Expert Training

It’s okay to cram for a geometry test, but don’t cram geometry, dimensions, text, or anything (and everything) else into your drawings. A real temptation exists to put a lot of stuff into every square inch of your drawing, using AutoCAD’s flexible panning and zooming capabilities to really work over all the available space. Unfortunately, the resulting drawing can be extremely hard to update and to use when you finally print it.

Instead of cramming stuff onto the sheet, use white (empty) space to surround areas of dense geometry. Put details on separate sheets. Attach a page of notes instead of putting a ton of text onto your drawing. Managing a reasonable number of drawings with less on each one is easier than having two or three killer sheets crammed with every drawing and every fact needed for a project.