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- Keep the drawing light. Remove duplicate objects, unused styles, proxy geometry, and oversized imported details before adding anything to a live project.
- Document the source logic. Record why the detail, tool, or precedent is useful so the next designer can understand the decision quickly.
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This video is from a new course on Lynda for Windows users to get acquainted with the new Mac interface. See my post above. It’s helped me learn it from a beginner’s perspective with the Mac software, though I would like to see some more in depth courses.
Learning with this course now, very good stuff for a new user to AutoCAD period. Although, are there anymore plans for Mac users to get a bit more in depth with basic commands and navigation? It seems that occasionally the instructor will use a command in assumption that the viewer already knows how or why. I have to pause and try to find where he is coming from with a couple of things.
I used Lynda years ago to learn how to use Final Cut Pro, and the tutorials were fantastic, and I would like to be able to use your site to learn Autocad. Only thing is, I am using Autocad Mac 2011, not autocad windows. Is the autocad 2011 software for windows the same as the mac version to use?
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