AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training

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.

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