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Demo – AutoCAD Planting Plans & Schedules II

Introduction

The following series of videos will show you to create reusable content, hatches, text, and plot or export your work to a PDF.

Figure 1: Example planting plan, plant schedule.

AutoCAD 05: Reusing content

In this series of videos, you will learn, how to create reusable content (e.g., blocks). Specific skills include:

  • Create and insert block
  • Explode
  • Redefine block definitions
  • WBLOCK
  • Dynamic block
  • Bcount

AutoCAD 06: Hatching

In this series of videos, you will learn, how to use the hatch command to hatch objects. Specific skills include:

  • Hatches

AutoCAD 07: Text

In this series of videos, you will learn, how to insert text. Specific skills include:

  • Text

Attributes and tables

In this series of videos, you will learn, how to insert an excel table into AutoCAD. Specific skills include:

  • Excel to CAD

Page setup, exporting, and plotting

In this series of videos, you will learn, how setup your drawing for plotting or exporting a PDF. Specific skills include:

  • Plot scale
  • Plot styles
  • Exporting as a PDF