AUTOCAD SYLLABUS
Course title : AUTOCAD
Total lecture hours : 30
Total lab hours : 30
Total course contact hours : 60
Course description:
Introduction to CADD’s objective is to enable students to create a basic 2D & 3D drawings in AutoCAD. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to create and edit a simple AutoCAD drawing. This course will help the student understand the AutoCAD user interface and workspace, use basic drawing, editing and viewing tools, organize a drawing using layers, understand and insert blocks (symbols), prepare a layout to be plotted, and add text, hatching and dimensions.
Topical Outline:
1 Creating a simple drawing
1. Starting AutoCAD
2. AutoCAD’s screen layout
3. Command line and using the keyboard
4. Using your pointing device
5. Opening an existing drawing file
6. AutoCAD’s Cartesian workspace
7. Drawing lines
8. Erasing objects
9. Drawing lines with Direct Distance Entry and Polar Tracking
10. Drawing rectangles
11. Drawing circles
12. Drawing with Grid and Snap
13. Viewing your drawing
14. Undo
15. Saving your work
16. Exiting AutoCAD
17. Command summary
2. Making your drawings more precise
1. Using object snap
2. Object Snap Overrides
3. Polar Tracking settings
4. Object Snap tracking
5. Moving objects
6. Copying objects
7. Rotating objects
8. Scaling objects
9. Command summary
3. Drawing organization and information
1. Creating new drawings with templates
2. What are layers?
3. Layer state
4. Changing an objects layer
5. Command summary
6. Drawing arcs
7. Polylines
8. Converting polylines to lines and arcs
9. Converting lines and arcs to polylines
10. Command summary
4. Creating more complex objects
1. Trim
2. Extend
3. Fillet
4. Chamfer
5. Offsetting objects
6. Mirroring objects
7. Creating arrays of
8. Objects
9. Command summary
10. What are blocks?
11. Inserting blocks
12. Using Design Center to insert blocks
5. Preparing to print
1. Printing concepts
2. Working in layouts
3. Creating a new layout
4. Guidelines for layouts
5. Command summary
6. Plot command
7. Plot settings
8. Plot preview
9. Command summary
6. Annotating your drawing
1. Adding multi-line text
2. Formatting multi-line text
3. Editing multi-line text
4. Other text tools
5. Spell checking
6. Command summary
7. Hatching
8. Editing hatch patterns
9. Command summary
10. Dimension concepts
11. Adding single dimensions
12. Other dimension tools
13. Quick dimensions
14. Basic leaders
15. Editing dimensions
16. Selecting a dimension style
17. Command summary
7. Creating isometric & oblique drawings
1. Drawing isometric projections
2. Drawing oblique projections
8. 3D Diagrams
1. 3D commands
2. Basic 3D drawings
3. Complex 3D drawings
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