This course gives the participants familiarity to the interface, the various editing tools, coordinate system, layering and dimensioning used in AutoCAD. The focus will be in 2D Drawing concepts highlighted above.

At the end of this course participants should be able to:

• Identifying the AutoCAD environment and using help.
  
• Identifying and use the commands and icons for creating primitive 2D shapes.
  
• Using and understanding the Dynamic and Pointer Input.
  
• Using the snap and editing tools on 2D shapes.
  
• Applying appropriate hatching and dimensioning to drawings.
  
• Creating, modifying, and reusing blocks.
  
• Identifying types of attributes, and create and modifying blocks with attributes.
  
• Creating and editing dynamic blocks.
  
• Understanding the print setup & printing command in AutoCAD.
  
• Using the grip and various selection methods for object selection and modifying.
  
• Using the object and layer filtering to search objects and managing drawings respectively.
  
• Using Xref and XClip to resuse objects created from a database.

General public and industry specific personal who want to gain better product knowledge.

Getting started with AutoCAD

• Starting AutoCAD
• AutoCAD Windows
• Multiple Design Environments
• Menus, dialog boxes and toolbars
• AutoCAD Design Centre
• Preferences
• Using command Prompt
• Accessing Help

Understanding Basic Concepts

• Co-ordinate systems
• Opening drawings
• Creating new drawing
• Using drawing aids
• Creating lines & circles
• Using co-ordinate entry
• Selecting & Removing Objects
• Saving Drawings

Application of Layers

• Introduction to layers
• Creating layers
• Setting colour & linetype
• Managing layers
• Layer Groups
• Changing object properties

Utilizing Display Commands

• Zoom
• Pan
• Real-time Zoom & Pan
• Aerial view
• Redraw & Regen

Entity Draw Commands

• Circles & Donut
• Arc & Ellipse
• Offset
• Rectangles & Polygons
• Donut
• Point & Point style
• Pline & Mline
• Ray & Xline
• Using object snap & PolarSnap
• AutoSnap & AutoTrack
• Dynamic and Pointer Input (DYN and DYNMODE)

Editing Tools

• Erase
• Break & Trim
• Undo & Redo
• Copy & Move
• Rotate & Scale
• Stretch & Mirror
• Extend & Lengthen
• Chamfer & Fillet
• Pedit
• Editing with grips
• Using array
• Modify & Change
• Explode
• Purge

Enhancing Drawing - Hatch & Text

• Introduction to Hatching
• Boundary Hatching
• Editing Hatching
• Text styles
• Text, Dtext and MText
• Adding Background and Inserting Symbols in MText
• Editing text using in Place Editor
• DDEdit & DDMODIFY

Tables, Fields and Cells

• Creating AutoCad Tables
• Cells
• Creating Fields

Dimensioning

• Dim styles
• Creating dimensions
• Editing dimensions
• Quick Dimensioning (QDIM)
• Dynamic Dimensioning
• Difference in dimensioning in model and paper space
• Principles of dimension in model and paper space

Model Space / Paper Space

• Differences between model and paper space
• Tiled Viewports and floating viewports
• How to create and scale viewports

Static Blocks

• Creating Blocks
• Inserting Blocks
• Updating Block definitions
• External references

Dynamic Blocks

• Dynamic Block creation
• Setting Parameters
• Block Actions
• Visibility States
• Lookup tables

Sheet Sets

• Creating a Sheet Set
• View & Modifying a Sheet Set
• Creating Sheet Views
• Placing a View on a Sheet
• Cross-reference Sheet Views
• Create a sheet list table
• Archive a Sheet Set

Object control and selection

• Selection modes
• Grips
• Object selection
• Object group
• Quick Select command

Object Filtering

• How to search for drawing objects
• Filter options

Layer Filtering

• Layer filter options
• How to apply layer filter

Blocks and Attributes

• Type of blocks
• How to create blocks with attributes
• Type of attributes
• Attribute options

Systems Variables

• What are system variables?
• Preferences
• User profiles

External References

• How to use external reference files
• Advantages of using Xref
• In-place Xref editing
• How to use Xclip

Printing, publishing and Housekeeping

• Print Dialog Box
• Printing
• Model Space & Paper Space
• Recovering drawings
• Copying & renaming files
• Audit
• Publish a Printed Sheet Set
• Publish an E-Sheet Set
• Background Plotting

Batch Plotting

• What is Batch Plotting?
• Plotter configuration
• How to use Batch Plot Utility
• Advantages

Course Duration: 30 hours

* All Schedules are correct at the injection date, the management reserved the right to change the schedule from time to time without prior notice. Kindly contact your Account Executive and/or Customer Service Executive for more information and queries.

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