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Shaun Bryant (CADjedi) is the LinkedIn Learning [in]structor whose AutoCAD Tips
and Tricks are seen worldwide on the LinkedIn Learning website. Come and join
him as he takes you through some of the AutoCAD tools you were never told about.
You'll discover workflows and methodologies you never knew would enhance your
AutoCAD skill set! He'll also show you some of the new cool stuff in AutoCAD
2025 software, and demonstrate how the new 2025 features can boost your
productivity, especially when meeting those ever-important deadlines. Become the
"cool kid" in the CAD office by learning new techniques to dazzle your
colleagues and elevate you to AutoCAD Jedi status! Who knows? You might even
become your office AutoCAD guru in the process!


KEY LEARNINGS

 * Discover new AutoCAD workflows and new tools from recent releases of AutoCAD
   that allow you to work smarter, not harder.
 * Learn the tips and tricks that the AutoCAD Jedis use daily.
 * Become a much more well-rounded AutoCAD user, enhancing your AutoCAD
   efficiency and productivity.


SPEAKER

 * Shaun Bryant
   Shaun is a seasoned CAD & BIM expert and part-time technologist in the AEC
   industry. With 35+ years experience with AutoCAD, 14+ years experience with
   Revit, and a varied background in training, technical, and sales, Shaun has
   built CADFMconsultants (www.cadfmconsult.com) from the ground up, taking it
   into a multi-disciplinary training and coaching consultancy business. As an
   Autodesk Certified Instructor (ACI) and Autodesk Certified Professional
   (ACP), Shaun provides services globally, working not only with Autodesk but
   also as a LinkedIn Learning [in]structor and subject matter expert for
   Dropbox, Certiport, AMD, and 3Dconnexion. He is also part of the Dell Inside
   Circle. As an Autodesk Expert Elite (EE), Shaun provides end-user support in
   the forums and works closely with Autodesk to refine and develop the Expert
   Elite program. He is also a veteran Autodesk University (AU) speaker,
   starting his AU speaking career in 2006. As an active AU Speaker Mentor, he
   also assists first-time AU speakers in developing their AU classes for a
   global audience. Shaun owns the Not Just CAD brand, which has a regular blog,
   LinkedIn newsletter, and podcast. He also writes articles for the official
   AutoCAD blog on the Autodesk website and regularly writes articles for the
   Autodesk Community. With an avid interest in current technology, Shaun is
   looking at how technology can be used to enhance the learning process. He is
   also getting involved in reality capture (ReCap), working with drones and
   unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to generate 3D models using photogrammetry
   and LiDAR scanning. When not surrounded by CAD, BIM, and drones, you will
   often find Shaun with a guitar, singing and songwriting. Check out “Shaun C
   Bryant” on Apple Music and other outlets to listen! Shaun lives in East
   Yorkshire in the UK, running CADFMconsultants from his home-based, self-built
   office studio, affectionately known as 'The Workshop''.

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SHAUN BRYANT: Welcome to AS1977-- Those AutoCAD Tools You Were Never Told About.
I'm Shaun CADjedi Bryant. And as you can see, there's various connection details
there out there on the socials. We've got Not Just CAD on the socials there as
well.

And as you can notice from the slide, I'm an Autodesk Expert Elite member as
well. Keep an eye on those wind turbines in that first slide, though. I've got
something to tell you about those in the few slides coming up.

I just want to pop in a safe harbor statement as well. Be aware that the
presentations during the event may contain forward-looking statements from
Autodesk. This is a legal document that just says, don't make any purchasing
decisions from anything that I may talk about in the presentation.

So Shaun CADjedi Bryant, who is this guy? So my home is Hull in East Yorkshire
in the United Kingdom. And the wind turbines are quite a special thing around
here. I live near the coast. There's loads of wind turbines everywhere that are
land based and also sea based out in the North Sea, just across the way from me.
But, also, the wind turbines are actually manufactured in Hull as well and
shipped out all over the world.

I'm the owner and lead consultant of CADFMconsultants here in the UK. And I also
own the brand, Not Just CAD, which is currently running a podcast, a blog, and a
LinkedIn newsletter. As you can see there, I do lots of writing. I'm a LinkedIn
Learning instructor. I'm also a Global eTraining instructor.

As mentioned, I'm an Expert Elite, Autodesk Certified Instructor, and Autodesk
Certified Professional. I work with various organizations as a subject matter
expert as well, Autodesk included. And I've been speaking at AU since AU 2006.
So I've been around the block a little bit.

I'm also an AU speaker mentor, looking after first-time AU speakers. I've been
using AutoCAD now for over 36 years. I've also been using Revit for over 15
years.

And according to some people in the USA, I do sound a little bit like the Geico
Gecko. If you don't know, hop on YouTube. Look it up. I've also been told by my
children that I am Ricky Gervais's stunt double. I'll let you decide.

So a little bit of background info into why I'm presenting this particular class
today. Let me take you back to 2023 when Autodesk released their 2023 State of
Design & Make report. Some of the key takeaways there are really important. And
the latest report, which is 2024, obviously, is all about disrupting the design
and make process. But I want to take you back to 2023 because the biggest
takeaway was that 79% of respondents said that training was important.

So why are you at AU? Well, you're here to be trained, and I'm hoping that
you're part of that 79% that think that training is important. I'm also a
LinkedIn Learning instructor.

And, again, LinkedIn also bring out a Workplace Learning Report. And their
takeaways this year, 7 in 10 people believe that learning improves their sense
of connection to their organization. 8 in 10 people think learning adds purpose
to their work.

So learning is so important. So this is why I've got this class here for you.
It's all about the tools in AutoCAD that you might not know about, that you
haven't been told about. So a lot of these are based on AutoCAD tips and tricks
on my LinkedIn Learning series. There's a QR code in the corner. If you scan
that with your phone or your mobile device, that'll take you to my LinkedIn
Learning tips and tricks series.

So the key words today are AutoCAD and the tools that AutoCAD provide. But we're
going to be talking about the tools you were never told about. And when we look
at those tools, we're going to talk about new stuff in the latest version of
AutoCAD 2025.

We're also going to talk about the daily stuff that makes you that little bit
more productive on a day-to-day basis. And we're also going to talk about the
efficiency and productivity stuff, the things that you can incorporate into your
workflows that make you that little bit quicker, that little bit faster, So
you're working smarter, not harder.

