In this video I go over how to use the revcloud or revision cloud command.

A revision cloud indicates an area or piece of a drawing that has been or is going to be revised and a great way to draw them in quickly is by using this command.

To start the command simply type in ‘revcloud’ and hit enter.

Once started you can customized the options by changing arc length, object selection and style.

After that, simply click to start drawing your revision cloud and the cloud will follow your cursor, once you get close to the start point again it will automatically connect and close your cloud. It’s a pretty quick and easy process.

As always just watch the video below for an easy to follow tutorial.

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So I’ve finally gotten around to putting together a quick and easy to follow tutorial in order to insert a Title Block into your drawings layout space.

I feel like I have somehow been missing this as a video tutorial  before now and I don’t know why… I’ve been giving away my own title blocks  for months with no video or tutorial explain how to insert them in to your drawings.

Luckily the wait is over, below is a very easy to follow video walk through showing how to insert my free 8.5×11 landscape title block in to a black paper space/layout space.

Enjoy:)

I’m hoping this will answer any questions related to using or inserting a title block in to a drawing. But if you have any questions whatsoever please don’t hesitate to ask me in the comments below or the contact form

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In this quick tutorial video I go over the steps used to create a simple block in AutoCAD. By making a block of an object that you need to recreate often you can save time and effort in the long term.

Not to mention, you will be continually building a library of blocks that you can use in your future drawings and save your self time.

In this easy to follow walk-through I go over creating a very basic block, including how to choose the linework and objects that make up your new block. As well as the origin or insertion point and the various settings that can be selected in the block creation manager.

To bring up the block manager simply type “block” and enter.

Check out the video below to learn how to Create a block in AutoCAD:


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Modifying commands are very important when you need to change or edit linework in your drawings. Between these three commands you should be able to tackle most changes you come across.

The Trim Command:

Activated by typing “tr” and enter or “trim” and enter

Allows you to trim off lines that extend past another line. By choosing the lines you would like to use as a cut line and hitting enter you can then select any line that crosses your cutting line and it will be trimmed to it.

The Extend Command:

Activated by typing “extend” and enter

Allows you to select a line that you would like other lines extended into. You choose the ‘fence’ line first and the lines you would like to extend second.

The Break Command:

Activated by typing “br’ and enter or “break” and enter

Allows you to break a line anywhere along it by selecting two cut points. The portion of line between them will then be removed.

Watch the video below for a full tutorial and walk-through of how to trim a line, extend a line and break a line in AutoCAD:

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If you’ve ever needed to combine your individual line work in autocad then chances are you used or at least needed to use the ‘pedit’ command.

• The process is fairly simple.
• Type in ‘pedit’
• Hit enter
• Use ‘m’ enter to select multiple line segments
• Select all the lines you would like to join
• and hit enter to (y) to convert your lines to polylines if necessary
• This brings us to the pedit prompt where you can select options like close, join, width and a few others.
• To join our lines we’re going to type in ‘J’ then enter to activate the join command.
• Now we can choose a fuzz distance (this refers to the gap between any line ends that may not be touching exactly)
• Hit enter to join your lines!
• Another enter or space will end the command. We’ve now joined our separate line segments into a single polyline or polygon.

To view the whole process along with multiple examples and an easy to follow walk through just watch the video below:)

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When it comes to making your drawings look professional and really stand out in a crowd, hatching is by far the best way to give your drawings an artistic and even realistic look.

The hatch command in autocad can be used to easily show the difference between different materials and textures.

To start the command you can simply type in ‘hatch’ and hit enter, or click the hatch icon (located on the home tab under the draw area on the left). Once activated you then need to use the pick internal point or select object commands to specify the area you would like to hatch.

Once selected, simple use the drop downs to choose a hatch pattern, color, scale and angle options to customize and put the finishing touches on your new hatched object.

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Have you ever needed to add a radius between two lines before? Of course you have!

