HowToAutoCAD

HowToAutoCAD is a static blog of around 127 AutoCAD tutorials — how individual commands and system variables behave, drawing practices that save time later, and a run of posts on automating AutoCAD with VBA and VB.NET. Each post is a Markdown file with frontmatter, built at deploy time into a static page and published at a bare URL like howtoautocad.com/the-line-command. There is no database, no login and no application behind it: it is a content and SEO asset, and the honest description of the code is a lightly modified Vercel blog-starter.

I wrote it because I had watched people spend days on AutoCAD work that a little knowledge of the fundamentals would have turned into hours. The archive dates back to 2010 on an older CMS; this repo is the 2022 rebuild that migrated the posts into Markdown. It now also acts as a front door to my YouTube channel, TheRandomCoder.

The migration left its marks. Post bodies still carry pipe-delimited markers inherited from the old platform, one for a YouTube embed and one for a subscribe form, expanded by string replacement after the Markdown is rendered. The ® on AutoCAD and Civil 3D is inserted automatically rather than typed. No new posts since 2023.