Course Description

Provides a thorough grounding in AutoCAD for beginners, teaching the most widely used commands and techniques for producing high-quality, accurate 2D drawings. The AutoCAD drawing techniques taught are generic, and relevant to all industries.

Target Student

This course is ideal for the following:

• Newcomers to AutoCAD and CAD drawing.
• Users with a small amount of AutoCAD experience.
• Users who previously used a different CAD tool are looking to migrate to AutoCAD.

Pre-requisites

Delegates should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows^®. No prior CAD knowledge is necessary.

Course Content

The AutoCAD Interface

• Features of the ribbon
• The Application menu
• The Quick Access toolbar
• The command line

Creating Basic Drawings

• Creating basic objects
• Working with polylines
• Using object snaps
• Using object snap tracking

Accurate Object Creation

• Working wiht units
• Cartesian coordinates
• Polar coordinates
• Using Inquiry commands

Object Viewing

• Zooming techniques
• Panning techniques

Manipulating objects

• Selecting objects in the drawing
• Moving objects
• Copying objects
• Rotating objects
• Mirroring objects
• Arraying objects
• Scaling objects

Altering objects

• Trimming and extending object to define boundaries
• Creating parallel and offset geometry
• Joining objects
• Chamfering corners between two objects
• Stretching objects

Drawing Organisation

• Using layers
• Changing objecct properties
• Matching object properties
• Using the properties palette
• Using linetypes

Working with Layouts

• Using page setups
• Using layouts
• Using viewports
• Scaling drawing views

Annotating the Drawing

• Creating mulitiline text
• Creating single line text
• using text styles
• Editing text

Dimensioning

• Creating dimensions
• Using dimension styles
• Editing dimensions
• Using multileaders

Hatching objects

• Hatching objects
• Editing hatch objects

Working with reusable content

• Creating and inserting blocks
• Using tool palettes

Plotting your Drawings

• Plotting drawings
• PDF output
• Using Plotstyles

Creating Drawing Templates

• Using drawing templates