AutoCAD Basics (2D & 3D)
About This Course
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.
• Organising 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
What You'll Learn
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. Organising Your Drawing with Layers
b. What are Layers?
c. Layer States, Transparency
d. Changing an Object’s Layer
e. Drawing Lines, rectangles, circles, polygons, ellipses
f. Drawing Aids
- Using Running Object Snaps
- Using Object Snap Overrides
- Polar Tracking and Polar Snap
- Object Snap Tracking
3. Making Changes in Your Drawing
a. Selecting Objects for Editing
b. Moving, Copying, Rotating & Mirroring 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
6. Text and Hatching
a. Working with Annotations
b. Setting up text styles
c. Adding single line and multiline text in a Drawing
7. Blocks
a. What are Blocks?
b. Inserting Blocks
8. Annotate and Adding Dimensions
a. Dimensioning Concepts
b. Setting Dimensioning and Multileader styles
9. Creating Templates
a. Why Use Templates?
b. Controlling Units Display
c. Creating New Layers
10. Introduction to 3D Modelling
a. Why used 3D?
b. 3D Modelling Workspace
11. Creating Solid Model from basic primitives and 2D objects
a. Working with Solid Primitives / Solid Primitive Types
b. Working with Composite Solids
12. Visualisation and documenting 3D Models
a. Creating Visual Styles/ Working with Materials
b. Specifying Light Sources/ Rendering Concepts
Entry Requirements
Basic English proficiency & basic knowledge of windows operating system