AutoCAD for Mac 2018 Essential Training

Learn the basics of AutoCAD for Mac. Get acquainted with the interface, file management, and how to best leverage the application's toolset.

Introduction

• Welcome
• How to use the exercise files
• AutoCAD versions

1. The Interface

• Components of the interface
• Accessing the palettes
• Command line overview
• Drawing tabs
• Layout tabs
• Toolbar
• User preferences
• Use the Help menu
• Right-click menu

2. File Management

• File types basics
• Opening files
• Saving files
• Configuring a new drawing
• Templates
• Drawing units

3. Navigation

• Zoom commands
• Panning
• Regenerating and redrawing
• Views

4. Basic Geometry

• Geometry of your geometry
• Absolute-coordinate entry
• Relative-coordinate entry
• Polar-coordinate entry
• Lines
• Circles and arcs
• Polylines
• Polygons and rectangles
• Ellipses
• Splines
• Points

5. Geometry Tools

• Grid and Snap
• Ortho and Polar
• Object snap
• Object-snap tracking
• Measuring tools
• Divide

6. Modifying Geometry

• Selection methods
• Quick Select
• Move
• Copy
• Rotate
• Scale
• Stretch
• Trim and Extend
• Offset
• Mirror
• Array
• Polyline editing
• Join and Break
• Fillet and Chamfer

7. Layers

• Object properties
• Layer basics
• Creating layers
• Layer tools
• Advanced layer tools
• Layer states

8. Advanced Objects

• Hatch basics
• Using gradients
• Groups
• Blocks
• Creating blocks
• Updating blocks
• Dynamic blocks
• Dynamic blocks actions and parameters
• Dynamic blocks visibility parameter
• Dynamic blocks practice
• External references
• Binding external references
• Underlaying images
• Underlaying PDFs

9. Layouts

• Understanding paperspace and modelspace
• Creating layouts
• Viewport basics
• Locking viewports
• Viewport layers

10. Annotations

• Text styles
• Single-line text
• Multiline text
• Dimension styles
• Linear dimensions
• Aligned dimensions
• Special dimensions
• Dimension tool
• Leaders
• Dimension overrides
• Annotation scaling

11. Plotting and Sharing

• Page setups
• Plot styles
• Plot dialog
• Batch publishing
• Pack and Go

12. 3D Basics

• Views in 3D
• 3D basic geometry
• Modifying 3D objects

Conclusion

• Next steps