Believe it or not, font files are considered copyrighted material and are not automatically available for all off-the-shelf systems. Some companies that utilize different fonts (other than standard fonts) may not be available to others unless they have "purchased" the same ones...
My best tip when entering the "world" of 3-D is being confident in your mind of what you are looking at on the screen.
Many 3D objects shown on a 2D screen can be optical illusions. Your mind will bend and convince you that you are looking at something in one orientation when in...
IGES files are an old format for cad. IGES as well as DXF are different formats that CAD programs attempted to use to provide some way of transferring graphic (drawing) information from one system to another. DXF (and DXB) was actually developed by AutoDESK.
The problems in using such a...
Try identifing the block using "filtering". If you use "filter" with any command such as "erase", you can designate many things such as "blocks". When you use this, it displays a current list of blocks in the drawing. Check it out.
What previous contributors have said is true about ACAD being unitless. It is unitless only up till you plot. That is where you apply scale. Now, all that is easy to say but not easy to implement. When you draw something at 1x1 unit that is what it is. (1x1 unit) This is the ideal situation...
