• Understanding the AutoCAD workspace and user interface.
• Using basic drawing, editing, and viewing tools.
• Organizing drawing objects on layers.
• Inserting reusable symbols (blocks).
• Preparing a layout to be plotted.
• Adding text, hatching, and dimensions.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

• • Drawing a 2D layout with Basic Drawing Tool
  • Manage User Coordinate System
  • Managing a drawing with Layers
  • Annotate drawings and plotting
  • Create more complex surfaces and modifying solids
  • Organize drawing for Modeling & Rendering

Getting Started
Exploring the AutoCAD for
Windows User interface
Setting drawing units

Basic Drawing Skills
Navigating 2D drawings
Drawing lines & rectangles
Canceling, erasing & undoing
Using coordinate systems
Drawing circles, arcs & polygons
Filleting & chamfering lines
Trim & Extend

Using Drawing Aids
Grid & Snap
Ortho & Polar Tracking
Polar Snap
Running object snaps
Object Snap Tracking

Editing Entities
Creating selection sets
Move & Copy
Rotate & Scale Arrays
Lengthen & Stretch
Offset & Mirror

Controlling Visibility & Appearance
Changing object properties
Setting the current layer
Altering objects’ layer assignments
Controlling layer visibility
Applying linetype
Assigning properties by object or by layer
Managing layer properties

Organizing Objects
Defining & Inserting blocks
Editing blocks
Redefining blocks
Working with groups

Hatchings and Gradients
Specifying hatch areas
Associating hatches with boundaries
Hatching with patterns
Hatching with gradients

Creating & Editing Text
Creating text styles
Writing fines of text
Writing paragraphs of text
using MTEXT
Editing text

Dimensioning
Styling dimensions
Adding dimensions
Editing dimensions

Working with Layouts & Annotative Objects
Creating annotative styles & objects
Creating layouts
Adjusting floating viewports
Overriding layer properties in layout viewports
Drawing on layouts

Printing & Plotting
Configuring output devices
Creating plot style tables
Using plot style tables Plotting in model space
Plotting layouts in paper space
Exporting to an electronic format

Participant will receive an industry recognized Autodesk Certificate of Completion E-Certificate from Autodesk they have attended and successfully completed the course.

• To educate AutoCAD users in the abundance of concepts and techniques employed in computer-aided design and drafting

• Users who are familiar with 2D drawing techniques in AutoCAD and want to create 3D models of their design.

Creating 3D drawings

• Getting to know the 3D Modeling Workspace
• Coordinates in 3D
• Drawing in 3D using wireframe
• Creating 3D Form from 2D Shapes
• Moving around Your Model
• Getting a Visual Effect
• Turning a 3D view into a 2D AutoCAD Drawing

Using Advanced 3D Features

• Mastering the User Coordinate Systems
• Understanding the UCS Options
• Using Viewports to Aid in 3D Drawing
• Creating Spiral Forms
• Modifying Objects in 3D Space

Editing & Visualizing 3D Solids.

• Understanding Solid Modeling
• Creating Solid Forms
• Creating Complex solids
• Editing Solids
• Streamlining the 2D Drawing Process
• Visualizing Solids
• Creating a Quick Study Rendering
• Printing your Renderings

Participant will receive an industry recognizedAutodesk Certificate of Completion E-Certificate from Autodesk they have attended and successfully completed the course.