That’s why the fillet command exists..
In autocad the fillet command will allow you to create a radius or arc you may call it between two lines that meet at an angle.

By typing in ‘fillet’ and hitting enter, or clicking the fillet button on the home tab you will start the command. At the prompt you can type ‘r’ enter to input your required radius. The next prompt will ask you to select your first line, and once that’s done, your second line. At this point, as long as your lines intersect and the radius you choose will allow it, the lines will be joined by an arc!

Pretty cool right?! haha, just watch the video below and you’ll probably understand a lot better than trying to decipher what I just wrote:

So what’d you think? Do you like these quick tip videos, should I keep making them or would you like more advanced stuf like the post on how to insert a qr code in autocad ? Let me know below so I can keep you, my readers and viewers happy.

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I know the chamfer command may come a second nature to some CAD users, but there are many cadders out there that don’t use this great little command enough or even at all. So I figured I would put together a quick little video to show a few of its uses and hopefully help anyone that hasn’t learned the chamfer command or may just need a quick brush up.

A quick run down, to start the chamfer command, simply type in ‘chamfer’ and hit enter, or select it on the home tab, it is on the drop down for the fillet command.

Once started the command will allow you to precisely cut/trim an angle or object at a given distance or distance and angle. for more detail just watch the quick video below:

Hopefully you’ve got a better understanding of the chamfer command now and you can save some time by using it in your future projects.

Thank you for reading and watching!

If you have any questions or comments please leave them below, and happy cadding.

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Recently I have started adding qr codes to the drawings I do for my freelance clients. The idea had crossed my mind a few months ago when I wrote a quick tutorial on how to create them. I never ended up acting on the hunch, at least that was the case up to a couple of weeks ago.

If you don’t know what a qr code is I recommend checking out this post on how to make a qr code.

So why and how would adding this weird-looking symbol to my nice neat drawing help my client and add value to his or her product? Well I’ve found that by adding the code with it linked to an online copy of my clients drawings I can save myself the hassle of re sending them the digital files when they can simply scan the code and download or email them to themselves. This becomes even more useful if you work with  tech savvy clients who have an iPad or similar device that can run the autocad ws app.

By having a qr code linked to a digital set of your drawings it allows your client, while they are on site or in the field to simply scan the code of a paper set of drawings. This will let them download the full digital set on to their iPad or android device and subsequently open them in the autocad ws app!

Another great way to use a qr code can be to link it to the contact page of your site, this allows the client to quickly and easily ask for more work from you in the future. Kind of like a business card that is attached to all the work you do like your own interactive logo. This can even be accented if you get a little creative with it like some of my examples in the post about how to use a qr code as an advertisement.

I’ve included in the video below a demonstration of how to add a QR Code linked to your website to a set of drawings I am working on. Check it out Below:

 

I like this site to quickly create a qr code for free: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

What do you thing about using barcodes or qr codes to keep track of drawings or helping out clients? Do you use them or have any other great uses for these codes? Let me know in the comments below and happy Cadding!

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In episode 5 of the freelance lifestyle podcast I go over some of my favorite productivity Tips Tricks and Hacks for Freelancers.

This episode was recorded in my hot tub so please excuse the somewhat bubbly background noise lol. Sorry, I dont know what it is that makes me like making these in there, but for some reason I feel like my best ideas come to me when I’m relaxed. If it’s really annoying just let me know admin at betterateverything dot info and I’ll quite recording in there.

Also, I don’t plan to record all my episodes in there, just the odd one. Now back to the actual episode, I go over what I believe are the most distracting elements of any autocad user, freelancer and office worker.

Hopefully I cover each of them well and in enough detail for you but if you have any questions please just leave a comment or email me any time.

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After a few weeks of super cold weather and lots of snow, it looks like the end is close as today was slightly warmer so I was motivated to get filming!

In this newest autocad tutorial video I’ll show you how to move an object or text object from layout space to the model space, or in other words from one tab to another using chspace, the change space command.

