Overview
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Learn to manage layers, selections, and geometry in your AutoCAD drawings.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Converting units from Imperial to Metric
- Selecting objects using windows
- Adding to and removing from selections
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- Creating fillets
- Creating chamfers
- Creating a rotational array
- Creating a rectangular array
- Stretching elements
- Creating mirrored copies
- Scaling elements
- Leveraging grips
- Exploding elements
- Joining elements together
- Editing hatch patterns
- Understanding layers
- Creating and adjusting layers
- Using layers to organize a drawing
- Changing layer states using the Layer control
- Understanding the ByLayer property
- Using existing geometry to set the current layer
- Taking measurements
- Selecting objects that are similar
- Creating new objects by example
- Automating calculations using the QuickCalc calculator
- Intro: Constructing a multiview part
- Demo: Constructing a multiview part
- Goodbye
