Overview
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Learn how to master AutoCAD 2016 and draw the kind of precise, measured 2D drawings that form the basis of design communication the world over.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Exploring the user interface
- Using the ribbon
- Changing workspaces
- Customizing the user interface
- Editing command aliases
- Accessing help
- Opening saving and closing files
- Selecting drawing units
- Converting drawings to new units
- Editing program and drawing options
- Using and creating templates
- Using commands and panning a drawing
- Using the Zoom command to navigate
- Understanding model and paper spaces
- Saving and restoring views
- Lines
- Circles
- Arcs
- Ellipses
- Splines
- Polylines
- Rectangles and polygons
- Points and donuts
- Selecting objects
- Moving and copying
- Rotating and scaling
- Arraying objects
- Offsetting and mirroring
- Stretching and lengthening
- Trimming and extending
- Breaking and joining
- Editing with grips
- Creating boundaries and cleaning up
- Performing Boolean operations on regions
- Using the fillet chamfer and blend commands
- Dividing and measuring
- Editing polylines and splines
- Using Grid and Snap
- Making isometric drawings
- Understanding coordinate systems
- Using polar tracking
- Enabling the heads-up display
- Working with object snaps
- Finding the Geometric center
- Using the From command
- Employing object-snap tracking
- Creating coordinate systems of your own
- Engineering project: Part drawing
- Architectural project: Attaching a sketch
- Architectural project: Drawing walls
- Architectural project: Cutting openings
- Architectural project: Drawing doors
- Architectural project: Adding details
- Using the Hatch command
- Creating hatch patterns by selecting objects
- Creating gradients
- Editing hatch boundaries
- Creating text styles
- Writing single-line text
- Creating a text frame
- Writing multiline text
- Aligning text objects
- Measuring distances and areas
- Making dimension objects
- Editing existing dimensions
- Editing a dimension style
- Creating dimension substyles
- Making dimension overrides
- Creating multileaders
- Hiding and isolating objects
- Editing object properties
- Changing linetype scale
- Creating layers
- Using the Layer dropdown menu
- Accessing specialized layer tools
- Saving and restoring layer states
- Altering object display order
- Working with groups
- Creating and inserting blocks
- Using ByLayer and ByBlock object properties
- Redefining blocks
- Exploding objects with Explode and Xplode
- Designing a dynamic block
- Accessing external block content
- Redefining local blocks with global blocks
- Designing a symbol with text placeholders
- Designing attribute definitions
- Defining a block with attributes
- Creating a table
- Styling a table's title text
- Adding fields to tables
- Exporting objects to a file
- Attaching and overlaying xrefs
- Altering xrefs
- Clipping xrefs
- Editing xrefs in place
- Removing xrefs
- Creating a layout
- Configuring a viewport
- Locking viewports
- Freezing viewport layers
- Drawing a title block
- Creating annotative text styles
- Creating annotative dimension styles and objects
- Drawing and editing revision clouds
- Plotting from a layout and from model space
- Packaging your data with eTransmit
- Outputting DWFx files for sharing online
- Publishing multiple sheets
- Next steps
