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WHY DO YOU WANT TO LEARN AUTOCAD ? *Please add your answer here*

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WHY DO YOU WANT TO LEARN AUTOCAD ? *Please add your answer here*

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To draw & print architectural floor plans.

Ship Design – Currently for producing general arrangements, which are like architect’s drawings of many aspects of a ship and it’s layout.

Civil 3D for environmental engineering

Structural engineer’s drawings for multi story residential properties

Although most of my work is heading to Pro-E, I do all the drawings to repair older/broken steam turbines. It’s interesting work for sure

The only original parts I draw are hydraulic profiles and plant flow schematics which are just a bunch of arrows and lines, it requires no AutoCAD skills at all. There’s no one at my office to teach me. My more complicated files, where I copy and paste stuff in, are pretty on the surface, but a horrific mess of X-Ref errors, missing shapefile links, un-used layers that I don’t know how to delete, and are generally just ‘exploded’ until everything works. I’m trying to work on getting better at organizing. I’m very embarrassed whenever I have to send my DWG to someone else, because it so precariously held together!

Wiring diagrams, P&IDs, piping diagrams, store planning layouts, fixing topo maps I’m going to redraw in 3DS

Civil 3D for street design, parks, railroads. I work for a municipality

Architectural one off sketches. Engineering designs. Detailed mapping in planning. Loads of others. General drawing to do with maps or construction

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AutoCAD is a computer-aided drafting software program used to create blueprints for buildings, bridges and computer chips, among other things. Discover how AutoCAD is used by drafters and other professionals.

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9
Tips You Should
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Shortcut Key + Description

ALT+F11 | Displays the Visual Basic Editor (AutoCAD only)
ALT+F8 | Displays the Macros dialog box (AutoCAD only)
CTRL+F2 | Displays the Text window
CTRL+0 | Toggles Clean Screen
CTRL+1 | Toggles Properties palette
CTRL+2 | Toggles DesignCenter
CTRL+3 | Toggles the Tool Palettes window
CTRL+4 | Toggles Sheet Set Manager
CTRL+6 | Toggles dbConnect Manager (AutoCAD only)
CTRL+7 | Toggles Markup Set Manager
CTRL+8 | Toggles the QuickCalc palette
CTRL+9 | Toggles the Command Line window
CTRL+A | Selects all the objects in drawing that are not locked or frozen
CTRL+SHIFT+A | Toggles Groups
CTRL+B | Toggles Snap
CTRL+C | Copies objects to the Windows Clipboard
CTRL+SHIFT+C | Copies objects to the Windows Clipboard with Base Point
CTRL+D | Toggles Dynamic UCS (AutoCAD only)
CTRL+E | Cycles through isometric planes
CTRL+F | Toggles running object snaps
CTRL+G | Toggles Grid
CTRL+H | Toggles PICKSTYLE
CTRL+HOME | Moves focus to the Start tab
CTRL+SHIFT+H | Toggles the display of palettes with HIDEPALETTES and SHOWPALETTES
CTRL+I | Toggles the Coordinates display (AutoCAD only)
CTRL+SHIFT+I | Toggles Infer Constraints (AutoCAD only)
CTRL+J | Repeats last command
CTRL+K | Inserts a hyperlink
CTRL+L | Toggles Ortho mode
CTRL+SHIFT+L | Selects the previously selected objects
CTRL+M | Repeats last command
CTRL+N | Creates a new drawing
CTRL+O | Opens an existing drawing
CTRL+P | Plots the current drawing
CTRL+SHIFT+P | Toggles the Quick Properties interface
CTRL+Q | Quits the application
CTRL+R | Cycles through the viewports on the current layout
CTRL+S | Saves current drawing
CTRL+SHIFT+S | Displays up the Save As dialog box
CTRL+T | Toggles Tablet mode
CTRL+V | Pastes data from the Windows Clipboard
CTRL+SHIFT+V | Pastes data from the Windows Clipboard as a Block
CTRL+W | Toggles selection cycling
CTRL+X | Cuts objects from the current drawing to the Windows Clipboard
CTRL+Y | Cancels the preceding Undo action
CTRL+Z | Reverses the last action
CTRL+[ | Cancels current command
CTRL+\ | Cancels current command
CTRL+PAGE UP | Moves to the previous layout
CTRL+PAGE DOWN | Moves to the next layout tab
CTRL+TAB | Moves to the next file tab
F1 | Displays Help
F2 | Expands the Command Line history when the Command Line window is floating, or displays the Text window when the Command Line window is docked
F3 | Toggles OSNAP
F4 | Toggles 3DOSNAP (AutoCAD only) or Toggles TABMODE (AutoCAD LT only)
F5 | Toggles ISOPLANE
F6 | Toggles UCSDETECT (AutoCAD only)
F7 | Toggles GRIDMODE
F8 | Toggles ORTHOMODE
F9 | Toggles SNAPMODE
F10 | Toggles Polar Tracking
F11 | Toggles Object Snap Tracking
F12 | Toggles Dynamic Input
Shift+F1 | Subobject selection is not filtered (AutoCAD only)
Shift+F2 | Subobject selection is limited to vertices (AutoCAD only)
Shift+F3 | Subobject selection is limited to edges (AutoCAD only)
Shift+F4 | Subobject selection is limited to faces (AutoCAD only)
Shift+F5 | Subobject selection is limited to the solid history of an object (AutoCAD only)

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AutoCAD is a 2-D and 3-D computer-aided drafting software application used in architecture, construction and manufacturing to assist in the preparation of blueprints and other engineering plans. Professionals who use AutoCAD are often referred to as drafters.

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In this set of tutorials we'll learn how to use AutoCAD. We'll begin by getting familiar with the User Interface. We'll discuss how things are broken down into tabs, ribbons, and panels and we'll take a look at the 2D and 3D user interface and tools we have accessible to us.

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READ the notes to understand what is Drafting Modeling Techniques

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READ the notes to understand what is Drafting Modeling Techniques

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Part 2: AutoCAD 2012 Introduction & How to Draw a Line

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How to draw a more accurate line, length, angle and position. Useing the object snap feature to draw parallel and perpendicular lines.

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Auto Cad Tutorial Video For Beginners - Lessons - Tes Teach

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DRAW 1 LINE FIRST.AutoCAD Isometric Drawing Tutorial.AutoCAD Tutorial: Draw Circle With Base Point.Autocad Tips & Tricks - Speed up your drawing abilities.Autocad Customize Shortcut Keys.Learn AutoCAD AutoCAD Short Cut Commands with ACAD PGP.AutoCAD - Tutorial for Beginners [COMPLETE - 12mins!].Autocad Starter Course 2015 - Tutorial for beginners - First learn