AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 6 Sharing Drawings with Others

Transition your AutoCAD designs from concepts to workable construction documents.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Converting units from Imperial to Metric

1. Printing Drawings

• Creating quick plots
• Selecting a pen table
• Choosing line weights
• Creating a layout, part one: Choosing paper size
• Creating a layout, part two: Inserting a title block
• Creating a layout, part three: Cutting viewports
• Organizing layouts
• Reusing layouts

2. Properly Sizing Annotations on Printed Drawings

• Using the Annotative property to size text
• Using the Annotative property to size dimensions
• Using the Annotative property to size multileaders
• Changing the scale assigned to annotations
• Creating custom scales

3. Sharing Data with Others

• Saving drawings to other formats
• Plotting to PDF
• Plotting to the Design Web Format (DWF)
• Sending drawings via email
• Packaging and sending drawings using eTransmit

4. Checking Your Skills

• Intro: Creating a spot survey exhibit
• Demo: Creating a spot survey exhibit

Conclusion

• Goodbye