AutoCAD for Mac 2019 Essential Training

Learn the basics of AutoCAD for Mac, the macOS version of the popular CAD application. Get acquainted with the interface, file management, and the drawing toolset.

Introduction

• Working with AutoCAD on a Mac
• 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
• Tool bar
• 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
• Properties palette

7. Layers

• Object properties
• Layer basics
• Creating layer
• 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 paper space and model space
• Creating layouts
• Viewport basics
• Locking viewports
• Viewport layers

10. Annotations

• Text styles
• Single-line text
• Multi-line 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. Project Manager

• Sheet sets overview
• Creating tags
• Plotting a project

13. 3D Basics

• Views in 3D
• Visual styles
• Solid primitives
• 2D to 3D tools
• Modifying 3D objects

14. Advanced Tools

• Drawing recovery
• Auditing a drawing
• Purge

Conclusion

• Next steps