So here's our agenda for today. We've got the new stuff, the daily stuff, the
efficiency and productivity stuff. We've also got a bit of Q&A, if you want to
jump into that later. And I'll also let you know how you can keep in touch with
me afterwards as well. There's nothing worse than attending a class and not
having the contact details of the speaker of that class. So all of that
information will come towards the end of the presentation.

Let's jump into objective number one, the new stuff, which is AutoCAD 2025. Now,
I'm a beta tester for Autodesk for AutoCAD, and some of the new things that have
come through recently in AutoCAD have been pretty cool. There's some cloud-based
stuff, machine learning. There's even a bit of Autodesk AI in there as well.

Now, I'm going to jump through these little five points here. Some of them have
got videos, some haven't. So we're going to take a look at AutoCAD Smart Blocks
and the Autodesk AI behind it.

We're going to take a look at the improvements to hatching, also Esri maps. Keep
an eye on that for wind turbines as well. I'll explain in a little while. And
we've got the Trace updates, the Trace functionality in AutoCAD. And we're going
to talk a little bit about Markup Import and Markup Assist where we're utilizing
the cloud in AutoCAD as well.

Now, smart blocks. These are a new feature in AutoCAD 2025. And as the little
subheading says, Yep, There's AI in AutoCAD, absolutely. There's been AI in
AutoCAD for some time, but you might not have noticed it yet.

Smart Blocks allow you to enhance that block workflow. Working with blocks in
AutoCAD is great because you're reusing your design content. But Smart Blocks
take it to the next level. So you've now got new tools that work with AI
algorithms. And they analyze context and patterns to allow you to place blocks
quickly, easily, and, more importantly, in a smarter fashion, hence the term
Smart Blocks.

You now have things like block placement, block replacement, and object
detection. You've also got block conversion as well. These tools are really
clever and save a huge amount of time.

However, if you are running AutoCAD LT, these are not available in AutoCAD LT.
Be aware of that. Your consent will be required for access to your block data.

If you don't approve that consent and you say no to it, Smart Blocks can still
be used if you don't share your data. So it doesn't stop you using Smart Blocks.
You just won't be sharing any of that block data with Autodesk.

So I've got a little video for you. And we're going to take a look at one of the
smart AI bits of functionality in AutoCAD 2025. And it's under a tech preview.
So Autodesk have released it into the wild, but they're still getting consumer
feedback from it.

So if I just quickly run the video now. And you'll see we're looking at a floor
plan there in AutoCAD. And I've literally just run the object detection tool.
And now it's under tech preview. You get a little button there that tells you
that.

And I'm now going to review the object. So there's some columns there. And each
detection set, I can use the arrows and jump around and select whichever objects
I want to work with.

So I'm going to be looking at the doors there. And what I do-- I'll zoom in. And
now it's giving me the option to convert to a block. Now, I can use an existing
block if I want to. You'll notice there's some doors there. That's the AI
looking at all of that and the machine learning behind AutoCAD going, oh, you
might want this particular door block. Or you might want a new door block.

It depends on what you want to do. So if I click on New Block there, I can pop a
block name in. There's my block name going in like that. It's even letting me
know that one already exists. So we've already got an office door block.

So I'll give it office door new. I can use the geometry center or I can pick a
center if I want to. So I'll click there and pick a base point.

So I'm going to go down there, zoom in, and pan a little and go and find the
hinge on the door. There we go. Quick click like so. Job done.

So that kicks in like so. That door is now ready. I can basically tell AutoCAD
which layer to put it on. All ready to go. I can review the instances. There's
two in this case. Click on Convert.

They're now converted to blocks. Notice they're not highlighted in the detection
set anymore. And I can close that by clicking on the cross. And that is now an
AutoCAD block. There you go, block reference.

And it's on that layer EF Door that I specified in the block conversion palette
that popped up. That's how quick and easy it is. So those Smart Blocks, as you
can see, can save a huge amount of time.

So what we'll do now, we'll jump on to the next slide. And we'll talk about a
bit of hatching improvement. Finally, some of you might say. Hatching has been
around for a while. And some of these tools we've been waiting for quite a long
time. They're finally here in AutoCAD 2025.

The HATCH command provides now the methodology to draw hatches without the need
for pre-existing boundaries. So you can draw without a boundary, which is
incredibly useful. So you've got some system variables there now where you've
got a particular draw mode. You can also specify a path alignment and a path
width because you can now draw areas of hatch or paths of hatch depending on
which mode you use.

So if I just click and move to the next slide, again, a little short video here.
I'll just set it playing. So that'll jump in there. And I'll click on Hatch now.
And it's asking me for a start point of the hatch. And if I go down on the
shortcut menu there and select Mode, I can pick an area or a path.

So if I click on Path now, what you'll notice is it's asking for a start point
of the path. And I'm just going to check my hatch scale there, make sure it
doesn't look really solid or anything like that. So I'll pop that up to 25 in
this drawing.

And I can set the alignment. Do I want it center, inside edge, outside edge? And
also, the width of the path, I can specify that. So I'll go for 6 feet, in this
case, in an imperial drawing.

If I click now, I'm now literally hatching along that path with a width of 6
feet. And the lovely thing about that is I can now highlight paths of entrance
and exit in my building, emergency exit paths. And if I select it, can you see?
It's a nonassociative hatch boundary with grips.

That's how quick and easy it is. It's so clever. And I can just erase that, and
we're back to square one again. That's how quick and easy it is to hatch. It
really is easy.

And if we do an area, we'll just change the mode on the shortcut menu. So I'll
specify area now. And I'm just clicking. Notice there's no other objects or
geometry forming that boundary.

So as I click around, just a random area of hatching there. And there's my area
without a boundary. Those tools will save you a huge amount of time when you're
working in AutoCAD. So there's some clever stuff going on with the HATCH command
as well, you'll notice.

So what we'll do now, we'll jump again to the next slide. And this is the Esri
maps one. Now, as I mentioned, I live in a place called Hull in East Yorkshire
in the UK. And what I found was when I was messing around with the Esri maps,
setting up my presentation, these are all the base map styles that you can use
courtesy of Esri. Esri have linked up with Autodesk and are providing all of the
Esri geolocation information.

