Autocad COURSE DETAILS

Detailed Syllabus

Name of course: AUTOCAD 2010

Eligibility: 10+2 or Diploma in mechanical/architecture/electronics/civil/IT or degree (mechanical/architecture/electronics/civil/IT)

Course Coordinator: Srinivas DVG (Mobile no 9885108562, Id : dasari.srinivas28@gmail.com)

Profile of coordinator: 15 years of teaching and industrial experience in AutoCAD

Duration of Course: 45 Days(Regular), 15 Days(Fast track)

Objective: This course covers the essential core topics for working with AutoCAD. The teaching strategy is to start with a few basic tools that enable the student to create and edit a simple drawing, and then continue to develop those tools. The intention of the course is to show the most essential tools and concepts. Hands-on exercises throughout the course are given to explore to create 2D and 3D drawings.

Brief Contents:

·         Understanding the Auto Cad workspace and user interface

·         Using basic drawing, editing, and viewing tools

·         Organizing drawing objects on layers

·         inserting reusable symbols (blocks)

·         Preparing a layout to be plotted

·         Adding text, hatching, and dimensions

·         Understanding External References

·         The User Coordinate System

·         Getting Started with 3D

·         Creating Solid Models

·         Mesh Modelling

·         Rendering and Animating Designs 

Detailed Contents

Getting Started with AutoCAD

·         Starting AutoCAD

·         AutoCAD’s User Interface

·         Working with Commands

·         AutoCAD’s Cartesian Workspace

·         Opening an Existing Drawing File

·         Viewing Your Drawing

·         Saving Your Work

Basic Drawing & Editing Commands

·         Drawing Lines

·         Erasing Objects

·         Drawing Lines with Polar Tracking

·         Drawing Rectangles

·         Drawing Circles

·         Undo and Redo Actions

Projects - Creating a Simple Drawing

·         Create a Simple Drawing

·         Create Simple Shapes

Drawing Precision in AutoCAD

·         Using Running Object Snaps

·         Using Object Snap Overrides

·         Polar Tracking at Angles

·         Object Snap Tracking

·         Drawing with Snap and Grid (Optional)

Making Changes in Your Drawing

·         Selecting Objects for Editing

·         Moving Objects

·         Copying Objects

·         Rotating Objects

·         Scaling Objects

·         Mirroring Objects

·         Editing with Grips

Organizing Your Drawing with Layers

·         Creating New Drawings With Templates

·         What are Layers?

·         Layer States

·         Changing an Object’s Layer

Advanced Object Types

·         Drawing Arcs

·         Drawing Polylines

·         Editing Polylines

·         Drawing Polygons

·         Drawing Ellipses

Getting Information from Your Drawing

·         Working with Object Properties

·         Measuring Objects

Advanced Editing Commands

·         Trimming and Extending Objects

·         Stretching Objects

·         Creating Fillets and Chamfers

·         Offsetting Objects

·         Creating Arrays of Objects

Inserting Blocks

·         What are Blocks?

·         Inserting Blocks

·         Working with Dynamic Blocks

Inserting Blocks with DesignCenter

Setting Up a Layout

·         Printing Concepts

·         Working in Layouts

·         Copying Layouts

·         Creating Viewports

·         Guidelines for Layouts

Printing Your Drawing

·         Printing Layouts

·         Printing from the Model Tab

Text

·         Working with Annotations

·         Adding Text in a Drawing

·         Modifying Multiline Text

·         Formatting Multiline Text

·         Adding Notes with Leaders to Your Drawing

·         Creating Tables

·         Modifying Tables

Hatching

·         Hatching

·         Editing Hatches

·         Adding Dimensions

·         Dimensioning Concepts

·         Adding Linear Dimensions

·         Adding Radial & Angular Dimensions

·         Editing Dimensions

Model Space Viewports,Paper Space Viewports

·         Model Space and Paper Space

·         Creating Tiled View ports

·         Making a View port Current

·         Joining Two Adjacent View-ports

·         Paper Space Viewports(Floating Viewports)

·         Editing Viewports

·         Manipulating the visibility of Viewport Layers

Understanding External References

·         External References

·         Dependent Symbols

·         Managing External Refernces in a drawing

·         The Overlay option

·         Working with the ATTACH Command

The User Coordinate System

·         The World Coordinate System

·         Controlling the Visibility of UCS Icon

·         Defining the New UCS

·         Managing the UCS

Getting Started with 3D

·         Starting Three Dimensional Modeling in AUTOCAD

·         Use of Three Dimensional Drawing

·         Types of 3D Models

·         3D Cordinate Systems

·         TRIM,EXTEND and FILLET Commands in 3D

·         Setting Thickness and Elevation for the New Objects

·         Dynamic Viewing of 3D Objects

Creating Solid Models

·         What is Solid Modeling

·         Creating Predefined Solid Primitives

·         Creating Complex Solid Models by Applying Boolean Operations

·         Creating Extruded Solids

Mesh Modeling

·         Creating Mesh Primitives

·         Creating Surface Meshes

Rendering and Animating Designs

·         Understanding the concept of Rendering

·         Selecting and Attaching Materials

·         Understanding Elementary Rendering

·         Adding Lights to the Design

Recommended Books

·         AUTOCAD for Engineers and Designers BY Prof.Sham Tickoo