Autocad Essential

Autocad Essential

Category: Autocad

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Course Description

To provide AUTOCAD users an understanding of the software’s core functionality and features so that they can create, edit, and organize their first drawing. Users will have a solid grounding in the software so that they can immediately be productive using AutoCAD.

Target Group

This course is for anyone who plans to become a regular AutoCAD user and needs the fundamental skills to create, edit and dimension AutoCAD drawings. This course is ideal for those new to AutoCAD® or those who have not used the software for a few years. No previous CAD experience is necessary.

Learning Objectives

  • Draw a 2D layout with Basic Drawing Tool
  • Modify a 2D layout by Editing and Reusing Data to Work Efficiently
  • Manage a drawing with Layers
  • Plot drawings to devices or files
  • Use AUTOCAD unique features in specific scenario to Work Efficiently
  • Configure AUTOCAD by CUI and reusing resources from ACAD

Course Content
 
Day 1

Getting Started
• Exploring the AutoCAD 2023 for windows User Interface
• Exploring AutoCAD’s Graphical Use Interface
• Predrawn Symbol with the Tool Palettes
• Exploring AutoCAD’s Workspaces
• The AutoCAD ribbon

Creating Your first Drawing
• Home Tabl’s Draw and Modify Panels Drawing lines and rectangles
• Canceling , Erasing & Undoing
• Using Coordinate Systems
• Using Polar Coordinates
• Drawing Circles, Arcs and Polygons

• Filleting & Chamfering Lines

Setting Up & Using the Drafting Tools
• Fine-Tuning the Measurement System
• Setting Up the Drawing Limits
• Understanding Scale Factors
• Using Polar Tracking & Modifying an Object
• Making a Preliminary Sketch

• Aligning Objects by Using Object Snap Tracking

Organizing Object with Blocks & Groups
• Block Definition Dialog Box
• Scaling & Rotating Blocks
• Replacing Existing Files with Blocks
• Understanding the Annotation Scale
• Ungrouping, Adding & Subtracting

Keeping Track of Layers
• Working on Layers
• Controlling Layer Visibility
• Finding the Layers You Want
• Taming an Unwieldy List of Layers

Editing & Reusing Data to Work Efficiently
• Creating & Using Templates
• Using Blocks from ADC and Tool Pale
• Making Changes to an Associative Array
• Using Osnap Tracking to Place Objects
• Using Smart Select to filter objects quickly

• Eliminating Unused Blocks, Layer, Linetypes, Shapes, Styles, and more

Mastering Viewing Tools, Hatches
• Understanding Regeneration & Redrawing
• Using Hatch Patterns in your drawing
• Controlling Hatch with the Options Panel
• Controlling Hatch Behavior, Default Layer, Layout Scale, and ISO Line Weight

• Managing Xrefs (attach & edit)

 
Day 2

Understanding Plot Styles
• Choosing Between Color-Dependent and Named Plot St

Adding Text to Drawings

  • Exploring Text Formatting
  • Converting between TEXT and MTEXT (ET tool)
  • Play Comments efficiently by Smart Voice

Drawing Curves
• Marking Divisions on Curves
• Dividing Objects into Segments of Equal Length
• Dividing Objects into Specified Lengths

Getting and Exchanging Data from Drawings

  • Finding the Area of Closed Boundaries & an Object
  • Adding and Subtracting Areas with the Area Command
  • Determining the Drawing’s Status
  • Getting Information from System Variables

Managing and Sharing Your Drawings
• Sharing Drawings over the Internet Protecting ZWCAD Drawing Files (PDF plot, Dwf plot)
• Protecting AutoCAD Drawing Files

• ePublishing Your Drawings (e-Transmit)

Laying Out Your Printer Output

  • Configuring Output Devices
  • Plotting in Model space
  • The essential and beyond

Storing, Presenting and Extracting data
• Editing table styles & creating tables
• Using fields in table cells

• Editing the table data

 


Advance Features

Compatibility

  • Compatibility in DWGs

Interface

  • Ribbon Interfaces
  • Customize User Interface (CUI)
  • Properties Palette

Annotation

  • Leader , MLeader
  • RevCloud
  • Text/MText
  • Hatch/Gradient Hatch

Layer

  • Layer Properties Manager

XREF/Block/Attribute

  • Underlay DWG, DXF,PDF
  • Multiple Blocks Inserting
  • Block Attribute Manager

3D

  • Solid, Surface, Mash Modelling
  • Visual Style

Output

  • Plot with STB/CTB style Publish
  • Export
  • Smart Plot

Innovation

  • Smart Mouse/ Voice/ Select/ Plot Barcode/QR Code

Others

  • File Compare
  • Quick Select
  • Match Property
  • Quick Calculator
  • Multiline, Multiline Style
  • Express Tools

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