So I'm running this on the Esri imagery setting. You can see that in the slide
on the right. It's highlighted in that dropdown there. Now, if you look at that
imagery, can you see all those long, thin objects sitting on the dock there?

Well, that's the river Humber just across the way from Hull where I live. And
all of those long, thin objects are wind turbine blades. And if you move along
to the dock on the right-hand side there, that's where the ships pull in, and
those blades get loaded onto the ships to be transported all over the world.

Now, the lovely thing about Esri maps is it's very quick and easy to use. And
you literally geolocate by putting in your location into the dialog. And it will
find the Esri map that you need for your location and select the GIS settings.
There's thousands of different ones. There's Google Maps. There's Ordnance
Survey maps and so on.

Now, let's take a look at trace updates as well. Trace is a great tool in
AutoCAD. It's been there for a while. But the updates to Trace include an
improved toolbar. The toolbar is much better, I think, in my personal opinion,
and you can edit external reference files while in the Edit Drawing mode as
well.

So if you look at the slide there, can you see on the right-hand side? You've
now got the toolbar highlighted in red there. You can see now whether you're in
the trace or whether you're in the drawing. It's a lot clearer now. You've got
two different buttons.

But you can also specify things like transparency on the overlay, which is the
trace or the geometry and the trace as well. And you can see the trace is there.
It's called Entrance REV1. So my trace there-- I'm in that trace at the moment
because it's highlighted on the toolbar.

So let's just jump along, and we'll talk now about Markup Import and Markup
Assist. Now, again, these have been around a while. Markup Assist can be applied
to external references now.

So you'll notice there on that part of the slide-- can you see that information
has been brought in? It might be an external reference file. And I can now
insert either a polygonal or rectangular ref cloud around that in a markup.

Now, that markup might be a PDF that I've inserted into my drawing, for example.
So you can see there that I can specify revision clouds quickly and easily with
that markup assist. And, again, you're marking up the drawing, the DWG file,
from a non-drawing file such as a PDF.

Multiple text markups are now available and can be applied to a single Markup
Assist text insertion. So you'll notice that you can see the word heritage on
the screen there, for example. There's also some text next to that in the
revision cloud as well. You can see the little red line through it there.

So depending on which text entities you want to work with, you can go and select
them. But you can also select them as a group of pieces of text and work through
them one by one. And then you obviously insert those either as multileaders, as
multi-line text, or you can update existing text in the drawing as well.

So you use the Select Markup Text option to add and then select the text markup
objects to add. And you can see there, see that little A in the red square
there, that allows you to go and select each piece of markup text and add it to
the selection set rather than do it individually. That's one of the really nice
new tools in AutoCAD 2025.

So you can see there, I can change the text style as well. Annotation styles are
now available, which is really, really useful because you can now apply your
multileader styles and your text styles to the text that you've brought in
through Markup Import and Markup Assist.

So what you can do there is information from a non-CAD file, say your inserted
PDF, can be converted to the current text style that you're using in the DWG
file. Again, little time savers that just save you that time and make your day
that little bit easier in AutoCAD 2025.

So that's the AutoCAD 2025 stuff covered. That's just some of it as well. I'm
only jumping onto little bits and snippets here, little tips and tricks because
I could easily do a whole day on this rather than just my presentation time I've
got today. So let's jump into the daily stuff.

Now, these are the things that I use personally that just make my day a little
bit easier and a little bit quicker. So we're going to take a quick look at
sticky ribbon panels. Now, some of you may know them as something different, but
you can work with your ribbon panels in AutoCAD. We can save customized
workspaces. We can tweak the AutoCAD workspace to our own needs and then save it
as our own workspace.

There's also a really nice tool called Dimension Layer Override, known as
DIMLAYER. That came around in AutoCAD 2020, and that's a really nice tool that
allows you to make sure that your dimension annotation is always on the right
layer. We're also going to take a look at finding non-purgeable objects in order
to purge those non-purgeable objects. You'll understand that when you see it.

We'll also take a little look at Smart Blocks and how they get placed in the
drawing. Now, again, remember, Smart Blocks are an AutoCAD 2025 piece of
functionality. So you do need to be running 2025 for those to work.

So sticky ribbon panels, what are they all about? Well, what you need to think
about here is Post-it Notes. Imagine you're taking your ribbon panels as a
Post-it Note and sticking them somewhere else in that window on the screen where
you're running AutoCAD. They can be dragged and dropped into the drawing area.
And they're great for when you're working from a ribbon tab that doesn't include
the tools that you need.

Take a look at the slide there. You can see that I've got the Draw panel and the
Modify panel in the drawing area, but I'm actually working in the Annotate tab
on the ribbon. So the Annotate tab on the ribbon doesn't normally include the
Draw tools and the Modify tools, but I can now annotate as well as draw and
modify all in the same space at once. They can be expanded quickly and easily.
And they just make your daily AutoCAD workflow simpler.

Now, the nice thing about that is, like I said, you don't have to be in the Home
tab on the ribbon to work in Draw and Modify anymore. You can be in the Annotate
tab on the ribbon instead. So let's take a little look and see how those sticky
ribbon panels work. It's another short little video, so I'll just get that
running.

And you can see we've got a nice little floor plan of an office. I'm just
literally dragging and dropping that panel into the drawing area. It's just a
click, drag, and drop. So I click on the title bar of Modify there, bring that
in as well, pop that underneath the draw one, job done. That's how quick and
easy it is to bring them in. Doesn't take long at all.

Now, the nice thing about that is if I now jump to the Annotate tab on the
ribbon, I've got all my Annotate tools, as well as my Draw tools and my Modify
tools. You would have thought, though, when I returned that to the ribbon, it
would go to the Annotate tab on the ribbon. Well, here's the clever bit. Watch
this. As I return each of these panels to the ribbon by clicking on the little
icon there in the panel itself, where have they gone?

Let's jump back to the Home tab. If you look at the Home tab on the ribbon, Draw
and Modify, they're back in the right place on the ribbon so you don't have to
worry when you're returning them to the ribbon, whether they're going to go to
the wrong place. AutoCAD knows. It's quite clever like that. And it's built into
what they call the CUI, Customize User Interface part of AutoCAD.

