Autodesk AutoCAD Creative License

Taking the AutoCAD Tour

• Navigating the working environment
• Working with files
• Displaying objects

Creating Basic Drawings

• Inputting data
• Creating basic objects
• Using object snaps
• Using polar tracking and PolarSnap
• Using object snap tracking
• Working with units

Manipulating Objects

• Selecting objects in the drawing
• Changing an object’s position
• Creating new objects from existing objects
• Changing the angle of an object’s position
• Creating a mirror image of existing objects
• Creating object patterns
• Changing an object’s size

Drawing Organization & Inquiry Commands

• Using layers
• Changing object properties
• Matching object properties
• Using the properties palette
• Using line types
• Using inquiry commands

Altering Objects

• Trimming and extending objects to defined boundaries
• Creating parallel and offset geometry
• Joining objects
• Breaking an object into two objects
• Applying a radius corner to two objects
• Creating an angled corner between two objects
• Changing part of an object’s shape

Working with Layouts

• Using layouts
• Using viewports
  Annotating the drawing
• Creating multiline text
• Creating single line text
• Using text styles
• Editing text

Dimensioning

• Creating dimensions
• Using dimension styles
• Editing dimensions
• Using multileaders

Hatching Objects

• Hatching objects
• Editing hatch objects

Working with Reusable Content

• Using blocks
• Working with DesignCenter
• Using tool palettes

Creating Additional Drawing Objects

• Working with polylines
• Creating splines
• Creating ellipses
• Using tables

Plotting Your Drawings

• Using page setups
• Plotting drawings

Creating Drawing Templates

• Using drawing templates

Drawing Objects

• Creating and editing multilines
• Creating revision clouds
• Wipeout objects
• Boundaries
• Regions

Manipulating Objects & Data

• Selecting objects with quick select
• Purging objects
• Working with point objects
• Dividing and measuring objects
• Using QuickCalc for performing calculations

Template Drawing Creation

• Creating drawing templates

Dimensioning & Annotation

• Introduction to annotation scaling
• Controlling annotation scale
• Working with text
• Using multileaders
• Dimensioning
• Creating center marks
• Creating ordinate dimensions
• Creating geometric dimensions and tolerances
• Working with dimension substyles and overrides

Reusable Content

• Using DesignCenter
• Creating custom tool palettes
• Organizing tool palettes
• Sharing tool palettes
• Using external references
• Managing external references
• Referencing non-native file types

Blocks & Attributes

• Working with blocks
• Creating attributes
• Editing attributes

Dynamic Blocks

• Using dynamic blocks
• Adding parameters to dynamic blocks
• Adding actions to dynamic blocks
• Using parameter sets
• Creating dynamic blocks

Layer Management & Best Practices

• Working with layer filters
• Using the layer states manager
• Using layer standards

Layouts & Views

• Creating layouts
• Modifying layouts and using page setups
• Creating layout viewports
• Working with layout viewports
• Controlling object visibility in layout viewports
• Plotting
• Working with plotter configuration files
• Creating and applying
• Plot style tables
• Publishing drawings

Introduction to Sheet Sets

• Creating sheet sets
• Working with sheet sets
• Setting sheet set properties
• Using fields in sheet sets
• Using attributes in sheet sets
• Publishing
• Transmitting and Archiving Sheet Sets

Working with Tables

• Working with table styles
• Creating and editing tables
• Creating advanced tables
• Extracting attributes to tables
• Exporting and importing tables
• Creating tables linked to external data