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The AutoCAD® 2024: Beyond the Basics (Fundamentals – Part 2) guide is designed for those using AutoCAD® 2024 with a Windows operating system. This guide is not designed for the AutoCAD for Mac software.

The objective of AutoCAD 2024: Beyond the Basics (Fundamentals - Part 2) is to enable you to create, modify, and work with a 2D drawing in the AutoCAD software.

The AutoCAD 2024: Beyond the Basics (Fundamentals - Part 2) guide continues on from the topics covered in the AutoCAD 2024: Essentials (Fundamentals - Part 1) guide. It covers more sophisticated techniques that extend your mastery of the software. For example, here you go beyond the basic skill of using a template to understand the process of setting up a template, creating annotation styles, and how to work with external references.

You learn such skills as:

•  Using more advanced editing and construction techniques
•  Adding parametric constraints to objects
•  Creating local and global blocks
•  Setting up layers, styles, and templates
•  Attaching external references

The AutoCAD 2024: Beyond the Basics guide is not recommended for users that have completed the AutoCAD 2024: Fundamentals guide, as the Beyond the Basics guide makes up Part 2 of the Fundamentals guide.

Prerequisites

•  Access to the 2024.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide are not compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2023).
•  Knowledge of AutoCAD basics as taught in AutoCAD: Essentials (Fundamentals - Part 1), or equivalent experience.
•  A working knowledge of your operating system.