So that's your sticky panels. Let's just jump on again like so. And I'm leading
on from the sticky panels here because what we're doing with the sticky panels
is we're adjusting the AutoCAD interface, so if you think my AutoCAD interface
rather than the default AutoCAD interface.

So you'll notice there on the slide-- can you see I've got the dropdown there?
I've got various AutoCAD workspaces. You've got the Drafting & Annotation, 3D
Basics, 3D Modeling. Underneath that, I've got my own customized workspace. SCB
are my initials, so I just called it SCB AutoCAD.

So it's quick and easy to set up directly from the AutoCAD status bar. And it's
then saving that workspace to the CUI in AutoCAD. And you can set it up as a
dropdown on the Quick Access Toolbar like you can see in the slide as well,
makes it nice and easy to find. And, again, it's making that daily AutoCAD
workflow just that little bit faster because your interface is then customized
to your needs rather than the default settings.

So, again, let's just jump along. And another little video here. So you can see
we've got the sticky panels already in place there. So they're there floating
around in the drawing area. Now, at the moment, we're using what they call the
default AutoCAD workspace, which is called drafting and annotation. Click down
there on the status bar, and you can see the tick there next to Drafting &
Annotation.

So I click on Save Current As, and I give my new workspace a name. So as you can
see there, it's CB AutoCAD, quick and easy, just a simple name there. Click on
Save. That adds that to the CUI settings of AutoCAD. So I've now got a new
workspace set up where those sticky panels exist in that particular setup.

So if I hop up to the Quick Access Toolbar, I can now customize it, you'll
notice. And workspace is one of the customizations that I can apply. So I click
on Workspace. You can see now my workspace is currently SCB AutoCAD.

So if I click on the down arrow, there's Drafting & Annotation. If I click on
Drafting & Annotation, give it a few seconds, and we're back to the default
settings, Withdraw and Modify back on the Home tab on the ribbon.

Now, here's the nice thing. If I now flip to my customized workspace, go back to
SCB AutoCAD, and there we go, there's my sticky panels again. That's how quick
and easy it is to customize your workspace in AutoCAD. And, again, it's just one
of those little time savers. And when you set it all up on the Quick Access
Toolbar, top left as well, it does make your life that little bit easier.

Dimension Layer Override. Now, this is another one, again, my dimension layer.
Think about it as a layer that you know will always be used when you're putting
dimension annotation on your drawing. What it does is it sets a specific
dimension annotation layer at all times. You don't have to think about going
into the Layers panel on the Home tab on the ribbon.

What you do is you go into the Annotate tab on the ribbon and into the
Dimensions panel. Use the command DIMLAYER on the dropdown, and set your current
layer to be different to the dimension layer. And, again, it's making that daily
AutoCAD workflow that little bit quicker. So let's jump in there. And, again,
another little short video just to show you how it all works.

So there's the Layers panel on the Home tab on the ribbon. So you can see there,
there's all my layers in the drawing. Current drafting layer is set to Chairs,
not normally a layer that you would put dimensions on.

So if I hop now to the Annotate tab and into the Dimensions panel there, can you
see that we've got the dimensions layer showing up in red? That is your
dimension layer override. So I'm saying to AutoCAD now if I place any regular
dimensions using the Dimension Annotation tools, they will be on that dimensions
layer.

And I'm going to prove that by going back to the Home tab. And what we'll do,
we'll use the annotation panel on the Home tab and select a dimension. So we're
going to go for linear, nice and easy, nice linear dimension, and we'll just use
some endpoint snaps.

So I'm going to come around here, and there's an endpoint snap there,
left-click. Another endpoint snap on the end there, and left-click. And just
drag and click again. So you'll notice that is on the red dimensions layer. It's
not on the green chairs layer.

So, again, another endpoint there. Place another dimension just to prove that
I'm not cheating. There's our dimension there like so. And you can see how quick
and easy that is. It's incredibly quick and incredibly easy to set up, but you
then don't have to think about jumping back to the Home tab and into the Layers
panel to change your current drafting layer to the layer you want your dimension
annotation to go on.

Now, this is a good one. And a lot of people ask me this one, especially when
I'm training in the classroom, when I'm running sort of an AutoCAD essentials
course. Purge is a wonderful command in AutoCAD. It can also be a very
frustrating command in AutoCAD. So what you need to think here is how do I purge
objects that are already in the drawing, they're already being used?

So if you jump into the PURGE command-- you can just type PURGE if you want to.
There is also a find non-purgeable items icon on the ribbon as well, would you
believe? But what it does is it puts the non-purgeable objects into a selection
set and zooms into those objects.

Now, those objects, if they're erased from the drawing-- and you'll notice in
that little screenshot there on the slide, that block, the PC block is erased.
That means the block can then be purged. So that makes your daily AutoCAD
workflow much simpler because you know that you can go and locate all of the
particular instances that you want to erase by using the non-purgeable items
part of the PURGE command.

So let's jump across into another little video. This is how we use those
non-purgeable objects in the Purge command. So what I'm doing here, I'm going to
use the Application menu. And I'm going to pop down here to Drawing Utilities.
And you'll see that we've got PURGE there, like so.

So you can do that. You can type purge and press Enter if you want to. And it's
also on the ribbon somewhere as well. I tend to just type purge and press Enter
a lot of the time as you can see there. That's what I would normally do. Type
purge, press Enter, brings up the Purge dialog.

And you need to make sure that you click on non-purgeable items, remember,
because you're looking for non-purgeable. All those blocks there can be purged
quickly and easily because AutoCAD is saying they're not being used. We want to
find non-purgeable

So there's our PC block. That's our little red computer block there on the
desks. And what we're going to do is we're going to come into the Details panel.

So you can see there the block definition cannot be purged because it's in the
drawing. So you can see there that there's four of them on layer PCs or PCs.
Click on that, zooms in, and it selects all of the blocks like so.

So what I can do now is if I want to erase those blocks, I can. They can be
erased quickly and easily. And then I can purge that PC block and perhaps bring
a different block into the drawing. That's how quick and easy it is using
non-purgeable objects.

We're jumping, again, into another AutoCAD 2024 specific tool. Now, I love this
tool because I've never had this before in AutoCAD, where AutoCAD actually does
things for me automatically. So what you need to think here is you're inserting
blocks into your AutoCAD drawing. But they're blocks that actually know where
they're going.

