This lecture gives an overview of the interface. It discusses the ribbon, command line, status bar, workspaces, UCS icon, sticky panels, application menu, and more.

A Recap of what was covered in this section

Covers many document related topics such as templates ans saving.

What we have covered in this section

Learning to use an essential tool in autocad....the mouse

Learn how to create lines in AutoCAD

Creating Circles in your drawing

Learn to create polygons

Learn to create rectangles

Learn to create arcs

Learn to draw elipses

Learn to create polylines

Lean to create splines

A fun project where you practice all the object creation techniques that you have learned so far. Have fun and create your dream house.

Additional Material for you to review

Understand what ortho and polar mods can do

Learn to input commands manually into the command line

Learn to specify points manually with angles

Specify points with relative and absolute coordinates

Learn how to use object snaps with your drawings

Use dynamic input in creating objects

Understanding and using the right click menu in your workflow

Learn different selection techniques

Change the settings for how you select objects

Learn how to find the distance ob your objects

Learn to move copy and rotate objects that you have created.

Learning to undo and redo your actions

Create fillets and chamfers in your objects

Edit your objects with the trim and extend commands

how to use the quick calculator in your work

Putting the quick calculator to work for you

Using the mirror and scale commands to manipulate your design

A look at creating arrays

Using object snap tracking to create your objects

Using the UCS icon to make drawing easier

Using the erase and oops command

offsetting objects that you created to speed up your work

Using the stretch command to maniupliate your objects

Leraning how to use explode and join on objects

Taking a look at grips and what you can do with them

Using the grips to modify your objects

A second summary of what we have covered so far

Learn how to create layers

Learn how to name various layers in your design

Learn about layer properties

Learn how to delete layers

Give your layers descriptions to make them work better

Change the location of objects among various layers to work more effectively

Isolate objects so you can work without making changes to the rest of your design

Understanding the properties of objects

Look at how objects inherit properties without setting the properties

Learning to work with single line text

Learn how to use various justifications and apply them to single line text

Learn how to change the style of your single line text

Learn how to add multi line text to your design

Learn now to add multileaders to your design

Learn how to edit the options that are available for multileaders

Learn how to add and remove leaders from your design

Make changes to the style of multileaders with the style manager

Learn to edit the multileader

An example of how to import text into your design from an external source

Learn how to create tables for your design

Edit the styles of your tables

Modify the tables you create

Practice making text by creating text that is similiar to what is shown

Understand the parts of a dimension

Adding dimensions to their own layer

Create linear dimensions in your design

Learn about aligned dimensions

Learn how to apply baseline dimenions

Create Continued dimensions and learn how to use them

Add angular dimensions to your objects

Create dimensions that annotate the radius and diameter

Learn how to modify your dimesions

Learn how to break dimensions so they dont become too cluttered

Learn how to add spacing among your dimensions

Learn how to add jogged lines to your dimensions

Learn how to change the styles of your dimensions

A third summary of what we have covered so far.

See if you can add dimensions like the ones shown

Learn how to add hatching to your design

Learn how to scale and change the angle of your hatch

Adjust the origin of your hatch

Learning how to change the gap tolerance for hatching

Create a solid fill instead of a hatch

Adjust the order of your objects when they are overlapping

A fourth summary of what we have covered so far