AutoCAD for Design and Drafting Professional Certification Prep 

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Application and drawing management
Assign and manage layer properties
Apply layer property overrides in viewports
Create and manage layer filters
Determine the origin of xref layers
Manage user coordinate systems
Modify objects using the Properties palette
Analyze and query values of geometric objects
Analyze quantities of blocks in a drawing
Use common tool palette interface behaviors
Customize content on the user interface
Perform drawing maintenance
Use the purge tools to manage content
Use the Drawing Recovery Manager
Practice Exercise: Manage layers and query objects
Practice Exercise: Manage drawing health
Challenge Exercise: Configure a paper space viewport and apply furniture

Design annotation and detailing
Create and manage annotation styles
Create and manage table styles
Create and manage drawing scales
Add and manage scales assigned to annotative objects
Create and modify annotations
Create and modify tables
Practice Exercise: Manage and create annotations
Challenge Exercise: Create annotation styles, apply annotation scales, and work with tables

Author and edit drawing content
Create, manage, and edit block definitions
Write blocks or objects to an external drawing
Access blocks and block libraries
Access and use the clipboard
Create arcs with different values
Create polylines from existing objects
Apply an offset to existing geometry
Define boundaries for creating hatches
Define and edit associative arrays
Access modify commands using grips
Edit geometry using multiple grips
Edit using dynamic input and multifunctional grips
Create and edit objects using dynamic input
Create and edit objects using object snaps
Use multiple coordinate entry methods
Practice Exercise: Create geometry and reuse design content
Practice Exercise: Draw with precision and edit with grips
Challenge Exercise: Edit a block definition

Configure and manage design output
Configure and apply named page setups
Create layout viewports
Manage layout viewports
Define and manage a sheet list
Configure an Electronic Transmittal package
Create a new sheet within a sheet set
Modify sheet and sheet set properties
Practice Exercise: Configure and manage design output

Collaboration
Collaborate and use shared files
Create and manage Traces
Compare objects between drawings
Manage xref types
Manage xref paths
Manage image and underlay frames
Create and manage PDF imports
Create and manage tables using data links
Display dynamic data using fields
Practice Exercise: Collaborate and work with external data

Course challenge

Course challenge: Create a new layout for a furniture plan

Course challenge: Create a new layout for a furniture plan