AutoCAD LT Essential Training

Get started with AutoCAD LT. Learn how to create your own CAD designs and communicate design intent on the world's most well-known 2D CAD platform.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• The new AutoCAD LT 2019 interface

1. Getting Started: The AutoCAD Interface

• The application menu
• The ribbon and panels
• Dialog boxes and palettes
• The status bar
• Logging into A360 Drive and saving to web and mobile (AutoCAD LT 2019 only)

2. Getting Started: Drawing Simple Geometry

• OSNAP and OTRACK
• POLAR and ORTHO
• Lines, arcs, and circles
• Polylines, polygons, and splines
• Using Zoom and Pan

3. Getting Started: Annotating Simple Designs

• Text styles
• Single line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT)
• Dimension styles
• Dimensioning simple designs
• Adding a simple table

4. Getting Started: Communicating Your Design Intent

• Creating a simple titleblock
• Defining your page setup
• Adding new layouts and scaled viewports
• Using annotative scaling
• Printing and plotting

5. Working with AutoCAD LT File Types

• Understanding full AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
• Opening up an AutoCAD drawing (DWG) file
• Starting a new drawing with an AutoCAD template file (DWT)
• Setting up and using the appropriate AutoCAD template file
• Saving drawings in various file formats

6. Working in an AutoCAD Drawing

• Specifying distance and angle with Dynamic Input
• Line command options on the shortcut menu
• Erasing objects
• Drawing rectangles
• Drawing polygons
• Undo and redo actions

7. Further Drafting Tools in AutoCAD LT

• Drawing with Snap and Grid
• Using workspaces
• Adding settings and information to the status bar

8. Making Changes in Your Drawings

• Editing tools in AutoCAD LT
• Selecting objects
• Using and editing with grips
• Advanced editing tools in AutoCAD LT

9. Organizing Your Drawing with Layers

• What are layers?
• Layers in new drawings
• Working with different types of layers
• Setting the current layer
• Layer tools

10. Object Properties

• Quick properties
• The Properties palette
• Matching properties
• Quick Select

11. Using AutoCAD Blocks

• What are blocks?
• Working with blocks
• Inserting blocks
• Inserting blocks using the tool palettes
• Inserting blocks using DesignCenter

12. Using the Model and Layout Tabs Effectively

• The Page Setup Manager in detail
• Printing from model and layout tabs
• Creating layouts
• Creating multiple layout viewports

13. Using Text and Annotation in Depth

• Using text styles
• Multiline text and single line text
• Editing text
• Spell checking
• Using multileaders
• Creating tables

14. Using Hatching

• The hatch creation tab
• Working with hatch patterns and hatch scales
• Editing hatch patterns
• Grip editing hatch boundaries

15. Dimensioning a Drawing Effectively

• Adding dimensions
• Editing dimensions using grips
• Editing the dimension text
• Dimension editing tools

16. Printing Your Drawing

• Previewing the plot
• Print and plot settings
• Batch plotting using the PUBLISH command

Conclusion

• Next steps