Introduction
Welcome
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Using the exercise files
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1. Exploring the User Interface
Exploring the user interface
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Using the ribbon
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Changing workspaces
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Customizing the user interface
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Editing command aliases
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Accessing help
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2. Managing Files and Options
Opening saving and closing files
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Selecting drawing units
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Converting drawings to new units
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Editing program and drawing options
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Using and creating templates
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3. Navigating Drawings
Using commands and panning a drawing
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Using the Zoom command to navigate
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Understanding model and paper spaces
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Saving and restoring views
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4. Drawing Objects
Lines
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Circles
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Arcs
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Ellipses
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Splines
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Polylines
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Rectangles and polygons
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Points and donuts
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5. Modifying Objects
Selecting objects
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Moving and copying
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Rotating and scaling
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Arraying objects
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Offsetting and mirroring
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Stretching and lengthening
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Trimming and extending
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Breaking and joining
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Editing with grips
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Creating boundaries and cleaning up
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Performing Boolean operations on regions
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Using the fillet chamfer and blend commands
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Dividing and measuring
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Editing polylines and splines
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6. Drawing Accurately
Using Grid and Snap
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Making isometric drawings
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Understanding coordinate systems
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Using polar tracking
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Enabling the heads-up display
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Working with object snaps
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Finding the Geometric center
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Using the From command
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Employing object-snap tracking
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Creating coordinate systems of your own
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7. Practice Drawing Projects
Engineering project: Part drawing
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Architectural project: Attaching a sketch
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Architectural project: Drawing walls
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Architectural project: Cutting openings
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Architectural project: Drawing doors
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Architectural project: Adding details
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8. Hatching and Creating Gradients
Using the Hatch command
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Creating hatch patterns by selecting objects
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Creating gradients
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Editing hatch boundaries
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9. Writing
Creating text styles
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Writing single-line text
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Creating a text frame
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Writing multiline text
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Aligning text objects
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10. Dimensioning
Measuring distances and areas
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Making dimension objects
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Editing existing dimensions
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Editing a dimension style
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Creating dimension substyles
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Making dimension overrides
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Creating multileaders
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11. Managing Object and Layer Properties
Hiding and isolating objects
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Editing object properties
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Changing linetype scale
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Creating layers
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Using the Layer dropdown menu
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Accessing specialized layer tools
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Saving and restoring layer states
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Altering object display order
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12. Reusing Content
Working with groups
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Creating and inserting blocks
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Using ByLayer and ByBlock object properties
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Redefining blocks
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Exploding objects with Explode and Xplode
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Designing a dynamic block
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Accessing external block content
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Redefining local blocks with global blocks
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13. Defining Attributes and Configuring Tables
Designing a symbol with text placeholders
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Designing attribute definitions
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Defining a block with attributes
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Creating a table
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Styling a table's title text
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Adding fields to tables
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14. Making External References
Exporting objects to a file
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Attaching and overlaying xrefs
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Altering xrefs
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Clipping xrefs
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Editing xrefs in place
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Removing xrefs
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15. Working with Layouts and Annotation
Creating a layout
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Configuring a viewport
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Locking viewports
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Freezing viewport layers
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Drawing a title block
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Creating annotative text styles
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Creating annotative dimension styles and objects
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Drawing and editing revision clouds
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16. Creating Output
Plotting from a layout and from model space
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Packaging your data with eTransmit
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Outputting DWFx files for sharing online
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Publishing multiple sheets
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