Lynda AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training

AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training

AutoCAD 2018 is a powerful designing and drafting software used to create precise 2D and 3D designs. In this beginner's course, learn how to get started with AutoCAD. Shaun Bryant covers the basics of the user interface, showing how to use the ribbon, change workspaces, use the ViewCube, and work with the Quick Access Toolbar. Shaun also demonstrates how to manage files and options, navigate your drawings, and draw and modify objects. Plus, he explains how to draw more accurately with Grid and Snap, use text and annotations to help others get a clearer understanding of your designs, and work with the native DWG file type. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be prepared to use AutoCAD competently in any industry—architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or product design.

Topics include:

- Exploring the user interface
- Using the ribbon, status bar, and ViewCube
- Opening, saving, and closing files
- Setting and converting drawing units
- Navigating drawings
- Saving and restoring views
- Drawing and modifying objects
- Drawing accurately
- Reusing content
- Creating output
- Using PDFs in AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2018 New Features

Explore the new features in AutoCAD 2018, and learn how to leverage the functionality to bolster your productivity, increase your effectiveness, and create the kind of precise, measured 2D drawings that form the basis of design communication the world over. In this course, Shaun Bryant helps you understand the benefits of the new AutoCAD 2018 enhancements, leading you through each new feature. Shaun explains how to work with features like the Drafting Settings dialog box and the Quick Access Toolbar, and shows how to use off-screen selection and linetype gap selection. Plus, he shares how to use PDFs in AutoCAD and change text to MTEXT, and goes into technology and performance enhancements such as high-res monitor support.

Topics include:

- Working with the File Navigation dialog box
- Using the Quick Access Toolbar
- Updating reference paths
- Changing path types
- Finding and replacing reference files
- Renaming unloaded references
- Using linetype gap selection
- Sharing design views from AutoCAD
- Setting a PDF layer
- Using the PDFIMPORT and PDFATTACH commands
- Changing text to MTEXT

AutoCAD: 2D & 3D Elevations

Enhance and emphasize your designs to create professional 2D and 3D elevations. This course demonstrates how to use AutoCAD to set up accurate plans, modify layouts, adjust viewports, add 2D elevations, and develop 3D elevations. Join Shaun Bryant as he takes you through how to customize layers, hatches, backgrounds, annotations, modelspaces, and more.

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