AutoCAD web app: Taking Your Drawings Online

Learn how to take your AutoCAD drawings into the browser-based version of AutoCAD and work on your designs from virtually anywhere.

Introduction

• Take your AutoCAD drawings online in the AutoCAD web app
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• The new AutoCAD 2019 interface
• The new AutoCAD web app command line

1. Introducing AutoCAD Web

• Your Autodesk account in AutoCAD 2019
• Saving from AutoCAD desktop to the cloud
• Logging into and using the AutoCAD web app

2. The Home Screen

• The folder structure and creating a new folder
• Uploading a new drawing
• Starting a new AutoCAD web drawing

3. Opening an Existing Drawing from the Cloud

• Locating and opening your drawing in the cloud
• The fonts display warning and Simplex
• Zooming in and out in your drawing

4. Using Views in the AutoCAD web app

• Using modelspace and the layout tabs
• The WYSIWYG display in your Layout tabs

5. Using Properties in the AutoCAD web app

• Selecting an object
• Checking and changing the properties of an object

6. Using Layers in the AutoCAD web app

• Locking a layer
• Changing layer visibility
• Changing layer color
• Creating a new layer
• Setting the current drafting layer

7. Using Settings in the AutoCAD web app

• Polar tracking and setting increments
• Setting object snaps
• Using object snaps and snap overrides in your drawing
• Setting your drawing units
• Changing your zoom direction in the Navigation panel

8. Drafting in the AutoCAD web app

• Understand changes to the Draw tab
• The LINE command
• The POLYLINE command
• The CIRCLE command
• The ARC command
• The RECTANGLE command

9. Modifying Drawings in the AutoCAD web app

• Understand changes to the Modify tab
• The MOVE command
• Adding corners to objects with the FILLET (0 radius) command
• Extending and trimming objects
• Mirroring and copying objects
• Offsetting objects
• Rotating objects
• Scaling objects
• Matching object properties

10. Annotating Drawings in the AutoCAD web app

• Understand changes to the Annotation tab
• Annotation in AutoCAD web (Simplex only)
• Adding MTEXT to your drawings
• Adding dimensions to your drawings
• Adding multileaders
• Working with revision clouds

11. View Controls and Keyboard Entry in the AutoCAD web app

• Using Undo and Redo
• Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V)
• Zoom Extents and Zoom Window

12. Saving Your Drawing to the Cloud in the AutoCAD web app

• Using the Save button to cache your drawing
• Opening your saved drawing from the AutoCAD web home screen

13. Using the New Command Line

• The new command line
• Typing commands
• Using submenus in commands

Conclusion

• Next steps