So AutoCAD is learning how the existing blocks are placed in your drawing. And
what it does is it displays what they call an inference of the next block
placement. That automation gives you suggestions close to similar geometry.

So if you look at the slide there, the original block above the wall, above the
little sort of partition wall there, arrowed, is set into that corner. The block
below it, the desk block below it-- I'm hovering. You can see the specify
insertion point prompt.

And what AutoCAD is saying is, do you want this block oriented the other side of
the partition wall in the same alignment as the existing block? That's really,
really clever. And it makes that daily AutoCAD workflow automatically quicker.
You don't even have to specify this. It just does it for you straight away.

And as you're floating around in AutoCAD trying to place a block, you will find
that yellow line will appear, and your blocks will automatically know where
they're going to go. It's incredibly clever technology. And it's all using
Autodesk AI and the algorithms behind that.

So let's have a look at how this works. I'll jump into the video. You can see
we've got the desks there. So all of the desks are white blocks.

So I'm just going to hover there. There you go. There's the executive desk. I'll
insert block, and there's my desk, like so.

Now, as I hover around, can you see the object snaps are kicking in? It's going,
do you want the block there? Not really. I don't want it there. So I'll move
around.

And as I come down to the wall here-- give it a few seconds, and you'll find
that it will suddenly go, oh, there you go, do you want it aligned there with
those yellow lines? And it's like, yes, please. I just click, and my block is
automatically aligned where I want it to go.

I don't have to rotate. I don't have to move. I don't have to copy. It's done
because the Autodesk AI is giving me an inference of the block that I might want
to use. It's really clever stuff, so make sure that you utilize those smart
blocks. Work smarter, not harder with AutoCAD.

We're moving on to the final objective now, which is objective 3. Now, this is
efficiency and productivity stuff. Now, this is the kind of stuff that I use on
a daily basis that just makes me a bit quicker, a bit smarter. It just allows
you to be that little bit more efficient.

And if you're efficient and productive, it hits the bottom line. You become a
bit more profitable as well. You're saving time working on other things with
that time that you've saved.

Now, some of these are really, really simple. And to be honest, I might be
teaching you to suck eggs a little bit. If I am, just ignore me. But these are
tools that I use on a regular basis just to make me that little bit more
productive, so the shortcut menu. You've got the repeat tools. You've also got
enter and spacebar where you can repeat a command.

What about popping your layer dropdown on the Quick Access Toolbar so your layer
dropdown is always available? And using the Centerline object instead of a
dimension style center mark, that then allows you to utilize all one object in
the properties rather than a group of objects that are in a dimension style. It
gives you that flexibility to work with a separate piece of geometry.

Let's talk about object snaps and object snap overrides as well. They're
incredibly useful. And last but not least, one of my absolute favorites,
selection cycling. It's a great tool. You can switch it on in the status bar.
And if you've got objects on top of each other, lines, blocks, polylines, it
allows you to select the appropriate one to work with. So let's move on to
efficiency and productivity stuff.

Let's take a look at our Shortcut menu. Now, what you need to think here is
every time you right-click in AutoCAD, it's repetitive. And you're often in and
out of that Shortcut menu because, obviously, it's context sensitive as well,
depending on what you're doing. So the Shortcut menu does actually allow for
very easy repetition of any commands you might have used and any other recently
used commands.

So you'll notice there on the slide I've obviously performed an arrays command,
so it's offering me the option to repeat the arrays. Or if I go to recent input
there, I've got arrays, ellipse, rectangle, hatch, circle, or line. So I can
repeat any of those commands, those recent commands.

But did you know pressing Enter also repeats the last command used, so does
spacebar? So those tools there, if you're a bit of a keyboard warrior in
AutoCAD, allow you to utilize your keyboard functionality a bit better as well.
So it's just making those repetitive tasks that little bit quicker.

So let's have a look at repeat, enter, and spacebar. Now, you obviously can't
see my keyboard right now. But if I run the video, you'll see what I'm talking
about when we start doing this kind of stuff. So I'm going to go to the line
command, come into the drawing area, and I'm just going to draw a line.

Now, this is a very random line. I'm just clicking on that endpoint there. And
we'll pop across to the endpoint on the other partition there like so. So
there's my line. So I now just right-click and select Enter to finish a line
command. So that was my last command used.

So if I now right-click, I can repeat the line command. And I can also repeat
any recent input there. So if I click on Repeat Line or Repeat Input, you'll see
there that I can go and repeat any command I want to that I've used recently.

So that really helps me out. So I can repeat line, click on it, and you'll
notice when I click on it now, it's prompting me for the first point of another
line. So I'll just draw another line there. And you can see, I click on Enter.
That finishes the line command.

Now, you can't see my keyboard at this point, but I've just pressed the Enter
key. And you can see there, oh, back at the line command again, very quick and
easy. So I can draw another line. So I'll just do endpoint there. Take that
vertically down using the object snap tracking. Right-click and enter to finish
the line.

So that's another line drawn, but just by pressing Enter. I've now pressed the
spacebar. Click on the endpoint there. Drag across, a little bit of tracking
there. Right-click and enter to finish. And I've drawn another line.

So that's saving me having to keep going up and down to that line command on the
Draw panel on the Home tab on the ribbon. So it's allowing me to work quicker
and more effectively with the interface in front of me, the Drawing area and the
Shortcut menu.

Let's take a look now at those layers on the Quick Access Toolbar. Now, some of
you may do this already, but I always think of it as it gives me the layer
dropdown so that it's always accessible.

Now, the layer dropdown is not always accessible on that layers ribbon panel.
You might be in the Annotate tab, the Parametric tab. So it would be really nice
to have all of your layers in a dropdown that's always available. This is a bit
like those workspaces that we talked about earlier.

So you can customize the Quick Access Toolbar and add your layers to that
dropdown. So the layers are then always visible on that Quick Access Toolbar. It
just makes access to the drawing layers that little bit easier.

You'll notice as well in the slide there you can see that you can turn your
layers on and off. You can freeze and thaw your layers. You can also lock your
layers on that dropdown, which allows you to obviously work very closely with
your layers. You can also click on the color blocks, and it will take you
straight to the color settings in AutoCAD as well to change your layer colors.

