AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings

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

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