Creating an Architectural Drawing with AutoCAD 2013

Learn the basics of AutoCAD for Mac 2020. Discover how to create and modify CAD drawings, add annotations, and plot, publish, and share your work.

Introduction

• AutoCAD 2020 for the Mac
• What you should know
• AutoCAD versions

1. The Interface

• The welcome screen
• 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
• 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 mode and polar tracking
• 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

7. Layers

• Object properties
• Layer basics
• Creating layers
• 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
• PDF underlays

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. 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