For many years, Chris authored a popular series on AutoCAD fundamentals named "TIPniques". It was published in the monthly email HotNews newsletter sent out by AUGI, the world's largest CAD & BIM user community.
While AutoCAD has matured vastly over the last years, these fundamentals can still apply and help users understand, not just use, AutoCAD. So, rather than let them die, buried in the cloud somewhere, I've reposted them here.
If you haven't been faced with how to handle a digital file disaster, just wait. Or, better, don't wait; read these articles about how best to prepare and handle it.
AutoCAD has a number of ways to track (or log) various operations. Here's a series of articles that dig deeper into them.
Stacking usually focuses on fractions, but the idea of stacking (and the overall order of objects) can be beneficial but also problematic. Here's some related tips:
