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Properly managing a drawing is essential to being productive in AutoCAD. In this course, author Jeff Bartels concentrates on the Autodesk AutoCAD tools and features dedicated to organizing and editing geometry. The course covers making selections, creating and adjusting layers, identifying objects with hatch patterns, and scaling, exploding, and joining elements. It also includes lessons on creating fillets and chamfers, copying existing objects into rectangular or circular patterns, and accessing specialized tools that make measurements and calculations a lot easier.
Topics include:

    Adding and removing from selections
    Stretching elements
    Creating mirrored copies
    Leveraging grips
    Editing hatch patterns
    Using layers to organize a drawing
    Changing layer states
    Understanding the BYLAYER property
    Taking measurements
    Automating calculations with the Quick Calculator
    Constructing a multi-view part