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AutoCAD Upgrade Features

With Multimedia Training CDs from AGT

 

This set of tutorials is intented for AutoCAD users who have upgraded, or are planning to upgrade to any version of AutoCAD from 2004 through 2009. If you've just upgraded your copy of AutoCAD, then this training series is for you!

 

Note: If you aready have this training series and only need AutoCAD 2009, it is available separately. To order it, click on the Price list button on the left.

 

Lesson Contents
  • AutoCAD 2009 (see also)
    • Introduction and Overview
      • User interface changes (there are many)
      • Action recorder
      • Layer enhancements
      • New visualization tools
      • Misc. enhancements
    • The Menu Browser
      • New color schemes
      • No more menu bar?
      • The menu browser
      • Menu search features
      • Recent actions list
    • The Quick-Access Toolbar
      • Introducing "Quick Properties"
      • Configuring the Quick Access toolbar
      • Status bar - text or icons?
    • Quick-View Layouts and Drawings
      • Quick view layouts
      • Quick view drawings
      • More status bar enhancements
    • The Ribbon
      • The Ribbon replaces the dashboard
      • Ribbon options including docking
      • Editing and configuring the ribbon
    • The Action Recorder
      • Create Macros of AutoCAD commands
      • Customizing a macro sequence
      • Editing macros
    • Layer Management Enhancements
      • Many new layer enhancements
    • The Show Motion Tool
      • Create screen playbacks
      • Create custom transitions
    • The View Cube
      • New 3D navigational tool
      • Configuration and customization
    • The Steering Wheel
      • New navigational tools
      • Mini-wheels
    • Steering Wheel Settings
      • Steering wheel options and settings
    • The "Tour Building" Tool
      • Creating a walk-through with this new tool
    • Various New Features
      • Controlling hidden messages
      • New preview feature for arrays
      • Find and replace block attributes
      • XREF clipping with grips
      • Exporting layout tabs
    • Summary and review

 

  • AutoCAD 2008
    • Introduction
    • New Setup Wizard
    • User interface enhancements
      • Workspaces
      • Dashboard
      • Tool Palettes
    • Drawing Management
      • New Microstation DGN support
      • DWF enhancements
      • XREF enhancements
    • Enhancements to Layout tab and Layers
      • Renaming, reording, and copyng layout tabs now much easier
      • Layouts, Sheet sets, and Publish
      • Layer manager enhancements
      • Freeze layers in viewports
      • Layer overrides for viewports (nice!)
      • Additional layer enhancements
    • Annotative Scaling (totally new feature)
      • Automaitcally rescale text, dimensions, attributes, blocks and more.
    • Dimension Enhancements
      • Multi-leaders (totally new feature)
        • Creating multi-leaders
        • Aligning leaders
        • Multi-leader style manager
        • Collecting several leaders into a single muli-leader
        • more...
      • Breaking a dimension (new feature)
      • Dashboard panel for dim commands
      • Creating a "jogged" dimension (new)
      • Radius labelling enhancements
    • MTEXT Enhancements
      • New MTEXT control panel
      • Creating linked columns of text (totally new feature)
        • Text can automatically flow to new columns.
        • Setting column properties
        • Converting multiple columns back to a single column
      • New MTEXT paragraph features
      • Vastly improved spell checker
    • Tables Enhancements
      • Grips enhancements
      • Column enhancements
      • Cell styles
      • Bi-directional link to data in an Excel spreadsheet
      • Extracting data to a table
      • The new table break feature - Creates multiple columns of tables (just like the new multi-column text feature)

 

  • AutoCAD 2007
    • Introduction and overview
      • System requirements and compatibilities
      • New dwg drawing format
      • Startup dialogs
    • The Dashboard
    • 3D Modeling & 3D Objects
      • Using Visual Styles to control 3D appearance
      • Using the Geographic Location command to configure shadows
      • The new POLYSOLID and PYRAMID commands
      • ConvToSurf, Planesurf and Thicken
    • Editing 3D Objects
      • 3D Grips
      • PressPull
      • SectionPlane
      • Slice
      • Xedges
    • Viewing 3D Objects
      • 3DOrbit command
      • 3DMove and 3DRotate commands
      • Camera command
      • Flatshot
      • Creating animations
    • DWF Features (significant enhancements)
      • Inserting a DWF underlay
      • Adjusting the appearance of a DWF file
      • Snapping and clipping a DWF file
      • Sharing 3D DWF files with clients and others
    • Other new & enhanced commands
      • Hiding layout tabs
      • Docking and auto-hiding tool palettes
      • Scroll bar changes
      • Grid command changes
      • The new CleanScreen icon
    • Changed or removed commands
      • Layer command changes
      • Chspace command
      • Drawing recovering changes
      • Field command enhancements
      • Table format enhancements
    • Review and summary
  • AutoCAD 2006
    • Introduction
    • Workspace, CUI & menus
      • Creating and customizing workspaces
      • Using the new CUI to create custom menus and toolbars
    • New commands and enhancements
      • Dynamic input
      • Hatching enhancements
      • MTEXT Improvements
      • The new calculator
      • Drawing recovery manager
      • more...
    • New Dimension features and enhancements
    • Dynamic Blocks
      • Creating dynamic blocks
      • Inserting and using a dynamic block
      • Creating an action and lookup table for a dyanmic block

 

  • AutoCAD 2005
    • Introduction
    • Migration tools
    • The new Layer Manager
    • Tool palette enhancements
    • Drawing tools enhancements
      • MTEXT enhancements
      • Hatching enhancements
    • Tables
      • Overview
      • Creating, editing and using Tables
      • Formatting tables
    • Text fields
      • Overview
      • Inserting and using text fields
    • Productivity Tools
      • Maximize viewport
      • Object snap
      • Object zoom
      • Borrowing a license with the license manager
      • more...
    • Sheet sets
      • Creating and Editing
      • Using
    • Plotting
      • New changes in the redisigned plotting dialog
    • Survey Features
      • New features in Land Desktop and Survey 2005
      • Carlson Connect
      • Survey Toolspace
    • Review

 

  • AutoCAD 2004
    • Introduction
    • Network installation & enhancements
      • CD browser
      • Communications Center
      • License borrowing
      • Timeout
    • File operations
      • Password protection
      • Reference file management
      • more...
    • New & enhanced commands
      • Express tools
      • Undo/redo
      • Multi-line text
      • RevCloud
      • Display order
      • much more...
    • Design Center enhancements
      • Design Center Online
      • AutoCAD Today (gone)
      • I-Drop
    • Tool palettes
      • Overview
      • Creating
      • Modifying
      • Using
    • Fills and hatching
      • New true color options
      • Gradient fills
      • Shaded/rendered plots
    • Summary

Requirements: Pentium or faster computer, 1024 x 768 or higher video resolution, sound card and speakers, CD-ROM drive, 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended). Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, or Vista. (Windows 95 is not supported). Macromedia flash player 5.0 or higher.

 

Basic installation requires 10 MB hard drive space. Additional hard drive space is required if you choose to store the lesson files on your hard drive instead of running them from the CD-ROM. Note that lesson files can be stored on a network hard drive and shared among other registered users of the product. (A separate copy must be purchased for each computer that you wish to run the software on.)