Content Outline and Competencis

DAY 1. Introduction to AUTOCAD Environment

  1. Hardware and software requirement

  2. AutoCAD peripherals

  3. Configuration

  4. AutoCAD menu system

 

Day II. Drawing Editor

  1. Start and Naming New Drawings

  2. Coordinate Systems

  3. Using Absolute Coordinates

  4. Using Polar Coordinates

  5. Using Relative Coordinates

  6. Function Keys

  7. Object Selection


Day III. Drawing Setup

  1. Units Limits, Axis, Layers, Colors

  2. Linetypes

 

Day IV. DRAWING AIDS

  1. Osnap, Snap, Grids, Ortho

 

Day V. Drawing Entinits

  1. Lines and Polylines

  2. Arc, Circles, Ellipse

  3. Rectangle, Polygons, Point, Donut

  4. Solid, fill, Text, Dtext, Qtext and Mtext

 

Day VI. Entry Properties

  1. Linetype, Ltscale

  2. Colors, Fonts, Layers, Thickness

  3. Elevation, Angles

 

Day VII. Viewing Order

  1. Zoom, Pan, Fill, (on/off), Viewers

  2. Vports, Vpoints


Day VIII. Entitiy Modify/Edit

  1. Change Properties (modify); Change Text

  2. Fillet, Chamfer, Offset, Extend, Trim

  3. Erase, Copy, Move, Rotate

  4. Scale, Mirror, Array, Break

  5. Measure, Divide, Stretch, Pedit

  6. Explode, Bhatch/Hatch, Ddedit


Day IX. Transparant Commands

  1. 'Z, 'P, 'CAL, 'Os, ' Di, 'ID


Day X. Basic Dimensioning

  1. Entity dimension, Dim Variables

  2. Dim Style, Units,


Day XI. Inquireing Commands

  1. ID, AREA, DIST, LIST

  2. DBLIST, STATUS, CAL


Day XII. Drawing Import and Export

  1. Import other files

  2. Export to other formats


Day XIII. Printing

  1. Paper Size, Scaling


Day XIV. Autocad Project Work


Day XV. Sum up Programme

  1. Final presentation of the project work

  2. Sum up the AutoCAD course and Discussion on Future perspectives

  3. Identification new agendas on CAD related work

  4. Closing ceremony