Autoplay
Autocomplete
Previous Lesson
Complete and Continue
AutoCAD for Events
Welcome!
Welcome to the course Learning AutoCAD for Event Professionals! (2:05)
Introduction
What you need to know before starting this course (3:55)
Your AutoCAD For Events Course Notes
Mac User Notes - the Downloadable PDF
Using course files (1:16)
Opening an existing file (2:04)
Getting to know AutoCAD
Application Menu (4:21)
The Ribbon (6:06)
Dialog boxes and Palettes (3:56)
Status Bar (5:28)
Command Line (3:37)
AutoCAD ShortCuts Download Sheet
SECTION TEST | Getting to know AutoCAD
Workspace Setup
Tune in your workspace setup (1:03)
Background Colour (5:00)
Object Selection Pickbox Size (2:18)
Palettes setup (3:27)
Drawing Units (6:13)
SECTION TEST | Workspace Setup Test
Navigating Around The Drawing
Zooming and Panning (7:05)
SECTION TEST | Navigation
Layers
Layer Properties Manager and Changing Layer Colour (4:12)
Layer Linetypes and Lineweights (12:15)
Creating, deleting and protecting layers (5:32)
Layer visibility settings (2:21)
Layer Management in design (6:49)
SECTION TEST | Layers
Modifying Objects
Select Objects (4:27)
Move and copy objects (6:53)
Rotate and Scale (8:01)
SECTION TEST | Modifying Objects
Drawing A Site Plan
Introduction (0:38)
Object Snapping and Object Tracking (8:15)
Clearspan Marquees (Rectangle, Hatch) (10:15)
Big Tops & Traditional Marquees (Rectangles, Fillet, Offset, Linetype) (15:05)
Creating unique structures/shapes (Polygons) (9:46)
Fence lines (Polylines) (11:49)
Trackway panels (Rectangle, Offset, Hatch, Group, Array) (17:01)
Editing Polylines and Splines (9:09)
Gradient Hatch (5:33)
SECTION TEST | Drawing
Blocks
Creating and Inserting Blocks (11:43)
Exploding and redefining a Block (7:37)
WBLOCK (7:46)
SECTION TEST | Blocks
Annotating
Text styles (5:01)
Adding Text to your plan (9:55)
Creating a Dimension Style (10:49)
Adding Dimensions to the plan (5:48)
Creating a Site Map Key/Legend (21:06)
Creating a map grid reference overlay (22:34)
SECTION TEST | Annotation
External References
Working with XREFs (3:46)
Attaching an XREF (5:57)
Changing and clipping an XREF (3:58)
Editing XREFs (5:05)
Editing XREFs in the host drawing (3:54)
SECTION TEST | External References
Plotting (Creating a PDF of your plan)
Creating a Titleblock (6:44)
Defining your Page Setup (6:12)
Adding viewports and duplicating layouts (11:51)
Plotting & Creating a PDF (9:00)
A quick look at viewport layer properties (4:49)
SECTION TEST | Plotting
Application Menu
For this lesson you'll need to download the DWG from the link below
Download
ESD Sample Plan - All.dwg
Complete and Continue