Overview
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Learn the basics of AutoCAD for Mac 2020. Discover how to create and modify CAD drawings, add annotations, and plot, publish, and share your work.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- AutoCAD 2020 for the Mac
- What you should know
- AutoCAD versions
- The welcome screen
- 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
- 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 mode and polar tracking
- 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
- Object properties
- Layer basics
- Creating layers
- 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
- PDF underlays
- 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
- 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
