AutoCAD 2000 Basics

Training Provided by The Virtual Training Company AutoCAD 2000 is one of the world's most popular drafting packages. This 4 hour introductory tutorial is geared toward the beginner, allowing them to feel comfortable within the application. Virtual Training Company author Adam Beare will go over the menus and tools of AutoCAD, along with the basics of drawing and drafting. Upon completion of the tutorial, the student should have a good overall knowledge of the drafting process, taking their project all the way to print. Start learning now by clicking one of the topics below.

AutoCAD 2000 Basics

Setting Up AutoCAD

1. Intro to AutoCAD
2. Setting Up the Display Properties
3. Confining AutoCAD's Colors
4. Auto Saves Etc....
5. Getting to Know AutoCAD
6. AutoCAD and its Areas

The Basics of AutoCAD

1. The Menus
2. The Toolbars
3. The Drawing Area
4. The Status Area
5. The Command Prompt
6. The Command Structure a
7. The Smart Menu

The Basics of Setting up a Drawing

1. The New Command and the New Drawing Wizards
2. Setting Units
3. Setting Drawing Limits

The Basics of Drafting

1. Coordinate system and Absolute Coordinate System
2. Relative Coordinate System
3. Polar Coordinate System
4. Direction and Distances
5. Ortho Tracking and Polar Tracking with Direction and Distances
6. How to Select and Un-Select
7. Layers and How to Use Them
8. Getting Around in Your Drawing Using the Zoom and Pan Commands
9. Grips Selection

Basics Drawing

1. The Basic Line
2. Ray
3. Contraction Line
4. Poly Line
5. Polygon
6. Rectang
7. Arc
8. Circle
9. Spline
10. Ellipse
11. Insert Block
12. Make Block
13. Point and Its Sub Commands
14. Hatch
15. End of Drawing Tools

The Basic Modify Commands I.E.

1. Properties
2. Match Properties
3. Edit Hatch
4. Edit Poly Line
5. Edit Spline
6. Edit Text
7. Erase
8. Copy/Multi Copy
9. Mirror
10. Offset
11. Array
12. Move
13. Rotate
14. Scale
15. Stretch
16. Lengthen
17. Trim
18. Extend
19. Break
20. Chamfer
21. Fillet
22. Explode

Annotation

1. Intro to Annotation
2. Mtext
3. Using Single Line Text
4. Spelling Checker
5. Setting Up Text Style
6. Liner Dimension
7. Aligned Dimension
8. Ordinate Dimension
9. Radius Dimension
10. Diameter Dimensions
11. Angular Dimensions
12. Base line Dimensions
13. Continue Dimensions
14. Leader Dimensions
15. Tolerance Dimensions
16. Oblique Dimensions
17. Align Text
18. Dimension Styles
19. Setting Current Dimensions Style
20. QDim Dimensions
21. Tolerance Dimensions

The End Product

1. What is a Layout
2. How to Use a Layout
3. How to Set up a Layout / Viewports and Layouts
4. Making Single Viewport
5. Making Polygonal Viewport
6. Making Viewports Out of Closed Shapes
7. Clipping Viewports
8. Setting Up Viewport So They Don't Plot
9. Using Layers in Viewports
10. Setting Dimension Text to Self Scale to the Layout
11. Using Pen Settings and Making Pen Settings
12. Plotting and Printing
13. Last Word on Pen Tables and Plotting

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