Overview
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This course offers essential training needed to work toward becoming a competent user of AutoCAD software, regardless of which AutoCAD toolkits you use.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- The essentials of AutoCAD
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The new AutoCAD 2021 interface
- Setting drawing units
- Converting drawing units
- Editing and managing options
- Working with templates: DWT
- Rectangles and polygons
- Points and donuts
- Ellipses
- Isometric views with elliptical arcs
- Selecting objects
- Using Move and Copy
- Using Rotate and Scale
- Creating and using arrays
- Using Offset and Mirror
- Using Stretch and Lengthen
- Using Trim and Extend
- Using Break and Join
- Using grips and grip editing
- Using boundaries
- Using Fillet and Chamfer
- Using Divide and Measure
- Editing polylines and splines
- Using the Hatch command
- Using the Gradient command
- Editing hatches and gradients
- Aligning text
- Framing text in a title block
- Editing dimensions and dimension overrides
- Breaking and spacing dimensions
- Continue and baseline dimensions
- Automatic dimensioning
- Using multileaders
- Using groups
- Creating and inserting a block
- Using the Explode command
- Redefining a block definition
- Using WBLOCK
- Creating a simple dynamic block
- Creating a simple block with attributes
- Enhanced Attribute Editor
- Working with table styles
- Designing a table
- Adding fields to a table
- Working with XREFs
- Attaching and overlaying XREFs
- Altering and clipping XREFs
- Editing XREFs
- Editing XREFs in place
- Next steps
