arctan

I've used AutoCAD for ten years, and I fucking hate it. When it's good, it's just marginally not too shitty. When it's bad, it's terrible. While I have become fairly experienced with using it, the quirks, inconsistencies and limitations often make it exasperating to deal with, and occasionally make it nightmarish. This puts me in the awkward position of doing something I've come more often recently to downright hate.

I want your best AutoCAD time saving and optimization tricks. Maybe a knowledge share like this will also be useful for other drafters and engineers who scroll HN.

While I'm not a programmer, I'd also like to hear thoughts from programmers who are familiar with AutoCAD. If an engineering entrepreneur with an unlimited budget, determined to start from scratch while keeping goodness about the things that are good, dropped the code on your desk and said 'okay what do we do with this shit?', what would your answer be?

Oh and, BTW, please don't hold back if you happen to have dank AutoCAD memes and/or a similar amount of ire (all of it) as I do for Autodesk and their associated hellspawn.

Thanks!