Course Length: 3-5 days

Course Description

This course is designed for the experienced AutoCAD®user who requires additional training. It incorporates the features, commands, and techniques for becoming more productive when creating, annotating, and printing drawings with AutoCAD. This intermediate-level course continues to build on the basic concepts of the AutoCAD Essentials course. Hands-on exercises throughout the course explore how to create 2D production drawings. The exercises are provided in both a printed format as well as an onscreen format that can be viewed next to AutoCAD.

 

 

Performance-Based Objectives

 

•To teach students powerful tools and techniques for drawing, dimensioning, and printing 2D drawings.

•To enable students to reuse content that has been previously created, and extract information from their drawings.

•To teach students to grasp the high-level concepts of designing in 3D.

 

With an understanding of these tools, students can begin to streamline the design process and become more productive with AutoCAD.

 

 

 

 

 

Course Content

Drawing Objects

•Multilines

•Revision Clouds

•Wipeouts

•Boundaries

•Regions

Manipulating Objects

and Data

•Using Quick Select

•Purging Objects

•Point Objects

•Dividing and Measuring Objects

•Geometry Calculator

Template Drawing Creation

•Using Drawing Templates

Dimensioning and

Annotation

•Introduction to Annotation Scaling

•Controlling Annotation Scale

•Using Multileaders

•Dimensioning

•Center Marks

•Ordinate Dimensions

•Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances

•Dimension Styles and Overrides

 

Reusable Content

•Using DesignCenter™

•Creating Custom Tool Palettes

•Managing and SharingTool Palettes

•Using External References

•Importing Other Filetypes

Blocks and Attributes

•Blocks

•Attributes

•Edit and Extract Attributes

Dynamic Blocks

•Using Dynamic Blocks

•Parameters

•Actions

•Parameter Sets

•Creating Dynamic Blocks

Layer Management and Best

Practices

•Layer Filters

•Layer States Manager

•Layer Standards

 

Layouts and Views

•Creating Layouts

•Modifying Layouts and

Using Page Setups

•Creating Layout Viewports

•Working with Layout

Viewports

•Controlling Object

Visibility in Layout

Viewports

•Controlling Annotation

Scales in Viewports

Plotting

•Plotter Configuration Files

•Plot Style Tables

•Publishing Drawings

Introduction to Sheet Sets

•Creating Sheet Sets

•Working with Sheet Sets

•Setting Sheet SetProperties

•Using Fields in Sheet Sets

•Using Attributes in SheetSets

•Publishing, Transmitting,and Archiving Sheet Sets

Creating Tables

•Table Styles

•Creating and ModifyingTables

•Creating Tables fromExternal Data

•Advanced Table Contents

•Extracting Attributes toTables

•Exporting and ImportingTables

Designing in 3D

•Introduction to 3D

•Creating Basic Modelsfrom 2D Profiles