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AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training

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Overview

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Learn how to master AutoCAD 2016 and draw the kind of precise, measured 2D drawings that form the basis of design communication the world over.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Exploring the User Interface
  • Exploring the user interface
  • Using the ribbon
  • Changing workspaces
  • Customizing the user interface
  • Editing command aliases
  • Accessing help
2. Managing Files and Options
  • Opening saving and closing files
  • Selecting drawing units
  • Converting drawings to new units
  • Editing program and drawing options
  • Using and creating templates
3. Navigating Drawings
  • Using commands and panning a drawing
  • Using the Zoom command to navigate
  • Understanding model and paper spaces
  • Saving and restoring views
4. Drawing Objects
  • Lines
  • Circles
  • Arcs
  • Ellipses
  • Splines
  • Polylines
  • Rectangles and polygons
  • Points and donuts
5. Modifying Objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Moving and copying
  • Rotating and scaling
  • Arraying objects
  • Offsetting and mirroring
  • Stretching and lengthening
  • Trimming and extending
  • Breaking and joining
  • Editing with grips
  • Creating boundaries and cleaning up
  • Performing Boolean operations on regions
  • Using the fillet chamfer and blend commands
  • Dividing and measuring
  • Editing polylines and splines
6. Drawing Accurately
  • Using Grid and Snap
  • Making isometric drawings
  • Understanding coordinate systems
  • Using polar tracking
  • Enabling the heads-up display
  • Working with object snaps
  • Finding the Geometric center
  • Using the From command
  • Employing object-snap tracking
  • Creating coordinate systems of your own
7. Practice Drawing Projects
  • Engineering project: Part drawing
  • Architectural project: Attaching a sketch
  • Architectural project: Drawing walls
  • Architectural project: Cutting openings
  • Architectural project: Drawing doors
  • Architectural project: Adding details
8. Hatching and Creating Gradients
  • Using the Hatch command
  • Creating hatch patterns by selecting objects
  • Creating gradients
  • Editing hatch boundaries
9. Writing
  • Creating text styles
  • Writing single-line text
  • Creating a text frame
  • Writing multiline text
  • Aligning text objects
10. Dimensioning
  • Measuring distances and areas
  • Making dimension objects
  • Editing existing dimensions
  • Editing a dimension style
  • Creating dimension substyles
  • Making dimension overrides
  • Creating multileaders
11. Managing Object and Layer Properties
  • Hiding and isolating objects
  • Editing object properties
  • Changing linetype scale
  • Creating layers
  • Using the Layer dropdown menu
  • Accessing specialized layer tools
  • Saving and restoring layer states
  • Altering object display order
12. Reusing Content
  • Working with groups
  • Creating and inserting blocks
  • Using ByLayer and ByBlock object properties
  • Redefining blocks
  • Exploding objects with Explode and Xplode
  • Designing a dynamic block
  • Accessing external block content
  • Redefining local blocks with global blocks
13. Defining Attributes and Configuring Tables
  • Designing a symbol with text placeholders
  • Designing attribute definitions
  • Defining a block with attributes
  • Creating a table
  • Styling a table's title text
  • Adding fields to tables
14. Making External References
  • Exporting objects to a file
  • Attaching and overlaying xrefs
  • Altering xrefs
  • Clipping xrefs
  • Editing xrefs in place
  • Removing xrefs
15. Working with Layouts and Annotation
  • Creating a layout
  • Configuring a viewport
  • Locking viewports
  • Freezing viewport layers
  • Drawing a title block
  • Creating annotative text styles
  • Creating annotative dimension styles and objects
  • Drawing and editing revision clouds
16. Creating Output
  • Plotting from a layout and from model space
  • Packaging your data with eTransmit
  • Outputting DWFx files for sharing online
  • Publishing multiple sheets
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Onstott

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