Properly managing a drawing is essential to being productive in AutoCAD. In this

AutoCAD 2014 Essentials

course, author Jeff Bartels concentrates on the tools and features dedicated to organizing and editing geometry in AutoCAD. Learn how to make selections, create and adjust layers, emphasize objects using hatch patterns, and scale, explode, and join elements. The course also includes lessons on creating fillets and chamfers, copying existing objects into rectangular or circular patterns, and accessing specialized tools that make measurements and calculations a lot easier. At the end, a challenge drawing is provided to test your skills.

Topics include:

Adding and removing from selections

Stretching elements

Creating mirrored copies

Leveraging grips

Editing hatch patterns

Using layers to organize a drawing

Changing layer states

Understanding the BYLAYER property

Taking measurements

Automating calculations with the Quick Calculator

Constructing a multi-view part