Overview
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Get started with AutoCAD LT. Learn how to create your own CAD designs and communicate design intent on the world's most well-known 2D CAD platform.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The new AutoCAD LT 2019 interface
- The application menu
- The ribbon and panels
- Dialog boxes and palettes
- The status bar
- Logging into A360 Drive and saving to web and mobile (AutoCAD LT 2019 only)
- OSNAP and OTRACK
- POLAR and ORTHO
- Lines, arcs, and circles
- Polylines, polygons, and splines
- Using Zoom and Pan
- Text styles
- Single line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT)
- Dimension styles
- Dimensioning simple designs
- Adding a simple table
- Creating a simple titleblock
- Defining your page setup
- Adding new layouts and scaled viewports
- Using annotative scaling
- Printing and plotting
- Understanding full AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
- Opening up an AutoCAD drawing (DWG) file
- Starting a new drawing with an AutoCAD template file (DWT)
- Setting up and using the appropriate AutoCAD template file
- Saving drawings in various file formats
- Specifying distance and angle with Dynamic Input
- Line command options on the shortcut menu
- Erasing objects
- Drawing rectangles
- Drawing polygons
- Undo and redo actions
- Drawing with Snap and Grid
- Using workspaces
- Adding settings and information to the status bar
- Editing tools in AutoCAD LT
- Selecting objects
- Using and editing with grips
- Advanced editing tools in AutoCAD LT
- What are layers?
- Layers in new drawings
- Working with different types of layers
- Setting the current layer
- Layer tools
- Quick properties
- The Properties palette
- Matching properties
- Quick Select
- What are blocks?
- Working with blocks
- Inserting blocks
- Inserting blocks using the tool palettes
- Inserting blocks using DesignCenter
- The Page Setup Manager in detail
- Printing from model and layout tabs
- Creating layouts
- Creating multiple layout viewports
- Using text styles
- Multiline text and single line text
- Editing text
- Spell checking
- Using multileaders
- Creating tables
- The hatch creation tab
- Working with hatch patterns and hatch scales
- Editing hatch patterns
- Grip editing hatch boundaries
- Adding dimensions
- Editing dimensions using grips
- Editing the dimension text
- Dimension editing tools
- Previewing the plot
- Print and plot settings
- Batch plotting using the PUBLISH command
- Next steps
