Cert Prep: AutoCAD for Drafting and Design Professional

Introduction

• Being an Autodesk AutoCAD Certified Professional
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Using the AutoCAD 2020 interface

1. Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP)

• What is Autodesk Certification?
• Certiport: The Autodesk exam provider

2. Creating Advanced Drawing Objects

• Working with polylines, arcs, polygons, and splines
• Editing polylines, arcs, polygons, and splines
• Working with regions
• Creating xlines and rays
• Working with multilines
• Creating 2D isometric drawings

3. Select and Organize Objects

• Using Quick Select
• Selecting similar objects
• Isolating and hiding objects in a drawing
• Controlling draw order of overlapping objects
• Copying properties from one object to another
• Removing objects from a selection set

4. Manage Layers

• Working with layer states
• Working with layer filters
• Applying and removing layer overrides per viewport
• Using Layer Walk to display layers
• Removing layers from a drawing
• Controlling the properties of referenced layers (XREFs)

5. Applying Advanced Object Snaps

• Utilizing object snap tracking with quadrant, apparent intersect, extension, and parallel
• Utilizing object snap tracking with geometric center and mid between two points (M2P)
• Working with Polar Tracking (POLAR) settings

6. Control the User Coordinate System (UCS)

• Understanding the UCS icon
• Moving and rotating the UCS origin
• Restoring the UCS to WCS (World) settings and previous UCS settings
• Using named UCS definitions and preset orientations

7. Advanced Editing Functions

• Rotating and scaling objects
• Working with rectangular and polar arrays
• Working with path arrays
• Using the Trim, Extend, and Lengthen commands
• Advanced use of the Offset command
• Working with grips
• Lengthening arcs
• Creating fillets between parallel objects and creating corners between non-parallel objects

8. Advanced Layouts, Printing, and Alternative Outputs

• Using the Page Setup Manager
• Defining and applying custom scales (Scale List)
• Customize the size and shape of viewport boundaries
• Assign a named view to a viewport
• Publish one or more drawings to a plotter, printer, DWF, or PDF file
• Creating a zipped transmittal package (eTransmit)
• Saving objects in a drawing to a different file format
• Controlling how objects appear during output using plot styles (CTB/STB)
• Working with color-dependent (CTB) and named (STB) plot style tables

9. Annotation Techniques

• Create and modify revision clouds and wipeouts
• Using Drawing Compare
• Working with hatch and fill options and recreating hatch boundaries
• Creating and applying text styles with specific text properties
• Adding columns and table data to your drawings, including field data
• Working with multileaders; creating, modifying, add, remove, align, collect
• Adding symbols from the character map to drawings
• Working with spelling and dictionaries
• Creating multiple dimensions with a single command; continue, baseline
• Associating and re-associating dimensions to object geometry
• Adding dimension spacing and dimension breaks in a drawing
• Applying annotative properties to objects; text, dimensions, multileaders, hatching
• Working with annotative settings; annotation scale and applying annotative scaling

10. Reusable Content and Drawing Management

• Inserting and modifying blocks; ByBlock, insertion units, blocks with attributes, Enhanced Attribute Editor
• Creating and modifying block definitions; redefining a block, Block Editor, defining attributes
• Modifying attribute definitions with the Block Attribute Manager (BATTMAN)
• Working with External references (XREFs); attaching XREFs and underlays, clipping, visibility
• Layer naming conventions when binding XREFs
• Adjusting the settings of an underlay file or image
• Snapping to objects in XREF and underlay files
• Creating a hyperlink to another file or webpage
• Using the Blocks palette, DesignCenter, and tool palettes
• Create and manage object sets with groups
• Transfer information between drawing files

Conclusion

• Next steps