Learn how to become a competent AutoCAD user for design projects in architecture, engineering, construction management, manufacturing, and product design.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- The essentials of AutoCAD
- The advantages of using AutoCAD
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Further AutoCAD courses in the library
- The AutoCAD 2024 user interface
- The application menu
- The info bar
- The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
- The ribbon and panels
- Using workspaces in AutoCAD
- Working with palettes and dialog boxes
- The command line
- Using Dynamic Input (DYNMODE)
- The status bar
- Using your Autodesk account
- New tab tools in AutoCAD 2024
- Setting drawing units
- Setting Options
- Drawings using Metric units
- Drawings using Imperial units
- Working with templates: DWT
- Working with Zoom and Pan
- Model space and paper space
- Saving and restoring views
- The mouse and mouse settings
- Working with the ViewCube and the Navigation Bar
- Using Grid and Snap
- Working with coordinates
- Using Dynamic Input (DYNMODE)
- Direct Distance Entry (DDE)
- OSNAP and AUTOSNAP
- POLAR and ORTHO
- Lines, arcs, and circles
- Polylines and splines
- Using real-time zoom and real-time pan
- Rectangles and polygons
- Points and donuts
- Ellipses
- Isometric drafting (ISODRAFT)
- Working with the file tabs
- The shortcut menu
- Selecting objects
- Using Move and Copy
- Using Rotate and Scale
- Using Mirror and Offset
- Using Break and Join
- Using grips and grip editing
- Using boundaries
- Using Fillet and Chamfer
- Using Divide and Measure
- Editing polylines and splines
- Using Trim and Extend
- Creating and using arrays
- Using Stretch and Lengthen
- Using the Hatch command
- Using the Gradient command
- Using Draw Order to display hatches and gradients
- Editing hatches and gradients
- Creating and using text styles
- Single-line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT)
- Creating and using dimension styles
- Adding dimensions to your drawings
- Using Quick Leader (QLEADER) in your drawings
- Creating and using table styles
- Adding a table to your drawing
- Creating and using multileader styles
- Working with multileaders
- Aligning text
- Editing dimensions and dimension overrides
- Breaking and spacing dimensions
- Using Continue and Baseline
- Automatic dimensioning
- Working with object properties
- Changing the line type scale
- Using Hide and Isolate
- New layers and the layer drop-down menu
- Using the layer tools
- Working with layer states
- Using groups
- Creating and inserting a block
- Redefining block definitions in a drawing
- Using the EXPLODE command
- Creating a simple dynamic block
- Using the WBLOCK command
- Creating a simple block with attributes
- Enhanced Attribute Editor
- Working with table styles
- Designing a table
- Adding fields to a table
- Attaching XREFs
- Altering and clipping XREFs
- Editing XREFs
- Editing XREFs in place
- Locking viewports
- Freezing viewport layers
- Using annotative text styles
- Using annotative dimensions
- Using revision clouds
- Creating a simple title block
- Defining your page setup
- Adding new scaled viewports
- Using annotative scaling
- Printing and plotting
- Plotting from the Model and Layout tabs
- Packaging with eTransmit
- Batch Plotting (PUBLISH)
- Comparing drawings with DWG Compare
- Using the Count functionality to check the number of objects in a drawing
- Working with cloud-based storage
- Saving and opening to and from the AutoCAD web and mobile folders
- Working with the AutoCAD web app
- Using Traces to collaborate (AutoCAD web)
- Using the Traces palette to collaborate (AutoCAD desktop)
- Sharing drawings with others from AutoCAD
- You know AutoCAD: Now what?
Taught by
Shaun Bryant