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AutoCAD: Effective Annotating

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Overview

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Learn how to use AutoCAD, the flagship CAD platform from Autodesk, to effectively annotate your drawings.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Introduction to Annotation in AutoCAD
  • What is annotation in AutoCAD?
  • Why use annotation?
  • How do you annotate effectively (layers)?
2. Different Types of Annotation
  • Text
  • Dimensions
  • Centerlines
  • Leaders
  • Tables
  • Markup
3. Using Text Effectively in Your Drawings
  • Setting up a text layer
  • Text
  • Multiline text
  • Text styles
  • Spelling
  • Text align
  • Justify
4. Dimensioning Accurately in Your Drawings
  • Setting up a dimensioning layer
  • Setting up a dimension style
  • DIM command
  • DIM layer override
  • Dimension types
  • QDIM command
  • Continue and baseline
  • DIMSPACE and DIMBREAK
5. Using Centerlines
  • Setting up a centerline layer
  • Center Mark
  • Centerline
6. Leaders and Multileaders
  • Setting up a leader layer
  • QLEADER command
  • Setting up a multileader style
  • Placing a multileader
  • Adding and removing a multileader
  • Aligning multileaders
  • Collecting multileaders
7. Setting Up an AutoCAD Table
  • Setting up a table layer
  • Setting up the table style
  • Adding a table to the drawing
  • Inserting data in to the AutoCAD table
  • Using text fields in the AutoCAD table
  • Working with cells in the AutoCAD table
8. Marking Up an AutoCAD Drawing
  • Setting up a markup layer
  • Using a wipeout effectively
  • Using different types of revision cloud
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Shaun Bryant

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