AutoCAD 2011: Tips, Tricks, and Industry Secrets

Shows AutoCAD users how to reduce the amount of time it takes to accomplish a task, increase profit margins, and more.In AutoCAD 2011: Tips, Tricks, and Industry Secrets, Jeff Bartels shows AutoCAD users how to become more efficient power users, reducing the amount of time it takes to accomplish a task, increasing profit margins, and strengthening marketplace competitiveness. The course covers everything from shortcuts used in geometry creation, to program customization, to real world solutions to common problems. Interface customization, block and reference management skills, and express tool usage are also covered. Exercise files are included with the course. Topics include: Creating macro enabled tools Using Auto Complete Disabling tool mode settings on the fly Moving and copying entities using Windows shortcuts Using the Calculator palette Formatting text Creating parent/child dimension styles Making dimensions easier to read Making global edits to attribute data and layer names Exchanging one block symbol for another Inserting content using drag and drop Navigating layer list using the keyboard Importing layouts from template files Consolidating backup files