This command is really under used and can be very useful if you receive a drawing with linework on the layout tab and you need to move the viewport extents. It can come in handy so many other ways too.

I remember when I first learned the change space command, it was like a light bulb turning on.I had been dealing with a set of old drawings, updating to current standards and adding in some new information. The original drafter had made a bunch of updates and drawn new linework in the paper space/layout tab and I needed to integrate the linework into not only model space but also have it to scale so I could insert this data as an external reference in another set of drawings. It was very disappointing, when I didn’t know how I would be able to transfer all the linework and text to the model space at the correct scale.

Well chspace fixed my problem! Watch the video below to see how to use it:

What do you think about the change space command?! If you’d like, please let me know below.

Yesterday marked the release of my fourth episode of the Freelance Lifestyle PodCast and I’m really stoked and proud of it. I’ve really enjoyed making the show and look forward to your thoughts and future episodes.

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Cheers and thanks for watching

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In Episode 4 of the podcast I go over my favorite and in my opinion the best places to find freelance work quickly when your just starting out in the freelance game. And If you’ve done it for a while, these tips will help save you some time, and find you work for your down time and in between larger projects.

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For office workers and freelancers alike, there are hundreds maybe even thousands of distractions we have to deal with every single day. How is it then, that we are supposed to get anything done let alone make money drafting from home or in a noisy office setting? Well I’m going to show you how, in this post I’ll explain to you the most common distractions and show you easy and almost all free ways to fix them.

Both locations (home freelancer/office worker) have their fair share of distractions, benefits, and winning qualities. The common factor in either though, is Us. An AutoCAD professional. Whether freelancer or an Office CAD user we are all distractable. And yet we hardly do anything to keep our selves focused on the task at hand. It’s precisely this reason why all too often we have a day or even multiple days when you just feel like nothing go done, no progress seemed to get made even though an entire day passed.

The Numbers Don’t Lie:

In pointing out some of my major distractions and showing you how I’ve solved them, I hope to save each and every reader at least an hour or two a week. Just think what you can do with a couple of extra hours each week, that’s 104 hours in a year, that’s just about 4 and a half days each year that can be recovered. You could take 4 more days holidays, or make 4 days more pay, just by making some minor adjustments. These numbers are even on the safe side, I’ve managed to gain a minimum of an hour per day by making these changes, I won’t go over that math as well but if your interested it’s just about 11 days/yr. Crazy I know.

Lets get started with the most common distraction.

Stop Checking Your Email!

Email is by far the most time-consuming and annoying part of my day, just checking my email takes 2 -5 minutes each time and that’s if I didn’t even get an email. What about when you have to reply to one, especially when its something that didn’t really need a response or could have been answered in a 10 second phone call. Or even worse starting to read and reply to email first thing in the morning only to just be finishing at 10:30 with most of your morning wasted. Talk about Frustrating. That is about all I will say about email, it really is the bane of my existence and yet I rely on it so heavily as a freelancer and even more when I’m working in an office.

But I Can’t just Stop Reading My Email?

If you’re like me and let’s face it you probably are, you are simply not going to be able to put an autoresponder in place that simply says

Thank you for your email, while it was greatly appreciated and I wish I could personally read it and reply. I simply get too many to be able to respond to them all and still have time get any work done, I hope you will understand and forgive me. If there is a very time sensitive issue, you would like to speak about working with me or need consulting work done you can leave a message for me at this number (555-555-555) and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Thank you for your understanding and have a great day.

Brandon.

 

If you think this email could work for you, then congratulations you are much more organized than me when it comes to email. Feel free to copy my example and your done.

For the rest of us I have a few simple rules, follow them and I guarantee you will save more time than you can imagine.

