Overview
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Learn the basics of AutoCAD for Mac. Get acquainted with the interface, file management, and how to best leverage the application's toolset.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- How to use the exercise files
- AutoCAD versions
- Components of the interface
- Accessing the palettes
- Command line overview
- Drawing tabs
- Layout tabs
- Toolbar
- User preferences
- Use the Help menu
- Right-click menu
- File types basics
- Opening files
- Saving files
- Configuring a new drawing
- Templates
- Drawing units
- Zoom commands
- Panning
- Regenerating and redrawing
- Views
- Geometry of your geometry
- Absolute-coordinate entry
- Relative-coordinate entry
- Polar-coordinate entry
- Lines
- Circles and arcs
- Polylines
- Polygons and rectangles
- Ellipses
- Splines
- Points
- Grid and Snap
- Ortho and Polar
- Object snap
- Object-snap tracking
- Measuring tools
- Divide
- Selection methods
- Quick Select
- Move
- Copy
- Rotate
- Scale
- Stretch
- Trim and Extend
- Offset
- Mirror
- Array
- Polyline editing
- Join and Break
- Fillet and Chamfer
- Object properties
- Layer basics
- Creating layers
- Layer tools
- Advanced layer tools
- Layer states
- Hatch basics
- Using gradients
- Groups
- Blocks
- Creating blocks
- Updating blocks
- Dynamic blocks
- Dynamic blocks actions and parameters
- Dynamic blocks visibility parameter
- Dynamic blocks practice
- External references
- Binding external references
- Underlaying images
- Underlaying PDFs
- Understanding paperspace and modelspace
- Creating layouts
- Viewport basics
- Locking viewports
- Viewport layers
- Text styles
- Single-line text
- Multiline text
- Dimension styles
- Linear dimensions
- Aligned dimensions
- Special dimensions
- Dimension tool
- Leaders
- Dimension overrides
- Annotation scaling
- Page setups
- Plot styles
- Plot dialog
- Batch publishing
- Pack and Go
- Views in 3D
- 3D basic geometry
- Modifying 3D objects
- Next steps
