AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks: Free Online Course from LinkedIn Learning

Work smarter, not harder, with AutoCAD. Discover weekly tips, techniques, and workarounds to make designers more effective and more productive.

Syllabus

Working with the new Count features (AutoCAD 2023)
- 301 CONTENT REUSE
Introduction
- Welcome
May 2016
- Using ARRAY and ARRAYCLASSIC
- Using FIELDS in MTEXT
- Freezing layers in the current viewport
- Using WBLOCK to edit and replace blocks
- Using DesignCenter with AutoCAD blocks
June 2016
- Using measure to obtain accurate drawing information
- Using layer properties for layer management
- Using the new centerline commands
- Using DIMREASSOCIATE to maintain dimension accuracy
July 2016
- Using the QAT to set up a customized workspace
- Using markup tools to create a revision schedule
- Utilizing named views to manage the Model tab
August 2016
- Using the AutoCAD calculator to your advantage
- Using Quick Select to speed up the selection process
- Using layer settings for effective layer control
- Setting AutoCAD point styles
September 2016
- Setting multiple point objects
- Using the MEASURE command
- Using the DIVIDE command
- Creating different revision cloud types
October 2016
- Creating a region from 2D objects
- Using EXTRUDE to create 3D solids
- Using visual styles to develop 3D views
- Using Match Properties effectively
November 2016
- Using transparency in AutoCAD drawings
- Using Hide and Isolate to draw effectively
- Using the Group Manager to set up groups in AutoCAD
- Using LTGAPSELECTION in AutoCAD
December 2016
- Using SELECTIONOFFSCREEN in AutoCAD
- Using PDFSHXTEXT in AutoCAD
- Using the DIMBREAK command
January 2017
- Using the DIMSPACE command
- Creating a dimension jog line
- Using DesignCenter
- Working with insertion scales
February 2017
- Creating a simple block palette
- Creating named views
- Working with batch plotting
- Working with BYLAYER
March 2017
- Rotating with Copy and Reference
- Working with layer settings
- Using the OFFSET command
- Setting up a metric text style
April 2017
- Setting up a metric dimension style
- Setting up a metric multileader style
- Using the STARTUP variable
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
May 2017
- Adding your own AutoCAD workspace
- Working with the new AutoCAD 2018.1 XREF commands
- Working with the new AutoCAD 2018.1 view and viewport commands
- Demonstrating the hi-res monitor support in AutoCAD 2018.1
June 2017
- Working with the 3D graphics support on the AutoCAD 2018.1 update
- Working with the PDFSHXTEXT command
- Converting text to MTEXT with the TXT2MTXT command
- Enclosing text with an object such as a circle, slot, or rectangle
July 2017
- Developing and extruding a simple region in a 3D solid
- Using the layer controls in the Layers panel in the ribbon
- Adding blocks to a tool palette for design reuse
August 2017
- Changing the INSUNITS variable when working with blocks
- Using the Sheet Set Manager to develop a sheet set
- Working with the interface panel and display options
- Using AutoCAD tools to fix broken reference paths
September 2017
- Finding and replacing reference files
- Working with AutoCAD centerlines and adjusting their settings
- Working with the Named Views panel
- Using the PUBLISH command
October 2017
- Using the ETRANSMIT command
- Working with the ARRAYPATH command
- Working with the FIELD command to display object data
- Creating tool palettes from drawings in AutoCAD DesignCenter
November 2017
- Using the Markup Set Manager in AutoCAD with Autodesk Design Review
- Creating blocks with attributes for design content
- Working with the Enhanced Attribute Editor to enhance block attributes
- Using Quick Select to find and select objects quickly
December 2017
- Using the SPELL command to check and review AutoCAD designs
- Interface: Editing Polar Arrays
- Interface: Editing rectangular arrays
January 2018
- Content: Using DWG Compare
- Content: Working with DWG Compare results
- Content: Creating DWG Compare tables
- Management: Working with AutoCAD options
February 2018
- Content: Calculating areas
- Content: Layer and panel tools
- Content: Invisible block attributes
- Content: Editing block attributes
March 2018
- Plotting: Simple batch plotting
- Interface: Automatic dimensioning
- Interface: Using edge extensions
- Interface: Editing path arrays
April 2018
- Using the DWG Compare command
- Working with your Autodesk Account
- Saving your files to AutoCAD web and AutoCAD mobile
- Setting up model space viewports with a 3D model
May 2018
- Using named views to navigate your AutoCAD drawings
- Using a DWS file to check standards in your AutoCAD drawings
- Working with the Page Setup Manager in AutoCAD
