Top 10 AutoCAD Efficiency Tips with Ryan Wunderlich

When using Report Creator to preview pipe runs with the 3D Parts template, the report groups all pipes and fittings together under each Short Description category.

The acad.cfb and acad.stb files are for the core installation of AutoCAD.

This happens even when AClauncher.exe is selected as the default application. Although Autodesk does not officially support double clicking a dwg to open the file.

Learn how AUDVISUALFIDELITY improves performance and controls model detail in Substation Design Suite: Physical for AutoCAD.

This blog covers some other miscellaneous tools that can often be used to support the P4A design process.

Need to show linear elements on cross sections? Take a look at this post!

AutoCAD products freezes or stops working after installing Windows Update on Windows 11, 25H2, OS Builds 26200.8246

AutoCAD Electrical won’t let you create additional records in the database with the “Unable to add record” due to your record having values that match an existing entry message.

The PDF Preset dropdown menu becomes greyed out and inactive when selecting the option to Publish to PDF in the Publish dialog in AutoCAD.

When working on AutoCAD drawings or creating drawing templates, especially for drawing sheets with large number of viewports, it is more efficient to use FIELDS for scale annotations

When opening a Plant 3D P&ID file from a cloud project, the tag text and/or instrumentation bubble text may shift. This behavior is intermittent and does not occur every time the P&ID file is opened.

Issue: You are plotting drawings that have OLE objects, and the plots with the OLE objects are either missing or poorly represented