AutoCAD 2D Advanced
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In Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
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Leamington spa, warwicks...
The advanced AutoCAD 2D course builds on the foundation level skills, and concentrates on exploring the effects of fully exploiting the standard commands to achieve better results. More of the system will be examined and the importance and use of system variables will be explored.
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Blocks and WBlocks
- Creating and using
- Nested blocks
- Wblocking an entire drawing
- The importance of layer zero
- Assigning attributes
Attribute Extraction
- Using the wizard
- Automatically producing parts lists and BOM
- Linking directly with Excel
Purging a Drawing
- Removing unwanted blocks, layers, linetypes, text styles, dimension styles, multi-line styles, plot styles and shapes
External References
- Advantages and disadvantages compared with Insert
- Effects on file size
- Automatic updates
AutoCAD Design Centre
- Inserting blocks, layers and styles
- Sharing layouts and plot styles
- The effect on file size and management
Custom Toolbars and Icons
- Creating new toolbars and icons
- The effects on the MNS menu file
- Using MENULOAD to remove any customisation
Additional Features
- Shortcut Keys
- Hyperlinks
- Templates
AutoLISP
- An introduction to AutoLISP programming using the visual LISP editor.
- Loading and running LISP programmes
Plotting
- Adding a plotter
- Plot styles
- Model space/paper space and layouts
- Using tiled and floating view ports
- Obtaining scale factors for plotting
AutoCAD 2D Advanced