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Chapters 1 - 17
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0          SofTutor Help (Watch this Section)
0.1          Getting Started with SofTutor
0.2          Switching Between Applications and SofTutor

1          Getting Started in AutoCAD (Try to Follow Along with Chapt. 1-17)
1.1          Introduction
1.1.1         Getting Started with Workspaces
1.1.2         Mouse Button Configuration
1.1.3         Menus & Tool Bars
1.2          Help
1.3          Getting Started with Drawing
1.3.1         Application Menu
1.3.2         Workspaces
1.3.3         Using your own Template
1.3.4         Starting a New Drawing
1.3.5         Opening an Existing Drawing
1.4          Working with Mulitiple Drawings
1.4.1         Opening a Selection of Multiple Files
1.4.2         Partial Open Option
1.4.3         Drawing Between Multiple Files
1.4.4         Working with Multiple Files
1.5          Setup
1.5.1         Setup Wizard
1.5.2         Unit Setup
1.6          Drawing Limits
1.7          Creating and Setting up Layers
1.7.1         Layers Overview
1.7.2         Layer Previous Command
1.7.3         Layer Properties
1.8          Tool Palettes
1.9          Revcloud
1.10        Toolbars
1.11        Draw Tools
           
2          AutoCAD Interface
2.1          Introduction to the AutoCAD Interface
2.1.1         Interface Overview
2.1.2         Command Window
2.1.2.1        Command Window Overview
2.1.2.2        Command Window Positioning
2.1.2.3        Multiple Viewports in Model Space
2.1.3         Pulldowns
2.1.4         Popup Menus
2.1.5         View Cube
2.1.6         Ribbon
2.1.7         UCS And Screen
2.1.8         Cursor Modes And Apertures
2.2          Pulldown Menu
2.2.1         Pulldown Menu Overview
2.2.2         Draw and Modify Pulldowns
2.2.3         Format Pulldown
2.2.4         Tools Pulldown
2.3          Function Keys (F1-F12)
2.4          Status Bar
2.4.1         Status Bar Buttons
2.4.2         Quick Properties
2.4.3         LWT ( Line Weight ) Button
2.5          Creating and Using Layouts
2.6          Options Settings
2.6.1         File Options
2.6.2         Creating a Profile of Selected Options
2.7          AutoCAD Design Center
           
3          Mouse Button Options
3.1          Right Mouse Button as Enter
3.2          Scroll Wheel
           
4          Windowing
4.1          Dynamic Zoom and Pan
4.2          REGEN
           
5          Coordinates
5.1          Absolute Coordinate Value
5.2          Relative Input Value/Polar
           
6          Object Snaps
6.1          General Osnap Settings Explained
6.2          End Point Snaps
6.3          Midpoint Snap
6.4          Center Snap
6.5          Intersection Snap
6.6          Apparent Intersection
6.7          Perpendicular Snap
6.8          Tangent Snap
6.9          Nearest Snap
6.10        Quadrant Snap
6.11        OSnap Tracking
6.11.1       OSnap Tracking
6.11.2       OSnap Tracking Options
           
7          Drawing Tools
7.1          Lines
7.1.1         Line Command
7.1.2         Construction Lines
7.2          Circles
7.2.1         Circles Overview
7.2.2         Circle By Center
7.2.3         Circle By Diameter
7.2.4         Circle By Two Points
7.2.5         Circle By Three Points
7.2.6         Circle By Tangent, Tangent, Radius
7.2.7         Circle By Tangent, Tangent, Tangent
7.3          Arcs
7.3.1         Arcs Overview
7.3.2         Arc By Three Points
7.3.3         Arc By Start, Center, End
7.3.4         Arc By Start, Center, Angle
7.3.5         Arc By Start, Center, Length
7.3.6         Arc By Start, End, Angle
7.3.7         Arc By Start, End, Direction
7.3.8         Arc By Start, End, Radius
7.3.9         Arc By Center, Start, End
7.3.10       Arc By Center, Start, Angle
7.3.11       Arc By Center, Start, Length
7.3.12       Arc Continuous
7.4          Polygon Command
7.5          Rectangle Command
8          Selection Modes:Window and Crossing
8.1          Selection
8.2          Grips
8.2.1         Grips Overview
8.2.2         Grips - Multi Selecting with Crossing
8.2.3         Grips - Multi Selecting with Window

9          Modify Commands
9.1          Move Commands
9.2          Moving with Alignment
9.3          Copy Command
9.4          Rotate Command
9.5          Scale  Command
9.6          Stretch  Command
9.7          Lengthen  Command
9.8          Trim Command
9.9          Extend Command
9.10        Break Command
9.11        Chamfer Command and Options
9.11.1       Chamfer - Distance, Polyline and Trim Options
9.11.2       Chamfer - Angle Option
9.11.3       Chamfer Command - No Trim Option
9.11.4       Chamfer Command - Method Option
9.12        Fillet Command
9.13        Explode Command
9.14        PEDIT Command
9.15        Array Command
9.16        Offset Command
9.17        Erase Command
9.18        Mirror Command

10         Properties Dialog Box
10.1        Changing the Properties of an Object
10.2        Matching the Properties of an Object
10.3        Changing Lineweight of an Object
10.4        Select Similar
           
11         Inquiry Tools
11.1        Distance Command
11.2        Area Command
11.3        List Command
11.4        ID Point Command
11.5        Time Command
11.6        Status Command
11.7        Set Variable Command
           
12         Blocks
12.1        Creating a Block
12.2        Creating a WBlock
12.3        Attributes
           
13         Referencing Files
13.1        XRefs
13.2        XRef Image
13.3        XClip
13.4        Refedit Command for Editing Reference Files
           
14         Working with Images
14.1        Raster Images
14.2        Raster Tools
           
15         Annotation
15.1        Text
15.1.1       Text and Text Styles
15.1.2       Single Line Text
15.1.3       Multiline Text
15.1.4       Editing Text
15.1.5       Importing Text
15.1.6       Spell Check
15.2        Dimensioning
15.2.1       Setting up Dimension Styles
15.2.2       Editing  Dimensions
15.3.3       Associative Dimensioning Overview
15.3.4       Reassociate or Disassociate Dimensions
15.3.5       Annotative Dimension
           
16         Drawing Lab
16.1        Setup file with Border Sheet, Create a file
16.2        Hatching
           
17         Miscellaneous
17.1        Clean Screen
17.2        Closing Multiple Files
17.3        Quick Drawing Process