So let's jump into the video now and take a look at how we work with those
layers on the Quick Access Toolbar. I'll play the video. And as you can see,
we're in an office floor plan again. And we're going to the Layers panel on the
ribbon there. So if I want to change my layer, that's where I would normally go,
Home tab and Layers panel. So you see there's the Layer dropdown.

Now, wouldn't it be nice if I had somewhere where I could get to those layers
when I'm in any tab on the ribbon? So I've gone to the Annotate tab, so I want
to play some dimensions on the drawing. But if I want to set, let's say, the
current layer 2 dimensions, I've got to go back to the Home tab on the ribbon,
select Dimensions like so, and then that becomes the current drafting layer.
Obviously, take the dim layer override out, that we've already talked about. I'm
just using dimensions as a sample layer.

So if I now customize the Quick Access toolbar and select that Layer option,
you'll notice now that I've got the Layer dropdown always accessible on that
option there. Can you see? So it just drops straight down every time. I don't
have to think about what tab I'm in on the ribbon.

So I can go back to the Annotate tab now, work on my annotation, placing
dimensions and so on. I don't have to think about it anymore. There's the Layer
dropdown on the Quick Access Toolbar. I've still got all the same tools like
lock, unlock, freeze, thaw, and so on. It's all in there. But it just saves
time.

And I can go and change my layer to any layer, regardless of what tab I'm using
on the ribbon. Again, working smarter, not harder to save that time on those
picks and clicks when you're working in AutoCAD.

Now, the next one is an interesting one. It does depend on your company
standards. It does depend on how your drawings are set up. But I discovered this
quite a few years ago now in AutoCAD. And I now use Centerline objects instead
of the center marks in my dimension style.

So what you've got to think about here is you've got one object instead of many
objects. So if you look at the slide there, center marks in a dimension style
have to be used with a dimension such as a radius or a diameter. So you can see
the radius 500 there on that smaller green circle on the slide. So that means
that that center mark is part of a dimension style. If I want to change the
settings of it, I've got to go in and edit my dimension style. I've got to
change the settings in the dimension style.

Now, the larger circle in the slide is using a Centerline object, which is
available on the Annotate tab on the AutoCAD ribbon. And it's all one object
with grips and specific object properties. So what you're doing there is you're
making your drawings a little bit leaner for a start because, obviously,
something like a radial dimension doesn't have all that center mark on it. It
just has the radius, and that's it.

So it's very quick and easy. And you see the properties there on the slide as
well. There's various bits of geometry that you can set, such as the cross size,
the cross gap, and the extensions as well. And it just makes life that little
bit quicker and that little bit easier. So you can see there, there's the
properties. Just allows you to work with one object.

So let's have a look and see how that works in the drawing. So there's those
circles that were in the slide. So I'm going to go now to my dimension style
there, architectural millimeters. So it's a metric drawing in millimeters.

If I go to the Dimension Style Manager, there's Architectural MM there. I'll
select it. And what I need to do there is modify that. So I'm having to go into
the dimension style to change those center marks.

So when I come in here, I need to go to the Symbols and Arrows tab, you'll
notice. So there's lines, symbols and arrows. And if I come down to center
marks, I've got the option of a center mark or lines. I've then got to specify
the size of them as well.

So all of that has got to be preset in a dimension style. I would then OK that.
And I would then apply that. So I select that there, make sure it's the current
dimension style, and then I would close the dimension style manager. Lots of
work there, don't you think, just to set up those center marks in my drawing?

So what I'll do now is I'll jump into the Annotation panel there on the Home tab
on the ribbon, and I'll pick Radius. So that then allows me to place a radius in
the drawing. So I select the Circle, click on it, and there you go.

There's my radius 500. And I've placed that radial dimension, and the center
mark automatically appears like so. That's great. But that's all tied into the
dimension style.

So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to make sure that Centerlines is my
current drafting layer. And I'm going to hop over to the Annotate tab on the
ribbon. And you'll notice there's now a Centerlines panel there.

So you'll notice I can leave the dimensions layer there. And I don't need to
worry about that. If I want to place dimensions, that's great. Dim Layer
Override is in place, but their center mark there on the ribbon.

So if I now click on that circle, it places a Centerline object instead of
anything involving dimension styles. So that's all one object, a bit like a
block, a bit like a polyline, and I can just select it. I'll do a right-click,
hop down the Shortcut menu to Properties. And you'll notice that the extensions
there are not very big at the moment. So I just bring that in a bit closer so we
can see what we're doing. And I'm going to change the extensions to 200 in this
case, 200 millimeters.

In fact, I've changed my mind, 250 there. So you can see 250 gives you a
reasonable size, as you can see. And each of those extensions, you just edit
them in the Properties palette. And they update in the drawing automatically.

So it's just one object, and it's so much easier to work with. And if you click
on those grips, you can see the 250. So if I click on any of those arrow grips,
I can also visually just drag those and work with them that way and perhaps just
type in the extension that I want it to be.

But I think personally those Centerline objects are just so much easier to work
with than the ones preset in the dimension style. You have to use those center
marks in the dimension style with a dimension. You might not want a centerline
with a dimension. So that's where the Centerline objects come in. And then what
you do is you set your dimension style to have no center marks, and you use
those Centerline objects to dimension from instead.

Now, this is one that, again, I might be teaching you to suck eggs a little bit
on this, Osnap and Osnap Overrides. Now, I love these because they just make my
life easier. Well, for one, you should be using object snaps in AutoCAD anyway.
If you're not, I'd be worried because you should always be using object snaps to
draw accurately and precisely.

Now, it's easier to always set your favorite object snaps. AutoCAD remembers
too. So you can close the drawing, close AutoCAD. When you open it again, those
settings will still be there. So my go-to, useful settings are endpoint,
midpoint, center, intersection, and extension. You can see on the slide there,
I've set them up in the little pop-up menu for the object snaps off the status
bar.

But the Osnap Overrides provide a quick and easy access to all the other object
snaps. And you can also bring that up at any time by doing shift and right-click
on the keyboard as well. It just makes object snaps a snap to use. You see what
I did there, right?

So let's have a little look at this. Let's see how it all works. So you see
there there's the Osnap Overrides menu. That's what happens when you shift and
right-click.

