01. Getting Started

1. What You Will Learn
2. About The Author
3. Introduction To AutoCAD 2015
4. Installing AutoCAD 2015
5. Turning On AutoCAD For The First Time
6. A Quick Run Through of AutoCAD 2015
7. How To Access Your Working Files

02. New Features In AutoCAD 2015

1. The New Tab
2. User Interaction Changes
3. Improved Graphics And Interaction Enhancements
4. Model Space Viewports, Layer Sort, And Isometrics
5. Multi-line Text Enhancements

03. Interfacing With AutoCAD 2015

1. AutoCAD Drawing Areas - The Crosshairs And Your Mouse
2. Using The Application Menu And The QAT
3. Interfacing With The Ribbon
4. Taking Advantage Of The Command Line, Dynamic Input And Auto Complete
5. Toolbars And The Menubar
6. File Tabs
7. Pallets And Short Cut Menus
8. Using Function Keys And Command Aliases
9. Workspaces
10. The Status Bar - A Busy Place
11. An Introduction To Model And Paper Space
12. Quick Access To Your Drawings Drawings

04. Basic Operations

1. You Have To Start Somewhere
2. Quitting CAD - Save Early, Save Often
3. Object Selection
4. Advanced Operation Techniques
5. How AutoCAD Interprets Units
6. Working With Specific Units
7. The User Coordinate System
8. Working With The Coordinate System
9. Using The Grid System With The Snap Feature
10. Pan
11. Zoom
12. Basic Operations - Project

05. Drawing And Drafting Tools

1. Lines - You Will Use Them Everywhere
2. Polylines And Their Uses
3. Circles
4. Arcs
5. Polygons
6. Rectangles And Ellipses
7. Points And Their Styles
8. Methods To Create Precise Objects
9. Drawing And Drafting Tools - Project

06. Editing Tools

1. Erase
2. Delete Duplicates
3. The Move And Copy Commands
4. Rotating Objects
5. Scaling Objects
6. Stretching Objects
7. Offset
8. Mirror
9. Trim And Extend Lines
10. Fillet And Chamfer
11. Rectangular Array
12. Polar Array
13. Pathway Array
14. Copy Array
15. Object Properties
16. Editing Tools - Project

07. Utilities - Tools To Keep You In The Know

1. Listing Objects
2. Measuring Tools
3. Purging Unused Items
4. Undo - The Most Important Command
5. Utilities Project

08. Precision Tools - Tricks To Help You Draw Accurately

1. OSNAP
2. ORTHO
3. Grips

09. Using Layers

1. Layer Properties
2. The Layer Manager
3. Freeze, Thaw, On, Off And Lock
4. Creating And Editing Layers
5. Using Layers To Control
6. Layers - Project

10. Annotations

1. Dimensions
2. Dimension Styles - Drill Down In Dim Town
3. Advanced Dimension Operations
4. Advanced Dimensioning Tools And Settings
5. Multileaders
6. Single Line Text
7. Multi Line Text
8. Multi Line Text Techniques
9. Wipeouts - Hiding What You Do Not Want To See
10. Text Styles
11. Tables
12. Hatching
13. Annotations - Project

11. Blocks

1. What Is A Block?
2. Creating Blocks
3. Inserting Blocks And Using Them
4. Editing Blocks
5. Attributed Blocks
6. The Effect Of Exploding Blocks
7. Introduction To Dynamic Blocks
8. Blocks - Project

12. Model And Paper Space

1. The Difference Between Model And Paper Space
2. What Belongs Where?
3. Viewports
13. Plot And Publish

1. Plotting
2. Page Set Up
3. Publish
4. Export Your File
5. Plot And Publish - Project
14. Final Project

1. Drawing The Building - Part 1
2. Drawing The Building - Part 2
3. Drawing The Building - Part 3
4. Decoration - Part 1
5. Decoration - Part 2
6. Decoration - Part 3
7. Annotation - Part 1
8. Annotation - Part 2
15. Conclusion

1. Wrap-Up
Working Files

01. Introduction

1. Welcome
2. Using the exercise files

02. Exploring the User Interface

1. Exploring the user interface
2. Using the ribbon
3. Changing workspaces
4. Customizing the user interface
5. Editing command aliases
6. Accessing help

03. Managing Files and Options

1. Opening, saving, and closing files
2. Selecting drawing units
3. Converting drawings to new units
4. Editing program and drawing options
5. Using and creating templates

04. Navigating Drawings

1. Using commands and panning a drawing
2. Using the Zoom command to navigate
3. Understanding model and paper spaces
4. Saving and restoring views

05. Drawing Objects

1. Lines
2. Circles
3. Arcs
4. Ellipses
5. Splines
6. Polylines
7. Rectangles and polygons
8. Points and donuts

06. Modifying Objects

1. Selecting objects
2. Moving and copying
3. Rotating and scaling
4. Arraying objects
5. Offsetting and mirroring
6. Stretching and lengthening
7. Trimming and extending
8. Breaking and joining
9. Editing with grips
10. Creating boundaries and cleaning up
11. Performing Boolean operations on regions
12. Using the fillet, chamfer, and blend commands
13. Dividing and measuring
14. Editing polylines and splines

07. Drawing Accurately

1. Using Grid and Snap
2. Making isometric drawings
3. Understanding coordinate systems
4. Using polar tracking
5. Enabling the heads-up display
6. Working with object snaps
7. Using the From command
8. Employing object-snap tracking
9. Creating coordinate systems of your own

08. Practice Drawing Projects

1. Engineering project: Part drawing
2. Architectural project: Attaching a sketch
3. Architectural project: Drawing walls
4. Architectural project: Cutting openings
5. Architectural project: Drawing doors
6. Architectural project: Adding details

09. Hatching and Creating Gradients

1. Using the Hatch command
2. Creating hatch patterns by selecting objects
3. Creating gradients
4. Editing hatch boundaries

10. Writing

1. Creating text styles
2. Writing single-line text
3. Writing multiline text
4. Aligning text objects

11. Dimensioning

1. Measuring distances and areas
2. Making dimension objects
3. Editing existing dimensions
4. Editing a dimension style
5. Creating dimension substyles
6. Making dimension overrides
7. Creating multileaders

12. Managing Object and Layer Properties

1. Hiding and isolating objects
2. Editing object properties
3. Changing linetype scale
4. Creating layers
5. Using the Layer dropdown menu
6. Accessing specialized layer tools
7. Saving and restoring layer states
8. Altering object display order

13. Reusing Content

1. Working with groups
2. Creating and inserting blocks
3. Using ByLayer and ByBlock object properties
4. Redefining blocks
5. Exploding objects with Explode and Xplode
6. Designing a dynamic block
7. Accessing external block content
8. Redefining local blocks with global blocks

14. Defining Attributes and Configuring Tables

1. Designing a symbol with text placeholders
2. Designing attribute definitions
3. Defining a block with attributes
4. Creating a table
5. Styling a table's title text
6. Adding fields to tables

15. Making External References

1. Exporting objects to a file
2. Attaching and overlaying xrefs
3. Altering xrefs
4. Clipping xrefs
5. Editing xrefs in place
6. Removing xrefs

16. Working with Layouts and Annotation

1. Creating a layout
2. Configuring a viewport
3. Locking viewports
4. Freezing viewport layers
5. Drawing a title block
6. Creating annotative text styles
7. Creating annotative dimension styles and objects

17. Creating Output

1. Plotting from a layout and from model space
2. Packaging your data with eTransmit
3. Outputting DWFx files for sharing online
4. Publishing multiple sheets

18. Conclusion
Exercice File