Overview
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Learn the basics of AutoCAD for Mac, the macOS version of the popular CAD application. Get acquainted with the interface, file management, and the drawing toolset.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Working with AutoCAD on a Mac
- How to use the exercise files
- AutoCAD versions
- Components of the interface
- Accessing the palettes
- Command-line overview
- Drawing tabs
- Layout tabs
- Tool bar
- 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
- Properties palette
- Object properties
- Layer basics
- Creating layer
- 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 paper space and model space
- Creating layouts
- Viewport basics
- Locking viewports
- Viewport layers
- Text styles
- Single-line text
- Multi-line 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
- Sheet sets overview
- Creating tags
- Plotting a project
- Views in 3D
- Visual styles
- Solid primitives
- 2D to 3D tools
- Modifying 3D objects
- Drawing recovery
- Auditing a drawing
- Purge
- Next steps
