Introducing the AutoCAD Express Tools with Shaun Bryant

On May 19, 2021

Release date:2016, November 4

Author:Shaun Bryant

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Save time and become more productive when working in AutoCAD by using Express Tools. Join Shaun Bryant as he demonstrates how to implement Express Tools into your workflow, replacing formerly tedious, multistep tasks with faster shortcuts. He covers features for attributes, blocks, objects, and text, including his favorite Express Tool, Arc-Aligned Text. He also shows you how to use modification, layout, drawing, and dimension tools. This course goes beyond the familiar menus—Home, Insert, Annotate, Parametric, View, and Manage—to options that are often forgotten, so you can improve your use of AutoCAD.
Topics include:
Using Explode Attributes, Replace Block, and List Properties
Exporting and importing attributes
Converting block to XREF
Copying, extending, and trimming nested objects
Working with Arc-Aligned Text and Modify Text
Masking and unmasking text
Modifying using Stretch Multiple and Extended Clip
Changing layouts with Align Space, Synchronize Viewports, and Merge Layout
Using Super Hatch
Resetting text and modifying text
Importing and exporting dimension styles
Working with Xdata

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01 – Welcome
02 – What you should know before watching this course
03 – Using the exercise files
04 – Introducing the AutoCAD Express Tools
05 – Why use Express Tools
06 – Explode Attributes
07 – Replace Block
08 – List Properties
09 – Export Attributes
10 – Import Attributes
11 – Convert Block to XREF
12 – Copy Nested Objects
13 – Extend to Nested Objects
14 – Trim to Nested Objects
15 – Arc-Aligned Text
16 – Modify Text
17 – Convert to Mtext
18 – Auto Number
19 – Enclose in Object
20 – Remote Text
21 – Text Mask and Unmask Text
22 – Move_Copy_Rotate
23 – Stretch Multiple
24 – Extended Clip
25 – Align Space
26 – Synchronize Viewports
27 – Merge Layout
28 – List Viewport Scale
29 – Break-line Symbol
30 – Super Hatch
31 – Annotation Attachment
32 – Resetting text
33 – Importing and exporting dimension styles
34 – Command Aliases
35 – Attach Xdata
36 – List Object Xdata
37 – System Variables
38 – Extended Plan
39 – Adding linetypes
40 – Show URLs
41 – Change URLs
42 – Find and Replace URLs
43 – Next steps