AutoCAD web app: Taking Your Drawings Online

Course details

Learn how to work on your AutoCAD designs in the AutoCAD web app. Find out how to access the power of AutoCAD from your browser to create, edit, view, and annotate drawings from any device. Instructor Shaun Bryant shows how to log in, create new drawings, upload existing drawings to the cloud, and start editing your designs online. He shows how to modify objects, adjust settings, draft with commands, and use keyboard shortcuts—all the functions you would expect to find in the desktop program—while taking advantage of the new flexible, web-based workflow. Since this new app is designed to integrate with AutoCAD 2019, Shaun also shows how to take the same files back and forth between the programs, giving you the best of both worlds: portability and power.

Learning objectives
Logging into the AutoCAD web app
Creating and opening drawings
Using views and properties
Creating and editing layers
Adjusting settings
Drafting with commands
Editing objects
Annotating drawings
Keyboard shortcuts
Savings drawings in the AutoCAD web app

Concepts

Introduction

Take your AutoCAD drawings online in the AutoCAD web app
What you should know before watching this course
Using the exercise files
The new AutoCAD 2019 interface
The new AutoCAD web app command line

Introducing AutoCAD Web

Your Autodesk account in AutoCAD 2019
Saving from AutoCAD desktop to the cloud
Logging into and using the AutoCAD web app

The Home Screen

The folder structure and creating a new folder
Uploading a new drawing
Starting a new AutoCAD web drawing

Opening an Existing Drawing from the Cloud

Locating and opening your drawing in the cloud
The fonts display warning and Simplex
Zooming in and out in your drawing

Using Views in the AutoCAD web app

Using modelspace and the layout tabs
The WYSIWYG display in your Layout tabs

Using Properties in the AutoCAD web app

Selecting an object
Checking and changing the properties of an object

Using Layers in the AutoCAD web app

Locking a layer
Changing layer visibility
Changing layer color
Creating a new layer
Setting the current drafting layer

Using Settings in the AutoCAD web app

Polar tracking and setting increments
Setting object snaps
Using object snaps and snap overrides in your drawing
Setting your drawing units
Changing your zoom direction in the Navigation panel

Drafting in the AutoCAD web app

Understand changes to the Draw tab
The LINE command
The POLYLINE command
The CIRCLE command
The ARC command
The RECTANGLE command

Modifying Drawings in the AutoCAD web app

Understand changes to the Modify tab
The MOVE command
Adding corners to objects with the FILLET (0 radius) command
Extending and trimming objects
Mirroring and copying objects
Offsetting objects
Rotating objects
Scaling objects
Matching object properties

Annotating Drawings in the AutoCAD web app

Understand changes to the Annotation tab
Annotation in AutoCAD web (Simplex only)
Adding MTEXT to your drawings
Adding dimensions to your drawings
Adding multileaders
Working with revision clouds

View Controls and Keyboard Entry in the AutoCAD web app

Using Undo and Redo
Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V)
Zoom Extents and Zoom Window

Saving Your Drawing to the Cloud in the AutoCAD web app

Using the Save button to cache your drawing
Opening your saved drawing from the AutoCAD web home screen

Using the New Command Line

The new command line
Typing commands
Using submenus in commands

Conclusion

Next steps