So there's the difference between the two. The darker gray is what they call
your running object snaps off the status bar. That pale gray one is the Shortcut
menu when you do the shift and the right-click. So there's your Osnap Overrides.

So let's work on that. Let's have a look, see how it all goes in the video. So
if I run it now like so, I'm going to draw a line. And come into the drawing
area. So it's asking me for the first point of my line.

So there's an endpoint snap. Very quick and easy. And I'm going to come over
here, and you'll see that there's a midpoint snap because those snaps are preset
in my running object snaps down there on the status bar.

So, basically, that's quick and easy and runs off of the status bar at all
times. AutoCAD remembers those. So there's object snaps off and on down on the
status bar there. Click on the arrow next to it.

There's the preset running object snaps, quick and easy. So I can turn those on
and off just by clicking on them. And the tick will either be on or off for any
of those snaps. Very quick and easy to do.

Now if you want to add anything to that, like your snap overrides, you can if
you want to erase that line. So I went from that endpoint to that midpoint.
Maybe I want to draw that line somewhere else. So I've erased it.

Go back to the line command. I should really be using repeat, shouldn't I,
instead of going all the way back up to the ribbon? But we'll pick that endpoint
snap again. And we'll come into the drawing area.

Now, what I can do now is I can simply right-click. And on the Shortcut menu,
Osnap Overrides is there. And I'm going to pick Geometric Center, which is not a
preset object snap. There it is there. Click there.

That red rectangle is, by the way, an actual polyline. So that's why you're
getting the geometric center there. And you can see how quick and easy that is.

So shift and right-click brings it up at any time. Sometimes you don't need it
at any time, but you can be working in a command, drawing a line, drawing a
polyline. You can just shift and right-click and override your existing running
object snaps.

You'll notice there-- the good thing is, though, I can actually shift and
right-click and then go to the bottom to the Osnap settings on that Snap
Overrides dropdown. And I can go into the drafting settings as well. And work
with my snaps that way in a dialog box if I want to.

But you can see that there's lots of different kind of permutations and
combinations there where you can tweak your running object snaps down there on
the status bar to tie in with whatever Osnap Overrides you're using. And, again,
you're not relying on anything on the ribbon or even anything on the Shortcut
menu per se because all you're doing is right-clicking and going to Osnap
Overrides if you need a different snap that is already different to your running
object snaps on the status bar. Very, very quick and easy. And it makes those
objects snaps a snap to use. Yeah, I know I said it again, right?

Now, we're moving into my last absolute favorite. Now, I love Selection Cycling.
I've lost count of the number of times I've opened a drawing where objects are
often overlaid over each other, and they're really difficult to select. You
sometimes have to do a crossing selection or a window selection to try and
select them.

Selection Cycling actually allows you to pick the object you want. It's a
drafting setting available on the status bar. So I'm going to show you the
customization. That's what those little asterisks are for, by the way. They're
to let you know where I'm going in the video in a moment.

So that customization will appear on screen, but it's sometimes a bit difficult
to see because it's right in the bottom right corner. But it allows for easy
display and selection of overlaid objects, and it just makes your object
selection so much easier. It's unbelievably easy. So you see them there. There's
the object selection icon. And you can see the selection cycling there as well.

Again, little video to run here. And what we'll do now is we'll come down here.
See those little three lines? That your customization icon. If you click on
that, you can customize your status bar. You want to make sure that you select
Selection Cycling, not Selection Filtering, totally different thing.

So there's Selection Cycling. And it switches that little icon on on the status
bar. Come down to the three lines, click on it again, closes the customization
menu. So now you've got that Selection Cycling there, and it's on. If it's blue,
it's on. You see it's on, on or off.

So now switch it back on again. And you'll see that you've got a sort of bluey
purple rectangle there. Now, if I hover there, can you see that double little
square on the crosshair?

When I click on that polyline, watch what happens. You'll get Selection Cycling
kick in. And it's now letting me know that there's two polylines there, one on
top of the other, a bluey purple one and a red one.

So what I can do now is select the one that I want. And I don't need it. So I'm
just going to right-click and erase. And there's the red one underneath. That's
how quick and easy it is to utilize Selection Cycling. So if I now go to that
polyline, can you see it's on a different layer and so on.

Because sometimes you do get objects on top of each other in AutoCAD. It happens
all the time. And Selection Cycling is a good way of sorting out that detritus
and allowing you to erase the one that you don't want, as in the case of the
rectangle there in the drawing area.

So we've covered our agenda so far. We've done objective 1. We've done the new
stuff. Objective two, we've done the daily stuff. We've done the efficiency and
productivity stuff. So what we're going to do now is move on to the Q&A and also
keeping in touch.

Now, obviously, this is a recording. So you won't be able to obviously do the
Q&A side of things with me. But if you're attending AU, as in AU this year in
San Diego, you will be able to obviously meet me, talk about Q&A, et cetera.

But the whole idea is is that this particular presentation will be available on
the Autodesk University page for you to refer back to at a later date. So let's
just jump through the slides. You can see that. We've got the Q&A now.

Now, just before we jump into that Q&A, I want to give you a couple of quotes.
I'm a big fan of quotes when it comes to learning. Now, some of you may a chap
called Frank Lloyd Wright. He's an incredibly famous architect. And some of his
buildings are simplicity personified, I think is the best way to describe it.

But what you need to think about here with all of these AutoCAD tools is you can
use an eraser on the drafting table, replace that with AutoCAD. Obviously, we've
moved along. But you've got the comparison of that compared to a sledge hammer
on the construction site.

Utilize those AutoCAD tools not only to make yourself smarter and quicker, but
also to be more accurate and more precise. Otherwise, somebody might be using
that sledge hammer to destroy something on site that may be incorrect, may have
been drafted wrongly. Just remember that. It's a very good quote.

And Steve Wozniak, who originally set up Apple with Steve Jobs many years ago,
wouldn't it be nice to design a real briefcase? You open it up, and it's your
computer. But it also stores your books. Does that sound familiar now?

There are so many different ways to access your information, access your
designs, access your drawings. So utilize that cloud, utilize all of those
online learning tools such as, say, my AutoCAD tips and tricks to go and work
through all of that learning information out there to become better at what you
do, to become empowered with AutoCAD.

