AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training

Get started with AutoCAD 2018. Learn how to quickly and effectively navigate the user interface and create precise designs with this powerful software.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Exploring the User Interface

• Exploring the user interface
• Using the ribbon
• Changing workspaces
• Using the status bar
• Using the drawing tabs
• Using the navigation bar
• Using the ViewCube
• The shortcut menu
• File navigation dialog boxes
• Drafting Settings dialog box
• Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)

2. Managing Files and Options

• Opening, saving, and closing files
• Setting drawing units
• Converting drawing units
• Editing and managing options
• Using template files–DWT

3. Navigating Drawings

• Using Zoom commands
• Using pan
• Using the mouse
• Using the ViewCube
• Using the navigation bar
• Model and layout
• Saving and restoring views

4. Drawing Objects

• Lines
• Circles
• Arcs
• Ellipses
• Polylines and splines
• Rectangles and polygons
• Points and donuts

5. Modifying Objects

• Selecting objects
• Using Move and Copy
• Using Scale and Rotate
• Creating and using arrays
• Using Offset and Mirror
• Using Trim and Extend
• Using Stretch and Lengthen
• Using Break and Join
• Using grips and grip editing
• Using boundaries
• Using Fillet and Chamfer
• Using Divide and Measure
• Editing Polylines and Splines
• Using off-screen selection
• Using linetype gap selection

6. Drawing Accurately

• Using Grid and Snap
• Working with coordinates
• Using Polar Tracking
• Using Dynamic Input
• Using object snaps
• Using object-snap tracking
• Using ISODRAFT with isometric drawings

7. Hatching and Gradients

• Using the Hatch command
• Using the Gradient command
• Editing hatches and gradients

8. Using Text

• Working with text styles
• Single-line text
• Multiline Text (MTEXT)
• Aligning text
• Framing text in a title block
• Settings for changing text to MTEXT
• Selecting text objects
• Justification
• Numbered and lettered list formatting
• Uniform line spacing

9. Dimensioning

• Working with dimension styles
• Using dimensions
• Editing dimensions and dimension overrides
• Breaking dimensions
• Spacing dimensions
• Continue dimensions
• Baseline dimensions
• Automatic dimensioning
• Using multileaders

10. Object and Layer Properties

• Working with object properties
• Changing the linetype scale
• Using Hide and Isolate
• New layers and the layer dropdown menu
• Using the layer tools
• Other layer tools

11. Reusing Content

• Grouping objects
• Creating and using blocks
• Redefining block definitions
• Using the Explode command
• Creating a simple dynamic block
• Using WBLOCK
• Accessing external blocks from the Internet

12. Attributes and Tables

• Working with attribute definitions
• Creating a block with attributes
• Working with table styles
• Designing a table
• Adding fields to a table

13. External References

• Working with XREFs
• Attaching and overlaying XREFs
• Clipping XREFs
• Editing XREFs
• Editing XREFs in place
• Unnamed drawings
• Updating reference paths
• Missing reference files
• Changing path type
• Finding and replacing reference files
• Renaming unloaded references

14. Layouts and Annotation

• Creating a layout and adding a viewport
• Locking viewports
• Freezing viewport layers
• Adding a title block: Part 1
• Adding a title block: Part 2
• Using annotative text styles
• Using annotative dimensions
• Using revision clouds

15. Creating Output

• Page setups
• Plotting from Model and Layout tabs
• Packaging with eTransmit
• Batch plotting
• Outputting to different file formats
• Sharing design views from AutoCAD

16. Using PDFs in AutoCAD

• Setting a PDF layer
• Using the PDFIMPORT command
• SHX text recognition with the PDFSHXTEXT command
• Using the PDFATTACH command

17. Technology and Performance

• High-resolution monitor support in AutoCAD
• Improved DWG save performance
• 3D DWG file performance in AutoCAD
• Enhanced 2D display performance

Conclusion

• Next steps