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AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings

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Overview

Learn to manage layers, selections, and geometry in your AutoCAD drawings.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Converting units from Imperial to Metric
1. Making Selections
  • Selecting objects using windows
  • Adding to and removing from selections
  • Using keyboard shortcuts
2. Refining Geometry
  • Creating fillets
  • Creating chamfers
  • Creating a rotational array
  • Creating a rectangular array
  • Stretching elements
  • Creating mirrored copies
  • Scaling elements
  • Leveraging grips
  • Exploding elements
  • Joining elements together
  • Editing hatch patterns
3. Organizing Drawings
  • Understanding layers
  • Creating and adjusting layers
  • Using layers to organize a drawing
  • Changing layer states using the Layer control
  • Understanding the ByLayer property
  • Using existing geometry to set the current layer
4. Accessing Specialized Tools
  • Taking measurements
  • Selecting objects that are similar
  • Creating new objects by example
  • Automating calculations using the QuickCalc calculator
5. Checking Your Skills
  • Intro: Constructing a multiview part
  • Demo: Constructing a multiview part
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Jeff Bartels

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