1. Cate Sword Tips and Hints with CET Designer Cate Sword Consulting + Design To help you be more productive and simplify your life.

2. Quick easy tips: Lock/unlock text location – Select the text – Click on the lock symbol – All the text in the drawing will be locked/unlocked

3. Quick easy tips: Categories with AutoCAD drawing, text and dims – Select the item – Pick Tools/Categorize – Link it to the Category you want it to print with

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5. Big Project Tip: Component Blocks – Select the components – Right click, Create Components Block

6. Big Project Tip: Component Blocks – Change the name

7. Big Project Tip: Component Blocks – Edit the block -Delete panels that are not required -Put the remaining panels as low as possible – Set the label locations – Add a Data Field set to Block Name

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9. Use Blocks with Alternatives – One block for the building shell will update in all alternative

10. Big Project Tip: Use Blocks with Alternatives – Blocks are the same in all alternatives – so if you want unique ones to each alternative, make a clone with a different name.

11. Big Project Tip: Use Blocks with Alternatives – Rename the Clones – Make changes – Replace Component blocks

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