1. Turn off your email alerts! (this means no push email on your phone, don’t be logged into gmail on your browser, and certainly NO outlook alerts!)
2. Do not check you mail in the morning; it leads to wasted time and the possibility of too many back and forth emails in a day
3. Never leave an email with open-ended questions, always offer a solution and a second or third option if possible to prevent further emails and pointless back and forth
4. Limit your email checking to 3 times a day. Set these times and stick to them, you can even tell people this in an autoresponse (see below). I recommend 10am, 2pm and just before the end of the day 4 or 5 depending on your hours. At these times you can read your emails but only send responses at the 10am and 4-5pm times. And only to the most important and time sensitive.

(For the Autoresponse) You can set up an autoreply for your email that outlines when you will be checking your email and that you will get back to them when you can, but you are limiting your email time to be more productive and give a better value to your clients.

Why are You Still Surfing the Internet!

This one is a major time waster, it may seem innocent enough at first but trust me. You can easily eat up hours of productive work time. You’ve got to get in the mindset that work time is for working only.

Surfing the net is fine once you’ve finished your work for the day but don’t let it become a distraction when your motivated and ready to get things done. A harmless trip to your favorite news site can turn into just a quick facebooking, then a couple of blog posts you’ve meant to read. Before you know it, nothing’s done and it’s coffee time already.

To stop yourself and take things out of your own hands I have a simple recommendation. Install and use a website blocking plugin/program. I personally suggest either Rescue Time or Leech Block both of these apps will help you by limiting or not allowing you to visit sites that you tell them are you time waster. These handy little apps can save you hours just on their own!

I know this post is getting long but if you just stick with me I know you’ll thank me later;)

Limiting Workspace Distractions

I lump in a few things with workspace distractions, I’ll go over some of my most common ones and what I’ve done to limit or remove the distraction completely.

Cell Phones: This one is pretty straight forward, cell phones, especially personal ones are distracting. Simply turn them off leave them in your jacket or another room during work hours and you will be surprised how easy it is to ignore those texts from your friends that don’t need a response right away. If you really need to check it, only check during the email times mentioned above and turn it off in between.

Misc Noises/Visual Distractions:Noise and visual distractions can be hard to fix. They really depend on your situation. I’ve found the best solution for noise is to wear in ear headphones. They can really be a life saver, not only do they block out most noise you can also catch up on your favorite music. And even better, you can listen to audio books about business, freelance, or another subject your interested in. If you haven’t read/listened to Crush It by Gary V. I highly recommend it, great book about getting things done, doing what you love and general great life tips. (I know most people have read it, but I recently listened to the audiobook after reading it a few years ago)
Or best yet, keep up with the freelance lifestyle podcast.

For visual distraction, I have two solutions. One, position your monitors where nothing will be happening behind them (ie movement of people or windows) and preferably nothing in your peripheral vision either. Two, if you don’t have monitors plural, get another monitor. Two monitors not only keeps you focused on your screen, they alos massively increase ease of you and productivity in most software especially autocad.

My personal pick for monitor setup is two 24-inch Asus gems!

Set Goals! Sheesh

A quick and easy tip for my last point. At the end of each work day, write down 2 goals for the next day that would make you feel like you accomplished something significant. There should only be 2, maybe occasionally 3 but they need to be attainable in one day. They shouldn’t be overly larger or vague, try to break down a project into multiple goals for projects that can’t be finished in a single day.
By doing this you will keep yourself focused on smaller and attainable goals and give a positive feeling of accomplishment each day when you finish your two goals.

To go along with this I also keep a separate list of everything I’m working on and have to finish eventually. That way if you finish a goal early you can start on your next one

How Much Time Can You Save?

I’d honestly like to thank you, my reader for sticking with me and hopefully learning some great tips with me along the way. I know this was a longer post than I typically write but I feel it was worth it and hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing .
I would love to hear about any techniques or tips you may have, and if you have any success with mine please leave a comment and let me know.

Cheers,
Brandon

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In Episode 3 of the freelance lifestyle podcast I go over the first steps needed to start your freelance business and get organized to find your first clients.

