Fantastic Friday #010 | AutoCAD – Customizing Your Crosshairs & Pickbox

Another Fantastic Friday. Fantastic Friday #010, in fact! As you start to enjoy the new features in AutoCAD 2021, did you know that you do not have to just use AutoCAD ‘out of the box’? You can customize the AutoCAD interface to fulfil your needs around what you are designing. I am going to cover […]

Terrific Tuesday #003 | Unbroken – The Invictus Choir

You may have noticed my absence from blogging for a week or so. Sometimes work, life, and general existence take precedence. Yep, I have been busy with CADFM and future posts will explain all of that. In the meantime, I want to blog about something thing totally unrelated to CAD, BIM, AutoCAD or Revit. I […]

Fantastic Friday #009 AutoCAD | Creating a title block (YouTube)

So, here we are again. Fantastic Friday #009. I am making the foray into the wilds of YouTube this week, to extend the reach of the blog and to give you even MORE knowledge. Plus, being at home, due to the coronavirus situation, gives me more time to give YOU more things to learn too! […]

Terrific Tuesday #002 | AutoCAD Quick Tip – Measuring Areas – Part 4

So, here’s Terrific Tuesday #002. Our last Terrific Tuesday was caused by my brain not functioning well in isolation, as I forgot what day bin day was. This time, it’s because it was Easter Monday yesterday in the UK, and I decided to enjoy the public holiday we have here, even though I was only […]

Fantastic Friday #008 | Revit 2021 (plus the new website!!)

So, here we are again. Fantastic Friday #008. A weird type of Easter starts today, so I hope you all have a great Good Friday and Easter weekend. I know that we are all going a bit stir crazy but, PLEASE stay at home and protect those who are vulnerable and on the front line. […]

Motivation Monday #008 | Hardware Config (Graphics) – AutoCAD and Revit

(Header graphic courtesy of AMD) Welcome to the Motivation Monday series from Not Just CAD! It’s the start of another week in lockdown for me here in the UK, and I’m sure most of you are currently working from home due to this nasty Coronavirus (COVID-19), and I sincerely hope you and all your family […]

Terrific Tuesday #001 | A Terrible Tuesday?

(Image courtesy of David Schwarzenberg on Pixabay) So, here’s a new one for you. Terrific Tuesday. Why is this late blog post called Terrific Tuesday? Well, if you are like me and working from home in isolation in the Norfolk countryside, you sometimes forget what day it is. So much so, that you forget to put the right […]

Fantastic Friday #007 | AutoCAD 2021

So, here we are again. Fantastic Friday (and sometimes Super Saturday) #007. Even though we are all self-isolating and working from home, those amazing bods at Autodesk have made sure that AutoCAD 2021 and various other products came out on time. Well done, Autodesk. And well done on stepping up with various other licensing periods […]

Motivation Monday #007 | Rectangular Array (ARRAYRECT) – AutoCAD

Welcome to the new Motivation Monday series from Not Just CAD! Every Monday, I will post you a tip or trick you can use in AutoCAD, Revit, PlanGrid, and/or other CAD and BIM tools from Autodesk that will motivate you to do better on a dreary Monday back at work. I’m sure most of you […]