Autocad Essential

Getting Started
• Exploring the AutoCAD 2023 for windows User Interface
• Exploring AutoCAD’s Graphical Use Interface
• Predrawn Symbol with the Tool Palettes
• Exploring AutoCAD’s Workspaces
• The AutoCAD ribbon

Creating Your first Drawing
• Home Tabl’s Draw and Modify Panels Drawing lines and rectangles
• Canceling , Erasing & Undoing
• Using Coordinate Systems
• Using Polar Coordinates
• Drawing Circles, Arcs and Polygons

• Filleting & Chamfering Lines

Setting Up & Using the Drafting Tools
• Fine-Tuning the Measurement System
• Setting Up the Drawing Limits
• Understanding Scale Factors
• Using Polar Tracking & Modifying an Object
• Making a Preliminary Sketch

• Aligning Objects by Using Object Snap Tracking

Organizing Object with Blocks & Groups
• Block Definition Dialog Box
• Scaling & Rotating Blocks
• Replacing Existing Files with Blocks
• Understanding the Annotation Scale
• Ungrouping, Adding & Subtracting

Keeping Track of Layers
• Working on Layers
• Controlling Layer Visibility
• Finding the Layers You Want
• Taming an Unwieldy List of Layers

Editing & Reusing Data to Work Efficiently
• Creating & Using Templates
• Using Blocks from ADC and Tool Pale
• Making Changes to an Associative Array
• Using Osnap Tracking to Place Objects
• Using Smart Select to filter objects quickly

• Eliminating Unused Blocks, Layer, Linetypes, Shapes, Styles, and more

Mastering Viewing Tools, Hatches
• Understanding Regeneration & Redrawing
• Using Hatch Patterns in your drawing
• Controlling Hatch with the Options Panel
• Controlling Hatch Behavior, Default Layer, Layout Scale, and ISO Line Weight

• Managing Xrefs (attach & edit)

Understanding Plot Styles
• Choosing Between Color-Dependent and Named Plot St

Adding Text to Drawings

• Exploring Text Formatting
• Converting between TEXT and MTEXT (ET tool)
• Play Comments efficiently by Smart Voice

Drawing Curves
• Marking Divisions on Curves
• Dividing Objects into Segments of Equal Length
• Dividing Objects into Specified Lengths

Getting and Exchanging Data from Drawings

• Finding the Area of Closed Boundaries & an Object
• Adding and Subtracting Areas with the Area Command
• Determining the Drawing’s Status
• Getting Information from System Variables

Managing and Sharing Your Drawings
• Sharing Drawings over the Internet Protecting ZWCAD Drawing Files (PDF plot, Dwf plot)
• Protecting AutoCAD Drawing Files

• ePublishing Your Drawings (e-Transmit)

Laying Out Your Printer Output

• Configuring Output Devices
• Plotting in Model space
• The essential and beyond

Storing, Presenting and Extracting data
• Editing table styles & creating tables
• Using fields in table cells

• Editing the table data