AutoCAD: Express Tools Workflow

Discover how to save time in AutoCAD by using Express Tools. Learn how to optimize your workflow for working with blocks, text modifications, layouts, drawings, and dimensions.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Express Tools: What Are They?

• Introducing the AutoCAD Express Tools
• Why use Express Tools?

2. Blocks

• Explode Attributes
• Replace Block
• List Properties
• Export Attributes
• Import Attributes
• Convert Block to XREF
• Copy Nested Objects
• Extend to Nested Objects
• Trim to Nested Objects

3. Text

• Arc-Aligned Text
• Modify Text
• Convert to Mtext
• Auto Number
• Enclose in Object
• Remote Text
• Text Mask and Unmask Text

4. Modify

• Move/Copy/Rotate
• Stretch Multiple
• Extended Clip

5. Layout

• Align Space
• Synchronize Viewports
• Merge Layout
• List Viewport Scale

6. Draw

• Break-line Symbol
• Super Hatch

7. Dimension

• Annotation Attachment
• Resetting text
• Importing and exporting dimension styles

8. Tools

• Command Aliases
• Attach Xdata
• List Object Xdata
• System Variables
• Extended Plan
• Adding linetypes

9. Web

• Show URLs
• Change URLs
• Find and Replace URLs

Conclusion

• Next steps