- Exporting your DWG files to DWF and PDF file formats
June 2018
- Using the DIMREASSOCIATE command
- Working with the Layer States Manager
- Setting up an effective METRIC dimension style
- Setting up an effective IMPERIAL dimension style
July 2018
- Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings
- Using shared views in AutoCAD
- Using the Autodesk Viewer
August 2018
- Using Arc Aligned
- Converting text to MTEXT
- Using the Modify Text drop-down menu tools
- Using the Move/Copy/Rotate command in Express Tools
September 2018
- Using Auto Number with AutoCAD text objects
- Enclosing text inside objects with the Enclose in Object command
- Aligning your layout viewports with the Align Space command
- Matching up layout viewports with the Synchronize Viewports command
October 2018
- Using the Merge Layout command to merge layout viewports
- Using the Save to Web & Mobile command
- Taking a DWG file in to AutoCAD web app
- A brief introduction to using DWG files in AutoCAD web app
November 2018
- Using the drawing utilities provided by AutoCAD in a DWG file
- Use layer states to highlight objects in drawings
- Use the LAYISO and LAYUNISO commands in your drawings
- Use auto constrain and add and remove other constraints
December 2018
- Work with constraints in your drawings
- Work with dimensional constraints in your drawings
- Convert dimensions to dimensional constraints in your drawings
January 2019
- Add parameters and expressions to dimensional constraints
- Show and hide constraints in your AutoCAD drawings
- Develop PDF page setups using the Page Setup Manager
- Use the new blocks palette in AutoCAD 2020
February 2019
- Work with the WBLOCK command in AutoCAD 2020
- Use DWG Compare in AutoCAD 2020
- Use the QDIM command for quicker dimensioning
- Fast data response with the new Quick Measure tool in AutoCAD 2020
March 2019
- Work with geometric constraints in an AutoCAD drawing
- Work with dimensional constraints in an AutoCAD drawing
- Use the Parameters Manager to manage constraints in a drawing
- Use the calculator provided in AutoCAD
April 2019
- Use Quick Select for easy object selection in drawings
- Generate 2D views from a 3D object in the layout tab
- Scale the 2D views generated in the layout tab
- Use the enhanced PURGE command in AutoCAD 2020
May 2019
- Design reuse: Working with insertion options in the BLOCK command
- Drafting: The advantages of using polylines
- Drafting: Enjoying your donuts
- Drafting: Working with regions
June 2019
- Drafting: Aligning objects in 2D
- Layout: Adding named views to a layout
- Annotation: Generating an annotative dimension style
- Web: Saving a drawing to use in the AutoCAD web app
July 2019
- Design Reuse: Using PDFs in your drawings
- Layout: Freezing layers in the current viewport
- Interface: Working with the Interface panel
August 2019
- Annotation: Spell-checking your drawings
- Annotation: Reassociating your dimensions
- Parametric: Using the Parameters Manager
- Human interface: Using MBUTTONPAN, ZOOMWHEEL, and ZOOMFACTOR
September 2019
- Human interface: Customizing the right-hand mouse button
- Drafting: Running object snaps (OSNAPs)
- Interface: Using the QUICKCALC command in AutoCAD
- Drafting: Working with the snap overrides in AutoCAD
October 2019
- Drafting: Using the REGION command to your advantage
- Interface: Using the Visual Effect Settings dialog in AutoCAD
- Selection: Using selection settings in AutoCAD
- Selection: Working with GRIPS and grip editing in AutoCAD
November 2019
- Drafting: Working with OFFSET and its command options
- Layers: Using the LAYTRANS command in AutoCAD
- Layers: Using the LAYWALK command in AutoCAD
- Express Tools: Using The SUPERHATCH command from the Express Tools tab
December 2019
- Interface: Using the scale list In viewports and annotation
- Blocks: Using DesignCenter and palettes for blocks in AutoCAD
- Drafting techniques: Working with orthographic projection in AutoCAD
January 2020
- Drafting techniques: Using first angle projection in AutoCAD
- Layout: Using third angle projection in AutoCAD
- Layout: Working with the Create View tools in the Layout tab
- Layout: Working with the Modify View tools in the Layout tab
February 2020
- Layout: Updating views created in the layout with the Update panel tools
- Layout: Working with the Styles and Standards panel in the layout
- Layout: Working with different types of viewports in your layouts
- Layout: Adding named views to your layouts in your drawings
March 2020
- Blocks palette: Working with blocks in a current drawing
- Blocks palette: Working with blocks from recent drawings
- Blocks palette: Working with blocks from other drawings
- Blocks: Using the Block Attribute Manager (BATTMAN); no cape needed!
