Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021 [electronic resource] : A No-Nonsense, Beginner's Guide to Drafting and 3D Modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to AutoCAD
AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD for Macintosh
Understanding the user interface
The application button
The quick access toolbar
The info bar
The ribbon area
The file tabs
The ViewCube and navigation bar
The selection cursor
The command line/palette
The user coordinate system
The layout tabs
The status bar toggles
Navigating in AutoCAD
Selecting and panning
Zooming in and out
Making selections

A simple selection
The selection window
The crossing window
The ""window lasso"" selection
The ""crossing lasso"" selection
Setting units and limits
Setting units
Setting limits
Saving settings as a template
Saving a drawing file as DWG
Summary
Chapter 2: Basic Drawing Tools
Understanding the coordinate system
Cartesian coordinates
Polar coordinates
Using the Line command
Making lines with direct distance entry
Making lines using absolute coordinates
Using polar coordinates
Using relative coordinates

Making a drawing without coordinate values
The status bar modes
Using Dynamic Input
Using ortho mode
Using polar tracking
Making a circle
Center, radius, and diameter
2-Point and 3-Point
Tan, Tan, Radius and Tan, Tan, Tan
Making an arc
Start, Center, End
Start, End, Radius
Center, Start, End
Making a rectangle
Making a rectangle using absolute coordinates
Making a rectangle using relative coordinates
Making a rectangle with Dynamic Input
Making a polygon
Inscribed and circumscribed polygons
Making polygons
The Move and Copy commands

The Rotate command
Simple Rotate
Rotate with Reference
The Fillet command
The Trim command
The Extend command
Summary
Chapter 3: Learning about Modify Commands
Using Object Snaps
The Endpoint and Midpoint snaps
The Center snap
The Geometric Center snap
The Node snap
The Quadrant snap
The Intersection snap
The Extension snap
The Perpendicular snap
The Tangent snap
The Nearest snap
The Parallel snap
The Object Snap override
Object Snap tracking
Making an ellipse
The Construction Line command
The revision cloud tool

The Rectangular revision cloud tool
The Polygonal revision cloud tool
The Freehand revision cloud tool
Working with regions
Making regions
Point and point style
Working with Spline
Spline fit
Spline CV
More Modify commands
The Mirror command
The Offset command
The Scale command
Making a copy of the scaled object
Scale with a reference
The Chamfer command
Making a Chamfer using an angle
Making Chamfers on multiple vertices
The Join command
The Explode command
The Stretch command
Summary