AUTOCAD ESSENTIALS

New users of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT will benefit from this 3-day course that highlights the productivity and efficiencies that come with AutoCAD. Understand the AutoCAD environment and drawing scale, drafting tools, and more.

Course Outline

Day1

Getting Started

• Communicate with AutoCAD
• Understand the AutoCAD user interface
• Getting out of trouble
• Options for starting a drawing
• Manage drawing files

Viewing a Drawing

• Understand drawing scale in AutoCAD
• Move around a drawing in “real time”
• Time-saving display tools

Basic Drafting Tools

• Use different coordinate systems in CAD
• Use object snaps to control accuracy
• Save time with running Osnaps
• Create and edit 2D geometry
• Create lines, circles, and arcs in AutoCAD
• Erase, move, copy, scale, and rotate objects
• Use grips for better editing

Day 2

Managing Object Properties

• Add windows
• Organise drawing geometry using layers
• Work with different Linetypes
• Options for changing object properties
  Basic Drawing Techniques
  • Use AutoCAD to make objects parallel, longer, repeat, or symmetrical
  • Trim unwanted segments, round object corners
  • Create orthographic views

  Saving Time with Blocks

  • Draw something once and use it many times over
  • Use a library of drawing components
  • Use components from other drawings

Day 3

Drawing Annotation

• Use single and multiline text
• Learn dimension techniques
• Dimension angles, arcs, and circles
• Quick dimensions

Working with Layouts

• Create sheets for plotting
• Use viewports
• Set layouts to plot to scale

Improving Drawing Appearance

• How to use hatch patterns to represent different parts or materials

Getting Your Drawings Out

• Plotting options
• Control plotting scale