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This is the best place for AutoCAD beginners to ask basic questions. Please be as specific as you can when describing your problem.
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Got an AutoCAD question that doesn't obviously go in any of the other forums? Ask here.

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Troublesome text, units & scales, object snaps, dimensions, annotation, linetypes, toolbars, geometry, measurement...? Help is at hand.

Problems with layer management, layouts, viewports, printing/plotting, x-refs, dynamic blocks, images, e-transmit...? We're all ears.

Solid and surface modelling, UCS, cameras, lighting, materials, rendering and animation. Share your woes or experience here.

Sub-forums for each of the AutoCAD vertical products. If you have a question specific to a vertical product, please post it here.

Sub-Forums: Architecture & ADT, Civil 3D & LDD, Electrical, Map 3D, Mechanical, MEP, P&ID

Share code and customisation tips. Tell us about good sources of free lisp. See how customisation can make your working life easier.
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Discussion of CAD Management, network issues, drawing standards, layer naming, backup strategies, training concepts…

Report a bug, display your error messages, describe a quirk you have discovered or tell us how to crash AutoCAD.

Read all your favourite blogs in one place. This forum is an agregator for AutoCAD related RSS feeds. What does that mean?

This is the best place to ask questions if you're new to MAX or VIZ. Basic questions are just fine, so ask away!

General comments, queries, tips, tricks observations and news go here.
3ds Max Tutorials

If you're involved with creating visualisations or animations of the built environment with MAX or VIZ, this is the place to share your ideas, showcase your work and ask for help.

This is a general forum for all questions and comments relating to Autodesk products not catered for in other forums. Questions about Impression, Maya, DWG TrueView, NavisWorks, Buzzsaw etc. are all fair game.

Revit is Autodesk's Building Information Modelling (BIM) software and maybe in 5 year's time we'll all be using it. Better find out what it's all about! Questions about Revit Architecture, MEP and Structure go here.

It seems Inventor is on the rise. This forum is here to introduce the wonderful world of Autodesk Inventor. Ask questions, make comments and view tutorials.

SketchUp is a 3D application, currently taking the 3D design arena by storm. Since it can import and export DWG, it's the perfect partner for AutoCAD.

Rhinoceros is a 3D NURBS modelling application developed by Robert McNeel Associates. Use this forum to discuss Rhino and its associated applications; Flamingo, Penguin and Bongo.

This forum is dedicated to those of you using SolidWorks, the 3D mechanical design software.

This forum covers all the other design software you might use: Photoshop, Bryce, CorelDRAW, Illustrator, PowerPoint etc.
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Need to know more about the beautiful language? Maybe you need help and advice with Dreamweaver or FrontPage or just general web building stuff. Ask here.

If your question/comment/observation doesn't seem to fit in any other category, it should probably be here. Maybe you have a query about a software application not listed above, there's bound to be someone here who's used it.

Fancy writing your own tutorial? Got a tip you'd like to pass on? This is just the place for you. Show off your software knowledge and help your fellow designer in the process.

There are many AutoLISP routines posted at various places throughout this board. This archive brings the best of them together for easy retrieval.
How to use AutoLISP routines

Remember those long ago days of AutoCAD R12? This forum is specially for those of us who hanker after the old days. Huh?

Do you know where to get good royalty free images and models? Tell us here.

Know of any really useful websites, tutorials or other resources? Post links here.