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If you ever had a need to use points in AutoCAD or had to divide a line, you would've have found there was no change in the viewport, bu the issue is that the points are not visible. You can change the point style in AutoCAD so that they are displayed in a different format. To do that you just have to type DDPTYPE or PTYPE in AutoCAD which pops up the following window of preset point styles, you ca choose from the list of styles. Point style

Autocad is one of the oldest and the most used software in the field of architecture. Autocad has been around since 1982 and has undergone many updates and many commands have been added, according to users suggestions. One of such commands, that is most used in AutoCAD is "OFFSET" Offset command has many added subcommands that can reduce the number of repetitive tasks performed by the users. When you activate the offset command, you can see the list of possible subcommands that can be executed with the offset, in the command line such as multiple, layer. The following link  from Autodesk help website gives us all the possible options that can be executed using offset command Lynn Allen is one of the expert AutoCAD user, who provides tutorials and also speaks in Autodesk university to share her knowledge of AutoCAD. She explains in detail the perks of offset command in her blog .

If you ever want to check what the dimension of an object is going to be when it's printed on a particular scale you set(in layout/paper space), you have to set DIMASSOC values to either 0 or 1. If the value is set to 2, the dimensions display the real scale dimensions of the object in paper space. Please refer the following link from cad-notes for a detailed explanation.

AutoCAD is one of the best CAD applications in the market. It has a wide variety of features. The more you learn the more feature you find which will definitely impress you. One of such features in AutoCAD is the QSelect tool. Qselect is an advanced version of "select similar" which lets you choose the property that you need AutoCAD to use for selecting similar elements. In Autocad, you can select objects having similar properties like layer, color, line type, transparency etc... using Qselect command. QSelect window provides you with multiple options.Once you have selected the elements, you can use filter command to further filter your selection. The following video explains the use of Filter & Qselect.

If you have a drawing in Imperial units and want to convert it to Metric, changing the dimension primary units is not gonna work ass the actual length between any two line won't change. You'll have to scale the drawing with a factor that increases the drawing size. There are 3 different ways to do it, as mentioned in Cad-Notes Scale the drawing manually  Create a new drawing with your preferred unit, then insert/bind your drawing there. Using DWGUNITS tool for Autocad 2009 & later. Scaling Manually Inch to mm To manually scale a drawing from inch to mm, you have to select all the objects you want to scale & choose a base point & specify the scale factor as 25.4  mm to inch To manually scale a drawing from mm to inch, you have to select all the objects you want to scale & choose a base point & specify the scale factor as 0.0393. Explanation  We know that to convert a drawing from mm to m, you have to scale it by 0.001(...

The following link in Autodesk forum provides the solution. The different ways to Reset the text position of any dimension in AutoCAD 2015 & lower are Using the DIM command and type hometext  in the command prompt (also works with multiple dimensions) Selecting all the Dimensions you would like to reset the position, Right click on one of the grips and choose Dimension Text position>Home Text . Refer link In Autocad 2016 & later, the Dim command has been associated with a new command which lets you select objects to automatically switch between different dimension types. So, the method to reset text position in Autocad 2016 is Hovering over the text and choose Reset text position from the list of options provided. Reference  link  (this process cannot be used for multiple dimensions) To reset text position of multiple dimensions, use DIMEDIT command and select HOME from the options

I recently saw that you can add names to your  Object groups in AutoCAD. Although, If you select the objects first and then group them, AutoCAD automatically gives them a name (numbered format) which will be categorized under unnamed groups. How to name a group: Select the group command from the Groups panel in the Home tab (or you can type group and enter)  > then type " n " and enter to type the name of group and enter . P.S: the name of the group can only be one word Advantages of using Group Manager: I don't yet have my full hands on the group manager, but here are the few advantages of group manager which I think will be useful. The group manager lets you change the group parameters (like rename, explode, add description)   You can also Re-Order the objects in the group in the way you want to order (though I'm not sure what's the use of ordering the group). If you don't know the name of the group, there's also a find name b...