Looking Back at 2022

In the past year, the AutoCAD CXD (Content Experience Design) Team has created some great content including the monthly Have You Tried articles. Our goal is to increase your everyday productivity and AutoCAD knowledge with the Have You Tried series.

We would like to share some of the data as we look back on the Have You Tried articles produced in 2022. The eleven articles we provided generated almost one million views by you, our customers. On average, the 2022 articles have a helpfulness rating of over 85%. We enjoy reading the comments and topic suggestions, please keep them coming.

Let's take a look back at the Have You Tried articles from 2022.

Dimension Substyles and Overrides

Learn how to use dimension substyles and dimension style overrides to get the dimension look that you want.

Breaking Objects

Use BREAK and BREAKATPOINT to break linear and curved objects at specified locations to create and modify objects.

The Stretch and Lengthen Commands

Learn how to stretch and lengthen various types of objects and the important role that proper object selection plays.

Matching Properties

Learn how to copy properties from one object to another, even between drawings, and how to control which properties to copy.

Restore, Repair, and Recover Drawings

Learn how to restore, repair, and recover drawings after your workstation or AutoCAD unexpectedly shuts down.

The Divide and Measure Commands

Learn how to place evenly spaced objects along another object, or place objects at specific intervals along another object.

Create Associative Center Marks and Centerlines

Efficiently mark the center of an arc or circle, or draw a line through the apparent midpoint between two lines or polylines.

MText Basics and Beyond

Learn some essential tips and techniques when working with multiline text objects.

Window, Fence, Lasso, and More

Learn how to select objects beyond using a rectangular window selection. Explore using a polygon or crossing polygon window, fence, lasso, and more.

What's Behind that Mask

Using object masks help to reduce the busyness around annotation and blocks in your drawings.

Purge and Overkill

Use the AutoCAD tools PURGE and OVERKILL to remove unused or duplicate items from a drawing and keep your drawing file clean from clutter.