Supercharge your productivity with these valuable AutoCAD® tips and tricks that cover a wide range of topics, including the setup, configuration, and management of drawing templates, specialty drawing commands, and clever ways to enhance your workflow with existing commands. We'll reveal time-saving techniques to help you complete your tasks faster.

Our AutoCAD expert uncovers a wealth of insights, drawing from both recent AutoCAD commands and workflows, as well as some lesser-known gems that may surprise you.

• Arc/Circle smoothness in OPTIONS (REGEN) / Hardware Acceleration=OFF
• Design Center to drag-n-drop resource items between drawings
• Layer = NO PRINT
• Fields (sq ft of area, filename in Title Block, custom info in)
• Purge
• Audit
• Recover
• WHOHAS (network file in use)
• OPTIONS Drafting Tab, Selections Tab to change pick-box sizes
• Shift+RightClick for OSNAP menu
• Add Layer pull-down to QuickAccess toolbar, Layers accessible no matter which Ribbon is active
• Properties Palette
• Layer Groups (all frozen layers vs all thawed, Grouped by Dept, by sector, etc)
• Bottom-Right Status Bar choices
• Double-click Middle button/wheel for Zoom All
• Delete Duplicates (line on top of line on top of line on top of line on top of line on top of…)
• SKETCH (handy for tracing/outlining non-geometric entities from scanned photos)
• Xline (alignment axis lines on Construction Layer)
• Old School input methods (@) when DynamicInput=OFF
• LayerWalk (what objects are on what Layer)
• Divide
• Fillet/Chamfer+Shift=0
• Fence & Crossing Window Trim/Extend
• Scale Reference
• Rotate Reference
• “Mid Between 2 Points” OSNAP (such as during Move and referencing a startpoint)
• Hyperlinks
• PLine Linetype Generation
• Break up Hatch areas to better identify problem zones
• Crossing vs Window Selection
• Recent Selections:  P for Previous selection, “all” for All, L for Last “created”
• Quick Select (filtering)
• Grips, General & Grips, Polyline options
• DOS Screenmenu (redefine:  screenmenu, command: SCREENMENU = 1) / AutoCAD ONLY
• FILEDIA
• End of Day:  SAVEALL and CLOSEALL (it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!)
• Command Macro is:  ^C^Csaveall  ; _closeall