Looking for a full-featured CAD program that runs on your Mac? Meet AutoCAD for Mac, a leading CAD application that runs natively on Apple computers. In this course, Jim LaPier focuses on the basics of AutoCAD for Mac, helping you get acquainted with the interface, file management, and how to best leverage the application's toolset.

He shows how to create and modify geometry to suit your needs, work with layers, add dimensions and annotations, and plot your drawings. Plus, Jim covers the basics of 3D modeling in AutoCAD for Mac.

Instructor •. Jim LaPier is a consultant and designer at IMPACT Designs, LLC. Jim has worked with AutoCAD for 15 years in varying disciplines, including commercial and residential architectural design, mechanical engineering, materials handling, and telecommunications. Mac os sierra update. He is skilled in customization, efficiency, and speed, as well as being adept in information technology. He also worked as a genius at an Apple Retail Store, and registered as a certified Apple technician.

Jim combines paper and pencil drafting knowledge with his love of cutting edge technology, both Mac and PC-based. By: Katherine Ming course • 1h 37m 1s • 2,923 viewers • Course Transcript - [Instructor] There comes a time in drafting where you need to display the material of an object, whether it's siding on an architectural elevation, or the materials of an assembly section, like steel or aluminum. Instead of drawing patterns of lines singularly, AutoCAD allows us to fill closed areas with a singular hatch pattern. I'll find the hatch tool here under the hatch tool set and we're immediately presented with the hatch visor and the option to pick an internal point. Think of this as pouring a bucket of paint into an enclosed area. The pattern will spread to fill the area that you select, so the area must be completely closed. I'm going to click inside the area here and I'm immediately given a visual preview of the pattern.

I can move up to the hatch visor and select the pattern that I want to use just by clicking on the swatch here. There's a rather extensive list of different hatch patterns that come shipped with AutoCAD for Mac. Fortunately, if I know the pattern I'm • Practice while you learn with exercise files. Watch this course anytime, anywhere.

Course Contents • Introduction Introduction • • • • 1. The Interface 1. The Interface • • • • • • • • • • 2. File Management 2. File Management • • • • • • • 3. Navigation 3. Navigation • • • • • 4.

Basic Geometry 4. Basic Geometry • • • • • • • • • • • • 5.

PATGEN is a simple hatch pattern generator which allows the creation of new patterns without any knowledge of the description language used in AutoCAD PAT files. The user simply draws the pattern using AutoCAD entities, selects these entities, enters.

Geometry Tools 5. Geometry Tools • • • • • • • 6.

Modifying Geometry 6. Modifying Geometry • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 7. Layers • • • • • • • 8.

Advanced Objects 8. Advanced Objects • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9. Layouts • • • • • • 10. Annotations 10. Annotations • • • • • • • • • • • • 11. Plotting and Sharing 11.

Plotting and Sharing • • • • • • 12. 3D Basics 12. 3D Basics • • • • Conclusion Conclusion •.

By James Philip I was asked recently to create a Flemish bond hatch pattern. My immediate response was that if you search the internet you will find one that already exists and I did. See Fig 1: - Fig 1 I was then told that they wanted specific brick sizes, so I replied that you can just edit the file to represent the brick size you require. Below is an explanation of how I did it.

The file that I found had brick sizes of 215 x 65 and 102.5 x 65 and a 10mm mortar thickness. To edit the *.pat, you open it in Notepad. Can save file in word 2011 for mac. The file looks like this: - *HBFLEMET,Brickworkflemishbond Free patterns from 0,0,10,0,150,215,-122.5 0,0,75,0,150,215,-122.5 0,225,10,0,150,102.5,-235 0,225,75,0,150,102.5,-235 90,0,10,150,337.5,65,-85 90,215,10,150,337.5,65,-85 90,225,10,150,337.5,65,-85 90,327.5,10,150,337.5,65,-85 0,168.8,85,0,150,215,-122.5 0,168.8,150,0,150,215,-122.5 90,168.8,85,150,337.5,65,-85 90,46.3,85,150,337.5,65,-85 0,56.3,85,0,150,102.5,-235 0,56.3,150,0,150,102.5,-235 90,56.3,85,150,337.5,65,-85 90,158.8,85,150,337.5,65,-85 Each line of code represents a line in the hatch pattern.