AutoCAD Course Description

Introduction to AutoCAD and Tools
- AutoCAD
- User Interface, Increased Productivity of AutoCAD,
- Drawing Management, New Object Concepts,
- Drawing Sets, Plotting and Output
- II. STARTING NEW PROJECTS.
- Planning and Organizing Projects.
- Key Factors to Organize First. Setting Up Your Drawing

Drawing in AutoCAD.
- The Startup Dialog Box.
- Controlling Drawing Settings

Managing Your Drawing Projects.
- Understanding Sheets, Creating a Sheet Set and Importing Sheets,
- Creating New Sheets and Using Fields, Assembling Sheet Content,
- Creating Intelligent View Labels and Callouts,
- Placing View Labels and Callouts,
- Becoming a Power User of the Sheet Set Manager

Organizing a Drawing with Layers.
- The Layer Properties Manager, Consistent Layer Names,
- Controlling Object Properties, The ByLayer Property Value,
- Controlling Object Behavior with the Layer Properties Manager,
- Using Layer Filters, Grouping Your Layers, Using Layer States

Effective Linetypes and Lineweights Use.
- Working with Existing Linetypes, Assigning Linetypes,
- Creating and Using Custom Linetypes, Working with Lineweights

Using Coordinate Systems.
- Understanding Coordinate Systems, The UCS Command

Creating And Editing Drawings
- Obtaining Object Information,
- Gaining Entity Information, Using Inquiry Tools, Using Quick Select,
- Using Object Selection Filters, Querying for Areas in Blocks and Xrefs,
- Extracting Block and Attribute Data

Object Selection and Manipulation,
- Windows Functionality, Grip Editing, Changing an Object's Properties,
- Creating and Editing Groups, Exploding Compound Objects,
- Specialized Editing Commands,
- Lengthening and Shortening Objects. Aligning Objects,
- Renaming Named Objects, Deleting Named Objects

Creating and Using Blocks,
- Understanding Blocks, Creating Attributes in Blocks,
- Redefining Blocks with In-Place Reference Editing,
- Using Nested Blocks, Understanding Block Attributes,
- Attribute Tools, Managing Blocks Effectively

Working with External References.
- Working with Drawings Productively,
- Working with External References Productively,
- Managing Xrefs

Applications for DesignCenter.
- Understanding the AutoCAD DesignCenter Interface,
- Loading Content into DesignCenter, Adding Content to Drawings

Drawing Hatch Patterns.
- Creating Hatch Patterns Using BHATCH, Editing Hatch Patterns,
- Other Hatching Considerations, Customizing Hatch Patterns,
- Using BOUNDARY to Delineate Areas and Islands,
- Closing Gaps in Boundaries, Summary

Annotating, Dimensioning, And Plotting.
- Text and Mtext Annotation.
- Choosing the Correct Text Height, Choosing a Text Style,
- Single-Line Text, Multiline Text, Performing a Spelling Check,
- Looking at Additional Text Options, Text Property Modification

Applications for OLE Objects.
- Understanding Object Linking and Embedding,
- Importing Objects into AutoCAD Using OLE,
- Controlling OLE Object Properties,
- Working with Linked OLE Objects,
- Exporting AutoCAD Objects by Using OLE

Quick Dimensioning.
- Becoming Proficient at Dimensioning, Other Dimensions,
- Dimension Placement in the Drawing,
- Improving Productivity: Tips and Techniques,
- Increasing Productivity with Third-Party Programs

Intelligent Dimensions.
- Defining Dimension Styles, Modifying Dimensions, Associative Dimensioning

Paper Space Layouts.
- Using Layouts, Working with Viewports in a Layout

Productive Plotting.
- Configuring a Plotter, Defining Plot Styles, Creating Page Setups, Plotting from AutoCAD

Customizing and Advanced Concepts.
- Advanced Plotting
- Using DWF Files, Understanding the PUBLISH Command

Using Fields and Tables
- Understanding Fields, Understanding Tables

Customizing Without Programming
- Customizing AutoCAD Toolbars, Creating Custom Tools, Tool Palettes

Menu Customization
- Creating Command Aliases, Understanding AutoCAD Menu File Types,
- Understanding AutoCAD Menu File Sections,
- Creating Menu Macros, Using the Custom Menu

Implementing CAD Standards
- Configuring Standards, Checking Standards, Layer Translation

Three-Dimensional(3D) Techniques
- Introduction to 3D
- Understanding 3D Coordinate Systems,
- Defining a User Coordinate System in 3D Space,
- Using Viewports, Orbit Viewing in 3D, Shading a Model

Drawing in 3D
- Working with Lines, Polylines, and 3D Polylines,
- Using Object Snaps and Point Filters,
- 3D AutoCAD Editing Commands, EXTEND, TRIM, and
- Other Editing Commands in 3D, Working with Regions

Surfacing in 3D
- Basic Surfacing Techniques,
- Working with Advanced Surfacing Commands

Solid Modeling in 3D
- The Autodesk Shape Manager, Creating Primitives,
- Creating Solids with EXTRUDE and REVOLVE,
- Working with 3D Boolean Operations,
- Enhanced Modeling with FILLET and CHAMFER,
- Controlling Solid Representations,
- Advanced Solid Modeling Commands, Editing Solids

Rendering in 3D
- Types of Rendering, The Rendering Process,
- Creating a View, Creating and Assigning Materials,
- Working with Lights, Generating an Output