Today’s AutoCAD tip is to always maximize your AutoCAD window so that it completely fills the monitor screen. I recommend that you do this, or verify that it is automatically done, immediately each time you open AutoCAD.
A “key” part of the AutoCAD user’s hardware, and a vital part of the CAD interface, is the keyboard. The computer keyboard is, in many ways, an archaic piece of equipment. Look at it and you can almost imagine little steel levers coming down from the underside of each key, like in the antique Remington typewriters.
This CAD tip comes from working with some of the best CADDsters around, and will not be found in any AutoCAD textbook. It involves creating a temporary “handle” object for a Move or Copy operation, in order to ensure that the base and destination points are placed exactly where you intend them to be.
Here is a list of CAD tips about one of the most frequent tasks a CAD drafter encounters: specifying a base point (let’s call it Point A) and a destination point (called Point B in this post).
This map of the AutoCAD interface from the Autodesk website is a good reference when we talk about the various parts of the screen.