’s a commonly used command. In lower version of CAD, the JOINT command has every limited functionality, making fewer people use it. The higher version of CAD has enhanced the JOINT command, but fewer people have noticed this change.

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Some users have complained about how their drawings increase in size and it’s getting harder to work on their drawings because the copy and paste are not available.

But what makes a CAD drawing unexpectedly increase in size?

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Tips that can help improve your CAD efficiency:

1. Save your drawings to the latest version in your daily drawing work.
2. Only create blocks when it is necessary; If the block is exploded when pasted, remember to clean the redundant block data.
3. Do not use other patterns to fill when you should use Solid Fill; Do not explode the hatch pattern
4. Do not use plugins that generate many anonymous blocks, layer filters, etc.

We can’t guarantee that every follow the above tips, so it’s better to check big size drawings we receive from others. If there are redundant data that make the file big in size, we can reduce the file size using the following method.

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CAD system has provided Fillet and Chamfer command to help designers work on the small angles or intersections of spare part and equipment, which are very common in mechanical design.

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When drawing or designing with CAD, we usually have graphics that are repeatedly used such as windows in buildings, nut and bearing in mechanical devices. All those graphics can be defined as blocks and inserted into the current drawings and other drawings or even used to establish a graphics library. Using the block in CAD can greatly improve the drawing efficiency and quality of the drawing. In today’s post, we are going to talk about some basics about the block in CAD.

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For CAD beginners, the first step towards an advanced level is to learn the CAD software interface. Only when we get familiar with the interface, can we use the software more efficiently and save time.

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We are quite familiar with line and circle, which are common concepts in our daily life, CAD has introduced polyline, which means a line consisting of multiple lines and (or) arcs. Polyline consisting of multiple lines and arcs is drawn and edited as a whole, making it very convenient to use.

If we don’t customize the setup options, polyline would look exactly like lines and both of them could be used continuously. Then is there a way to help us tell polyline from line?

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Dimension is an important part in CAD drawings and there are many different types of dimension like Angular Dimension, Radius Dimension, Diameter Dimension, Linear Dimension, Aligned Dimension, just to name a few. In this post, we will introduce some commonly-used dimensions.

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