I also include a productivity tip at the end of the episode so remember to stick around;)

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Today I was asked how to quickly bring a google earth image into plain AutoCAD and have it line up with some property lines from a city website. It’s a pretty quick and easy process but I’m sure this wasn’t the first time someone needed to do this, so I put together an easy tutorial video for you guys and have included it below.

I use a simple method of adding georeferenced pins in google earth and labeling them with their corresponding utm coordinates. Then you simple save an image of the locations to your computer as shown.

Next your going to attach an image from the external reference tab and browse to your saved google earth .jpg or (Read More to Continue) whatever image format you used. After selecting it simply insert your image anywhere in the drawing.

Now find your image and enter the ‘align’ command, the prompt will ask you to select your object to align, this is your image. The next prompt asks for your ‘first source point’ for this you will select the tip of one of your pins, hitting enter brings up the ‘destination point’ prompt. For this you will simply type in the pins labeled coordinates in x,y format. after pressing enter the process will repeat. Select your second source point and enter the new coordinates. After you’ve done this for the second time you will just hit enter on the third source point. This brings up a prompt to scale, select ‘y’ for yes.

That’s it, your google earth image is now georeference to utm coordinates!!

If you’ve got any questions or comments at all just leave em below and I hope this has helped at least a few of you!

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In this quick episode I broadcast from my outdoor hot tub on the coldest day of the year. I go over my favorite apps for working as a freelance or remote CAD worker and why I like them.

Let me know if you’ve got any favorite software that you simply couldn’t live without?

Cheers!

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In this first podcast of The Freelance Lifestyle Podcast I go over 9 quick reasons why you should start freelancing today.

I know I sound nervous haha, this is my first podcast ever, but I’m working on it. Let me know what you guys think, and if you’ve got any episode suggestions or requests just lemme know!

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Today was the closest I’ve been hit by the recession, it was also the day I realized just how important it is to have a backup plan in place and ready to go.
It started last week, I had heard through the office grapevine that there was a possible layoff in the coming weeks. You know the type of rumor, someone had overheard someone else who heard something about a budget cut or excess salary that needs to be trimmed.
At first I didn’t think much about it I’m my local office CAD and graphics manager, I’m busy and always hard-working not to mention consistent with producing high quality work. No problem right.

Nothing happens or is even heard for a few days, then some more rumors surface. The word is that the future ex employee is in either the administration or drafting groups. Now comes the worrying. I start thinking about who I’m up against, the various chargability figures and percentages. Have I been slacking off lately? Am I allowed to write blog posts when I’m slow, check my favourite rss feeds? Uh oh… it’s definitely going to be me… Panic, anger, worry, you know the drill. No matter what your experience is with being fired or layed off it never comes across in a rational thought. Always the emotions waterfall and you’ve been caught unprepared.

Today became d-day as 11:30am rolled around and I receive an email asking to schedule a quick  Noon meeting. I’ve never had a last-minute 12 o’clock meeting called before. And especially not by my inter office manager whom I almost never hear from.

The time is upon me and I’m as ready as I’ll ever be. In fact I’ve prepared for this day for last year and a half. My company is legally formed, I’ve got a couple small regular clients, my network is continually building with 100+ twitter followers, a blog gaining in popularity in my niche/job category, and a portfolio already in place. I could lose my job on my lunch hour and I’ll only need to ramp up my client search, start blogging some more and cut some unneeded costs to get by. Thank you freelancing.

I dial the number to connect with my manager, she answers and seems in good enough spirits. I’m slightly relaxed as she says hi and asks about the weather where I am. As I begin to answer, very cold and sno… I hear a beep. Another drafter from a western office has joined, I now realize this is going to be a conference call. I’m thinking to myself, whewww.. but at the same time I’m starting to figure it out in my head, two of our three head drafters are on the line now with our team manager… Where’s John… the third drafter out of an office only an hour and a half from me isn’t on the call yet..

