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

Download File Size:450.55 MB

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