AutoCAD 2016 2D and 3D Course

Course Details

Duration:
36 Hours

Course Objectives

Upon completing the course, participants will acquire the essential knowledge & core skills in the area of drafting & design. Participants will appreciate the simplistic and yet efficient use of AutoCAD.

Understanding the AutoCAD workspace and user interface.
Using drawing, editing, constructing technique and viewing tools.
Organizing and getting information from drawing objects.
Inserting reusable symbols (blocks).
Setting up layers, styles, and templates
Preparing a layout to be plotted.
Adding text, hatching, and dimensions.
3D viewing techniques and working with User Coordinate system
Creating and editing 3D solid model
Rendering the 3D model to enhance its appearance
Generating 2D drawings from the 3D Model.

Suitable For

Draughtsman, Designer, technician, engineer and those who are keen to learn and apply the basics of 2D and 3D modelling.

Course Outline

1. Getting Started with AutoCAD

a) User Interface
b) Working with Commands
c) Cartesian Workspace – Precision input
d) Opening an Existing Drawing File
e) Viewing/Saving Drawing

2. Organising and creating drawing

a) Organizing Your Drawing with Layers
What are Layers?
Layer States, Transparency
Changing an Object’s Layer
b) Drawing Lines, rectangles, circles, polygons, ellipses
c) Drawing Aids
Using Running Object Snaps
Using Object Snap Overrides
Polar Tracking and Polar Snap
Object Snap Tracking
Grid Mode
Erasing Objects
Undo and Redo Actions

3. Making Changes in Your Drawing

a) Selecting Objects for Editing
b) Moving, Copying, Rotating & Mirroring Objects
c) Editing with Grips
d) Trimming and Extending Objects
e) Stretching Objects
f) Creating Fillets and Chamfers, Blend
g) Offsetting Objects
h) Creating Arrays of Objects

4. Getting Information from Your Drawing

a) Working with Object Properties
b) Measuring Objects

5. Setting Up a Layout and printing your drawing

a) Printing Concepts
b) Working in Layouts
c) Copying Layouts
d) Creating Layout Viewports
e) Setting view in viewports to control layer display, properties, etc
f) Guidelines for Layouts
g) Printing Layouts
h) Printing from the Model Tab

6. Text and Hatching

a) Working with Annotations
b) Setting up text styles
c) Adding single line and multiline text in a Drawing
d) Edit Multiline Text
e) Formatting Multiline Text
f) Adding Notes with Leaders to Your Drawing
g) Creating and editing hatching

7. Blocks

a) What are Blocks?
b) Inserting Blocks
c) Inserting Blocks with DesignCenter
d) Editing and Write Blocks
e) Removing Unused Elements
f) Adding Blocks to Tool Palettes
g) Inserting Blocks with Tool Pallette
h) Creating Blocks with attributes
i) Extracting data from the blocks