That’s when our team manager starts in with the explanation how John is no longer with us… she went on to explain dividing his workload and existing projects.. I somewhat zoned out, both greatly relieved and at the same time worried, my mind whizzing. I wonder if John has any back ups like I have? Did he already have clients on the side, or is this going to seriously affect him financially and emotionally…

The meeting which seemed to take forever to start and even longer to finish was only 10 minutes at most, but it left me thinking even now hours later what if it was me? And almost just as much what would any AutoCAD drafter do if they were layed off? In this economy there really aren’t many full-time, well-paying positions available. So what can you, or I for that matter do to land on our feet, or just to be prepared for the worst.

It became clear to me this afternoon that freelance cad work is truly the best way to be prepared, and not only that but it’s also a great way to earn extra money from a skill we already have. Although I’ve known freelance drafting was always going to be my fallback it took this nerve-wracking and unnecessarily emotional day for me to know that I need to share my knowledge and experience in freelancing cad work with anyone that would like to learn it.

So today is the official announcement of the new site I’m working on TheFreelanceLifestyle.com  this site will serve as a new community where new, and veteran freelance and remote cad workers alike can share their stories, tips, and help each other to make sure we can all pursue a career in freelance autocad work.

Here are some key features that will be added for launch or integrated soon after:

• Private forums and community for discussion, questions and advice for all situations
• Resource section where I will provide guides, checklists, must have apps and software for remote working and walk throughs needed to begin freelancing
• Full Access to included premium downloads of Custom Title Blocks, drawing templates and other useful tools for branching out on your own
• Video section to go with how to`s, advice, tips and setup
• Lifestyle guides, tips and lessons in saving and managing billing or payments etc…
• Job boards with cad specific postings
  
• Access to my email and the ability to pm me for immediate and person responses to your questions.

For only a dollar a day you will get full access to all these features listed an much more. Not to mention the wealth of information provided by a community of our peers. It really is the best investment you can make for your career and future security in an economy like ours. Freelance Lifestyle.com will teach you the skills needed to start freelancing cad work on your own in a matter of days.

The time saved simply by using the drawing templates and title blocks is worth more that 5 month of subscription. Plus you’ll get information and skill to help protect yourself from losing your job.

Sign up for the mailing list here or below to be notified as soon as the community is opened.

I look forward to seeing you on the freelance lifestyle and hope I can help.

If you have any questions or comments at all don’t hesitate to ask!

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With each new year we get to look forward to a new version of autoCAD, and with each year I ask myself where can I get the best deal on AutoCAD?

Now typically when the decision has been made to upgrade to the newest and best version of a software, money isn’t typically an issue. This is simply because I need to buy the latest version regardless of cost since having autoCAD is a necessity when you’re a freelance designer..

But why shouldn’t I be able to save a bit of money on AutoCAD in the process? Sure, I won’t be getting it for under $50 like these cheap autoCAD alternatives, but at the very least I’ll save myself some taxes and probably even more.

With an hour or two to look around I was able to track down what I believe is the best deal on AutoCAD in terms of cost as well as fast shipping, service, and ease of use, where is this deal you ask? Amazon! Many autoCAD customers and deal seekers often forget to check out amazon and instead just buy directly from autodesk. I’ve since started using Amazon for most of my software purchases, for some reason I always believed the best deal would be directly from the producers website but I’ve since realized differently.

By going through Amazon you not only save time (their one-click buying option is awesome) but you also get a $450 savings on AutoCAD 2012!

Where to Buy AutoCAD

On amazon right now you can buy the full version of AutoCAD 2012 (comes with 1 year autodesk subscription as well) for $3,995.00 this is $450 off the normal price. Plus depending on where your physically (where you live, many states/provinces will be tax exempt) buying AutoCAD from you probably won’t pay taxes on it as well. Buying AutoCAD through amazon really is a no brainer if you  were planning to buy anyway.

I’ve only had great experiences with buying autoCAD through amazon and hope everyone else does as well. If you have any questions at all about the process or if you’ve found a better deal just post up on the comments below and I’ll respond right away!

Cheers,
Brandon

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