/r/AutoCAD/

r/AutoCAD

51k members
r/AutoCAD is a subreddit with 51k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses autocad, drawing, cad, struggling with, and looking for, and they frequently recommend/review ergonomic mouse, trackball, and rendering software.
A great place to ask questions, give tips, and share knowledge all about AutoCAD.

Popular Themes in r/AutoCAD

#1
Solution Requests
: "Connect two lines with a curve"
20 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Supposed to give a "tip of the week" in a meeting tomorrow and can't think of an idea (Please help me think of something relatively simple for a mixed crowd. Drafters designers, engineers)"
17 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Early project: a simpler, free, online alternative to AutoCAD."
2 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "Using your Autocad skills to generate side income"
2 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Does all of the bugs in AutoCAD drive anyone else to near madness?"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I made a free AutoLISP tool to batch export all title block frames to individual PDFs"
1 post
#7
News
: "Is AutoCAD down for anyone else today?"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/AutoCAD

#1

Autocad

: "Is Autocad down for anyone else today?"
99 posts
#2

Drawing

: "How do you make your dimensions in the Drawings look professional"
29 posts
#3

Cad

: "My employer FINALLY upgraded my AutoCad from 2014 to current. What have I missed?"
21 posts
#4

Struggling With

18 posts
#5

Looking For

17 posts
#6

Help

: "Has anyone combined Python + AutoLISP workflows for AutoCAD automation?"
15 posts
#7

Pdf

: "Automating Floor Plan Pdf to DWG Conversion and Polyline Generation"
10 posts
#8

Lisp

: "Sharing my Lisps"
7 posts
#9

Block

: "Dynamic Blocks - Stretch + Move"
6 posts
#10

Learning

: "Training the rookie, start with the basics or go full LISP?"
5 posts

Products Discussed in r/AutoCAD

Ergonomic Mouse

17 reviews
#1
Logitech
4.5 from 8 reviews
#2
Razer
4.0 from 2 reviews
#3
Corsair MX
3.0 from 1 review

Trackball

6 reviews
#1
Logitech
4.5 from 4 reviews
#2
Kensington
4.0 from 1 review
#3
Elecom
4.0 from 1 review
#1
SketchUp
4.0 from 1 review
#2
InfraWorks
3.0 from 1 review
#3
Blender
3.0 from 1 review

Flair Used in r/AutoCAD

#1
Help
: "Supposed to give a "tip of the week" in a meeting tomorrow and can't think of an idea (Please help me think of something relatively simple for a mixed crowd. Drafters designers, engineers)"
56 posts
#2
Question
: "Automating Floor Plan PDF to DWG Conversion and Polyline Generation"
32 posts
#3
Discussion
: "I tried this discussion on the ACAD discord but had no luck.."
11 posts
#4
Request
: "Remove all instances of an annotative scale from all objects in a drawing so the scale can be deleted from the drawing."
2 posts
#5
Tutorial
: "Solution in case of another outage just like todays! Hope it comes usefull"
1 post
#6
Announcement
: "[TOOL] Local search engine for CAD objects"
1 post

Member Growth in r/AutoCAD

Yearly
+6k members(13.4%)

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Last updated: June 16, 2026