AutoCAD: Effective Annotating

Learn how to use AutoCAD, the flagship CAD platform from Autodesk, to effectively annotate your drawings.

Introduction

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

1. Introduction to Annotation in AutoCAD

• What is annotation in AutoCAD?
• Why use annotation?
• How do you annotate effectively (layers)?

2. Different Types of Annotation

• Text
• Dimensions
• Centerlines
• Leaders
• Tables
• Markup

3. Using Text Effectively in Your Drawings

• Setting up a text layer
• Text
• Multiline text
• Text styles
• Spelling
• Text align
• Justify

4. Dimensioning Accurately in Your Drawings

• Setting up a dimensioning layer
• Setting up a dimension style
• DIM command
• DIM layer override
• Dimension types
• QDIM command
• Continue and baseline
• DIMSPACE and DIMBREAK

5. Using Centerlines

• Setting up a centerline layer
• Center Mark
• Centerline

6. Leaders and Multileaders

• Setting up a leader layer
• QLEADER command
• Setting up a multileader style
• Placing a multileader
• Adding and removing a multileader
• Aligning multileaders
• Collecting multileaders

7. Setting Up an AutoCAD Table

• Setting up a table layer
• Setting up the table style
• Adding a table to the drawing
• Inserting data in to the AutoCAD table
• Using text fields in the AutoCAD table
• Working with cells in the AutoCAD table

8. Marking Up an AutoCAD Drawing

• Setting up a markup layer
• Using a wipeout effectively
• Using different types of revision cloud

Conclusion

• Next steps