AutoCAD Course Objectives
AutoCAD citified User course includes both academic and industry requirements designed to confirm that AutoCAD users have the skills necessary to continue their design careers.
User interface
UI Navigation
Working Modes
Command Line
Toolbars
Menu Option
Keyboard Shortcuts
Toolbars
Standard Tool Bar
Draw Tool Bar
Modify Tool Bar
Properties Tool Bar
File formats
Interface Customization
Setting Drawing Limits
Open & Save Drawing
The X-Y Coordinate system
Linear & Angular Measurement
Entering points in AutoCAD
AutoCAD Terminology
Coordinate Entry
Object Selection Methods
Remove last, previous Fence, Cycling
Crossing polygon & window
Display control
Undo & redo
Erase Objects
Editing with Grips
Zoom
Aerial View
DS Viewer
Pan
Quick Menu
Object properties
UCS & WCS
Object Referencing
Status Bar
Object Construction
Line, Multi-Line Ray point construction
Drawing Objects
Circle
Polygon
Rectangle
Ellipse
Donut
Arc
Circular & Elliptical arc
Polyline, Spline
Revision Control
Creating regions
Hatching
Color Gradients
Poly Line Edit
Text Management
Tables
Modifying Object
Line Type Control
Line Color Control
Line weight Control
Text Editing
Dimension Style Tools
Table Style Tools
Modification Commands
Erase, Copy, Mirror, Offset, Move Array, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Trim, Extend, Break at point, Join, Chamfer, Fillet Direct, Distance Entry, Object tracking, Direct distance entry, Polar tracking
Object snap tracking, Dynamic input
Orthographic projection
Isometric
Layers
Layers status
Properties
Linear, Aligned, Radius, Diameter, etc
Libraries
Object Libraries
External reference
Tools
Inserting layouts, DWG references,
Raster Images, Fields
Tool Pallets
Design Center
Inquiry
Standardization
Single Drawing & Batch Drawing
Drawing Layouts
Model & Layout spaces
Viewports
Layout Wizard
Layout Toolbar
Layout commands
Page setup manager
Plotting
Introduction to Blocks
Creating
Inserting
Attributes Non –
Graphical information
Creating a title block with Attributes”
Parametric constraints
Elevation drawing
AutoCAD 3D
Introduction to3D
Working in 3 dimensions
Viewing 3-D Objects
Basic wireframe models
Line Thickness
Regions and 3-D E faces
Extruding and loafing
Revolved Object
Adding Materials
Primitive solids
Boolean operation
Changing from the WCS to the UCS
Mapping materials
Creating new materials
Model a building
Introduction to rendering and lighting
Practical Approach
A real-time example will be given throughout the lectures, starting with design basics to expert level.