Lynda - Autocad 2015 Essential Training

Scott Onstott has been using AutoCAD for 24 years and has witnessed its evolution into the world-leading application for

computer-aided drafting and design. You too can harness its power and start creating detailed CAD drawings whatever your field:

design architecture or engineering. In this in-depth course Scott shows you how to draw precise measured 2D drawings-the basis of design communication the world over. Then he shows how to create and modify geometry layers blocks attributes dimensions and layouts and finally how to start sharing your drawings with others.

Topics include:

Changing workspaces

Converting drawings to new units

Drawing lines circles splines polygons and more

Moving copying rotating and scaling objects

Mirroring lengthening trimming and joining objects

Drawing accurately with coordinates and snapping

Creating gradients

Making dimension objects

Managing object and layer properties

Reusing content

Making external references

Adding annotations

Packaging and publishing CAD data