AutoCAD 2016 Beyond the Basics

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Important – Download These First – Working Files

Lecture 2: What You Will Learn

Lecture 3: About The Author

Chapter 2: Drawing Navigation

Lecture 1: See What You Want, When You Want To – Named Views

Lecture 2: Changing The Way You Look At Things – DView

Lecture 3: Viewports Are Not Just For Paper Space – Tiled Viewports In Model Space

Lecture 4: Advanced Navigation Tools

Chapter 3: Advanced Operations

Lecture 1: Doing More With The Application Menu

Lecture 2: CAD With Both Hands – Windows Based Keyboard Shortcuts

Lecture 3: A Little Help Goes A Long Way – Construction Lines And Rays

Lecture 4: Solids And Donuts

Lecture 5: Draw Twice As Much In Half The Time – Multi Lines

Lecture 6: Advanced Polyline And Spline Editing

Lecture 7: Groups

Lecture 8: Using The User Coordinate System

Chapter 4: Advanced Tools

Lecture 1: Align And 3D Align – Lining Up Complex Objects

Lecture 2: Lengthen – Making Objects Longer

Lecture 3: Join – Bringing Two Objects Together

Lecture 4: Revision Cloud – Showing Others Where Your Drawing Changed

Lecture 5: Quick Select – Quickly Apply Selection Filters To Get What You Want

Lecture 6: Filters – Create And Save Filter Lists For Your Selections

Lecture 7: Rename Tool – A Block By Any Other Name, Is Still A Block

Lecture 8: Divide – Measure

Lecture 9: Quick Calculator

Lecture 10: Select Similar – Pick It Once

Lecture 11: Add Selected – Why Start A Command When You Do Not Have To

Lecture 12: Chapter Project

Chapter 5: Object Visibility

Lecture 1: Hide, Isolate, And End Isolation On Selected Objects

Lecture 2: Transparency – Old Things Just Fade Away

Lecture 3: Linetype Scale – Scale Size Is Relative

Lecture 4: Draw Order

Chapter 6: Annotation

Lecture 1: Advanced Text Features

Lecture 2: Import Text – Can I Copy Your Notes?

Lecture 3: Fields – If You Link It, The Text Will Come

Lecture 4: Advanced Table Features

Lecture 5: Annotative Scaling – One Text To Rule Them All

Lecture 6: Chapter Project

Chapter 7: Sheet Sets

Lecture 1: What Are Sheet Sets And How Do I Use Them?

Lecture 2: Creating Sheet Sets

Lecture 3: Using Fields To Get Sheet Set Data

Lecture 4: Drawing Properties

Lecture 5: Advanced Sheet Set Features

Lecture 6: Publishing From Sheet Sets

Chapter 8: Output

Lecture 1: Plotting With PC3 Files

Lecture 2: Plotting With CTB Files

Lecture 3: Plotting With STB Files

Lecture 4: Publisher-Batch Plotting – Plot Everything At Once

Lecture 5: Animation – Camera Views, Pathways, Create And Output

Chapter 9: Using Data

Lecture 1: Xref – What, When And How?

Lecture 2: Attach And Overlay – Circular References

Lecture 3: Visually Displaying Your Referenced Data

Lecture 4: Binding – When Your Reference Is Not A Reference Anymore

Lecture 5: Xclip – Getting Picky About Your Reference

Lecture 6: Managing Xrefs – DWF, DGN, JPG, TIF, PDF And DWG

Lecture 7: Linking Data From OLE Objects

Lecture 8: Reference Manager – An Often Unknown Tool

Lecture 9: Linking And Extracting Data

Chapter 10: Dynamic Blocks

Lecture 1: Know The Power Of Dynamic Blocks

Lecture 2: Implementing Dynamic Blocks In Your Drawing

Lecture 3: Creating Dynamic Blocks

Lecture 4: Action, Parameters, Parameter Sets And Constraints

Lecture 5: Testing In The Block Editor

Lecture 6: Chapter Project

Chapter 11: Parametric Constraints

Lecture 1: Constraining Your Data To Ensure Its Quality

Lecture 2: Exploring The Different Types Of Constraints

Lecture 3: Creating Constraints In Your Model

Lecture 4: Using Constraints In The Design Process

Lecture 5: Managing Constraints In Your Files

Chapter 12: Action Recorder

Lecture 1: Action Recorder – Do It Once, Why Do It Again?

Lecture 2: Editing Recorded Actions

Lecture 3: Running And Managing Recorded Actions

Chapter 13: Customization

Lecture 1: Customizing AutoCAD With The CUI

Lecture 2: Creating Commands

Lecture 3: Create And Customize Toolbars And Menus

Lecture 4: Customizing The Ribbon

Lecture 5: Customizing Workspaces

Lecture 6: QAT

Lecture 7: Mouse Buttons – Get Five If You Can

Lecture 8: Quick Properties

Lecture 9: PGPFile – Keyboard Commands

Lecture 10: Script Files

Lecture 11: Tool Pallets – Using, Adding Content And Loading

Lecture 12: Custom Linetypes

Lecture 13: Using the System Variables Monitor

Chapter 14: File Management

Lecture 1: New Features Overview

Lecture 2: Template Files – Working With And Creating Them