How to Select a Text Style
Delete a Text Style
Change Effects of a Text Style
Divide Command
Measure Command
Exercises
Lesson 26
Serious Business
Model and Layout Options
Model and Layout tabs
Viewports
Why Layouts are Useful
How to Reach Into a Viewport
Pan
How to Lock a Viewport
How to Create a Page Setup
Using the Layout
How to Plot from the Layout
Annotative Property
Exercises
Lesson 27
Creating Scaled Drawings
Adjusting the Viewport Scale
Annotative Objects
Paper Space Dimensioning
Exercises
Lesson 28
Assigning Multiple Annotative Scales
How to Remove an Annotative Scale
Annotative Hatch
Exercises
Lesson 29
Blocks
Inserting Blocks
Re-Defining a Block
Purge Unwanted and Unused Blocks
Multileader and Blocks
Collect Multileader
Exercises
Lesson 30
Text – Arc Aligned
Text – Modify Text
Text – Convert to MText and Auto Number
Text – Enclose an Object
Draw – Break-Line Symbol
Tools – Command Aliases
Creating a Group
A360 Drive
How to Save a File to A360 Drive
How to Open a File from A360 Drive
How to Upload a Document to A360 Drive
How to Delete an Uploaded Document
How to Download from A360 Drive
Share Design Review
Import a PDF file into AutoCAD
Exercises
A Add a Printer / Plotter
B Metric Conversion Factors
C Dynamic Input
D Command Line Enhancements
E Frequently Asked Questions
Index
Final Notes about AutoCAD®
BeginningAutoCAD®2017
EXERCISE WORKBOOK
Beginning AutoCAD® 2017, Exercise Workbook is designed for classroom instruction or self-study. It is suitable for both Inch and Metric users. There are 30 lessons. Each lesson starts with step-by-step instructions followed by exercises designed for practicing the commands you learned within that lesson.
You may find the order of instruction in this workbook somewhat different from most textbooks. The approach I take is to familiarize you with the drawing commands first. After you are comfortable with the drawing commands, you will be taught to create your own setup drawings. This method is accomplished by supplying you with preset drawings, “inch-helper.dwg” and “metric-helper.dwg.” These drawings are ready for you to open and use. For the first 8 lessons you should not worry about settings, you just draw.
How to get the supplied drawings listed above?
The file “workbook-helper.zip” should be downloaded from our website:
http://new.industrialpress.com/ext/downloads/acad/workbook-helper.zip
Enter the address into your web browser and the download will start automatically. Once the file has been downloaded you can unzip it to extract both drawing files.
Printing
The exercises in the workbook have been designed to be printed on any 8-1/2” × 11” (letter size) or 210mm × 297mm (A4 size) paper. You will be able to print your exercises and view your results as you progress through the lessons. If you would like to configure a large format printer refer to Appendix-A to “Add a Printer / Plotter.”