I'm a member of the Autodesk Community. We join our fellow designers and makers
to connect, share knowledge, and be inspired at all times. You might want to
consider a visit to the Community Zone. Relax, connect with your peers in the
Design & Make industries.

I'm also an Expert Elite Member, recognizes customers around the world who
contribute to the Autodesk Community. And we share our product knowledge, best
practices, and expertise. That's exactly what AU is all about. I love being an
Expert Elite at AU and presenting, and speaking, and passing on that expertise
so that you can be better.

I'd also like to just bring about my new book, due in January 2025. There will
be a free e-book version for five AU attendees. You can also have a preview
chapter available for AU for you as well. And there's some AU discount pricing
for pre-orders. There's the QR codes if you are interested.

I'm hoping that the key takeaways from this class are that you realize that
there's everything there that is snackable learning, short and sweet little tips
and tricks that you can utilize to work smarter, not harder. Make sure you chase
that fun too. Enjoy yourself as you learn. Have fun doing it. Maybe organize
some lunch and learn sessions at work or have that Monday morning meeting where
you sit with your CAD team and discuss things that might actually be enjoyable.

And don't forget the art of googling. Always google it and stay inquisitive. But
most importantly, always be learning. There's tools out there such as LinkedIn
Learning and Global eTraining where you can go and find so much information
about AutoCAD and all the other Autodesk applications.

LinkedIn Learning. You can develop those skills. And as you can see there with
the Global eTraining Everything library, there are so many tools out there in
the AEC ecosystem. Thank you. And obviously, if there's any Q&A, please jump in
now. And if you want to keep in touch, there's my information.

A quick key AU takeaway, though, if you are at AU this year, make sure that you
share your LinkedIn QR code on the LinkedIn app on your phone. There's my QR
code there for my LinkedIn profile. And it's quick and easy. You can share those
QR codes. It's a bit quicker than a business card, touch more sustainable as
well.

Don't forget you've got Not Just Cad, the podcast, available on Spotify and
Apple. And I'd like to say thank you ever so much for taking my presentation on
board. I hope you've learned lots of little tips and tricks that will allow you
to become that CADjedi in the AutoCAD office.





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IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that ADC
Media has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to ADC Media to
better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more
relevant ads. ADC Media Privacy Policy
AgrantSEM
We use AgrantSEM to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AgrantSEM.
Ads are based on both AgrantSEM data and behavioral data that we collect while
you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited,
trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your
IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that
AgrantSEM has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AgrantSEM
to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with
more relevant ads. AgrantSEM Privacy Policy
Bidtellect
We use Bidtellect to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by
Bidtellect. Ads are based on both Bidtellect data and behavioral data that we
collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve
visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made,
and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data
that Bidtellect has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to
Bidtellect to better customize your digital advertising experience and present
you with more relevant ads. Bidtellect Privacy Policy
Bing
We use Bing to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bing. Ads are
based on both Bing data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our
sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve
initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or
device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bing has collected
from you. We use the data that we provide to Bing to better customize your
digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bing
Privacy Policy
G2Crowd
We use G2Crowd to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by G2Crowd. Ads
are based on both G2Crowd data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re
on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials
you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP
address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that G2Crowd
has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to G2Crowd to better
customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant
ads. G2Crowd Privacy Policy
NMPI Display
We use NMPI Display to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by NMPI
Display. Ads are based on both NMPI Display data and behavioral data that we
collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve
visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made,
and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data
that NMPI Display has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to
NMPI Display to better customize your digital advertising experience and present
you with more relevant ads. NMPI Display Privacy Policy
VK
We use VK to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by VK. Ads are based
on both VK data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites.
The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated,
videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID.
This information may be combined with data that VK has collected from you. We
use the data that we provide to VK to better customize your digital advertising
experience and present you with more relevant ads. VK Privacy Policy
Adobe Target
We use Adobe Target to test new features on our sites and customize your
experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while
you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve
initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or
device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version
of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on
your visitor attributes. Adobe Target Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Advertising)
We use Google Analytics (Advertising) to deploy digital advertising on sites
supported by Google Analytics (Advertising). Ads are based on both Google
Analytics (Advertising) data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on
our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve
initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or
device ID. This information may be combined with data that Google Analytics
(Advertising) has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Google
Analytics (Advertising) to better customize your digital advertising experience
and present you with more relevant ads. Google Analytics (Advertising) Privacy
Policy
Trendkite
We use Trendkite to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Trendkite.
Ads are based on both Trendkite data and behavioral data that we collect while
you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited,
trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your
IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that
Trendkite has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Trendkite
to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with
more relevant ads. Trendkite Privacy Policy
Hotjar
We use Hotjar to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Hotjar. Ads
are based on both Hotjar data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re
on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials
you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP
address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Hotjar has
collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Hotjar to better
customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant
ads. Hotjar Privacy Policy
6 Sense
We use 6 Sense to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by 6 Sense. Ads
are based on both 6 Sense data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re
on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials
you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP
address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that 6 Sense
has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to 6 Sense to better
customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant
ads. 6 Sense Privacy Policy
Terminus
We use Terminus to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Terminus.
Ads are based on both Terminus data and behavioral data that we collect while
you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited,
trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your
IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that
Terminus has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Terminus to
better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more
relevant ads. Terminus Privacy Policy
StackAdapt
We use StackAdapt to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by
StackAdapt. Ads are based on both StackAdapt data and behavioral data that we
collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve
visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made,
and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data
that StackAdapt has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to
StackAdapt to better customize your digital advertising experience and present
you with more relevant ads. StackAdapt Privacy Policy
The Trade Desk
We use The Trade Desk to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by The
Trade Desk. Ads are based on both The Trade Desk data and behavioral data that
we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages
you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve
made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with
data that The Trade Desk has collected from you. We use the data that we provide
to The Trade Desk to better customize your digital advertising experience and
present you with more relevant ads. The Trade Desk Privacy Policy
RollWorks
We use RollWorks to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by RollWorks.
Ads are based on both RollWorks data and behavioral data that we collect while
you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited,
trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your
IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that
RollWorks has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to RollWorks
to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with
more relevant ads. RollWorks Privacy Policy
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