AutoCAD 2021 Essential Training

This course offers essential training needed to work toward becoming a competent user of AutoCAD software, regardless of which AutoCAD toolkits you use.

Introduction

• The essentials of AutoCAD
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• The new AutoCAD 2021 interface

1. Using Units and Options

• Setting drawing units
• Converting drawing units
• Editing and managing options
• Working with templates: DWT

2. Drawing More Objects

• Rectangles and polygons
• Points and donuts
• Ellipses
• Isometric views with elliptical arcs

3. Modifying Objects

• Selecting objects
• Using Move and Copy
• Using Rotate and Scale
• Creating and using arrays
• Using Offset and Mirror
• Using Stretch and Lengthen
• Using Trim and Extend
• Using Break and Join
• Using grips and grip editing
• Using boundaries
• Using Fillet and Chamfer
• Using Divide and Measure
• Editing polylines and splines

4. Hatching and Gradients

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

5. More Text Techniques

• Aligning text
• Framing text in a title block

6. More Dimensioning Techniques

• Editing dimensions and dimension overrides
• Breaking and spacing dimensions
• Continue and baseline dimensions
• Automatic dimensioning
• Using multileaders

7. Reusing Content

• Using groups
• Creating and inserting a block
• Using the Explode command
• Redefining a block definition
• Using WBLOCK
• Creating a simple dynamic block

8. Attributes and Tables

• Creating a simple block with attributes
• Enhanced Attribute Editor
• Working with table styles
• Designing a table
• Adding fields to a table

9. External References (XREFs)

• Working with XREFs
• Attaching and overlaying XREFs
• Altering and clipping XREFs
• Editing XREFs
• Editing XREFs in place

Conclusion

• Next steps