Here's a cool autocad tip that you might find useful. The command - "time". I bet most of you don't know this command. It actually tells you exactly how long in days, minutes, seconds, upto the milliseconds you have been working with a particular autocad file. This is one of the many Autocad tips you might want to remember as it may come handy someday.Apart from knowing the total editing time. This autocad tip also tells the current time, when the file was created and when it was last updated. And since you could actually reset the timer to zero, you can check the elapsed time since it was reset. It also tells you exactly how much longer before the next automatic save takes place.
Maybe you're asking what this autocad tip is good for. I'll give you three situations that you may find this command useful.
First, if you want to check how fast you are at using autocad, well you get the idea. You may also want to see how fast your coworker does the job in autocad. You'll know if his techniques are faster than yours. Maybe you can exchange some autocad tips you know with him. hehe.
Second, if you are working as a freelance autocad encoder or an autocad outsourcing company, normally you would be charging per hour. And if that's the case, this autocad tip is gonna make life easier for you. The time command will tell you exactly how long the file has been worked upon.
Thirdly, if you have hired someone to do the autocad encoding for you, well, using this autocad tip, you could check more or less if he is charging you correctly for the time he has spent doing the job.
Well that's it, just wanted to share with you this nice autocad tip I read on a book somewhere. I'm sure it'll be of some use to you in the future.
Check back for more autocad tips in the future.
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