Lynda - AutoCAD 2011 - Tips, Tricks & Industry Secrets

In AutoCAD 2011: Tips, Tricks, and Industry Secrets, Jeff Bartels shows AutoCAD users how to become more efficient power users, reducing the amount of time it takes to accomplish a task, increasing profit margins, and strengthening marketplace competitiveness. The course covers everything from shortcuts used in geometry creation, to program customization, to real world solutions to common problems. Interface customization, block and reference management skills, and express tool usage are also covered. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Creating macro enabled tools  

Using Auto Complete  

Disabling tool mode settings on the fly  

Moving and copying entities using Windows shortcuts  

Using the Calculator palette  

Formatting text  

Creating parent/child dimension styles  

Making dimensions easier to read  

Making global edits to attribute data and layer names  

Exchanging one block symbol for another  

Inserting content using drag and drop  

Navigating layer list using the keyboard  

Importing layouts from template files  

Consolidating backup files