April 2020
- Annotation: Working with fields to add useful data to AutoCAD tables
- Annotation: Using the DIMENSION command for quick annotation
- Modify: Streamlined Trim and Extend (AutoCAD 2021)
- Annotation: REVCLOUD enhancements (AutoCAD 2021)
May 2020
- Modify: Break objects at a single point (AutoCAD 2021)
- Measure geometry: Working with the new Quick Measure option (only AutoCAD 2021)
- Management: Managing DWG file history using DWG History support (subscription only)
- System: The new RTREGENAUTO system variable (AutoCAD 2021)
June 2020
- Blocks: Syncing AutoCAD blocks in the Blocks palette (AutoCAD 2021), part 1
- Blocks: Syncing AutoCAD blocks in the Blocks Recent folder location (AutoCAD 2021), part 2
- Blocks: The new Blocks Libraries function (AutoCAD 2021)
- External references: XREF Compare function (AutoCAD 2021)
- Collaboration: DWG Compare, working with snapshots (AutoCAD 2020)
- Management: Working and saving back with older DWG file formats (AutoCAD 2020)
July 2020
- Annotation: Working with the DIMASSOC system variable allows for different types of dimension annotation
- Annotation: Working with associative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings
- Annotation: Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings
- Annotation: Working with some of the other useful tools in the Dimensions panel
- Annotation: Working with subfamilies in your dimension styles in AutoCAD
August 2020
- Layers: Using layer states to enhance your AutoCAD drawings
- Annotation: Using viewport scales to set your annotative scaling in your drawing
- Annotation: Working with annotative object scales to add annotative scales to dimension objects in your drawings
September 2020
- Annotation: Using the DIMBREAK and DIMSPACE commands in your AutoCAD drawings
- Annotation: Working with the MLEADER command to develop and use annotative multileaders in your drawings
- Properties: Using the LTSCALE value in your object properties to enhance object display in your layout tabs
- Management: Using the DWGCONVERT command to change the DWG file format of your drawings
October 2020
- Output: Using the PUBLISH command to print and plot multiple drawings and saving the settings for future output
- 210 Output: Setting up a simple titleblock with PDF page setup and viewports
- 211 Annotation: Using fields to occupy table data cells
- 212 Customization: Working with the AutoCAD cursor and UCS
- 213 Web App: Opening your web app DWG file in your AutoCAD desktop
November 2020
- 214 Catalogs: AutoCAD Electrical, using the Catalog Browser
- 215 Interface: Using sticky panels and saving workspaces
- 216 3D Design: Generating a section plane and creating section views
- 217 3D Design: Applying materials to surfaces using the Materials Browser to enhance your renders
December 2020
- 218 3D Design: Using visual styles to enhance your 3D model views
- 219 3D Design: Setting up a camera view and adding it to a layout titleblock
- 220 3D Design: Generating 3D solids using regions, Presspull, and Extrude
- 221 3D Design: Using Boolean functions In 3D AutoCAD
January 2021
- 222 Interface: Using your file tabs in AutoCAD
- 223 Project: Developing a simple gasket plate with polylines and circles in 2D
- 224 Project: Converting a 2D gasket plate to AutoCAD regions
- 225 Project: Using 3D Boolean functions to tidy up AutoCAD regions
February 2021
- 226 Project: Using EXTRUDE and PRESSPULL in 3D to convert a 2D region to a 3D solid
- 227 Project: Developing a title block with four viewports
- 228 Project: Working with 3D views and visual styles
- 229 Project: Adding annotation styles for text and dimensioning
March 2021
- 230 Project: Working with annotative dimensioning
- 231 Project: Setting up page setups for your title block
- 232 Project: Working with page setups to plot drawings
- 233 Project: Working with PUBLISH to batch plot drawings
April 2021
- 234 Project: Working with eTRANSMIT to publish project drawings
- 235 Project: Working with Design Review to check and review design intent
- 236 Markup: Working with the WIPEOUT command in your drawings
- 237 Markup: Working with the REVCLOUD command in your drawings
May 2021
- 238 History: Using DWG History to maintain a DWG audit trail
- 239 Mobile: Saving your drawings to the web and mobile apps
- 240 Express tools: Replacing blocks in your AutoCAD drawings
- 241 Interface: Working with the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) and workspaces
June 2021
- 242 Interface: Creating your own AutoCAD workspace with sticky panels

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