In AutoCAD 2011 New Features, instructor Jeff Bartels highlights productivity and creativity enhancing additions to the AutoCAD toolset. This course covers improved functions for selecting and creating geometry, updated modification tools for hatches and polylines, simplified parametric constraint tools, and the new dynamic surface modeling techniques for creating complex shapes. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
* Applying transparency
* Maintaining text readability within linetypes
* Automating geometric constraints
* Streamlining hatch creation
* Using control vertices to create splines
* Exploring the updated 3D workspace
* Creating surfaces using the Blend, Patch, or Network tools
* Trimming and extending surfaces
* Working with the new Materials Browser
* Customizing render materials

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