AutoCAD Essential course in Petaling Jaya

Day 1

• Getting Started – exploring the AutoCAD 2023 for Windows user interface, AutoCAD's graphical user interface
• Getting Started (cont.) – predrawn symbols with the Tool Palettes, AutoCAD's workspaces, the AutoCAD ribbon
• Creating Your First Drawing – Home tab's Draw and Modify panels, drawing lines and rectangles, cancelling, erasing & undoing
• Creating Your First Drawing (cont.) – coordinate systems, polar coordinates, circles, arcs and polygons, filleting & chamfering lines
• Setting Up and Using the Drafting Tools – fine-tuning the measurement system, setting up drawing limits, understanding scale factors
• Setting Up and Using the Drafting Tools (cont.) – polar tracking & modifying an object, preliminary sketch, object snap tracking
• Organizing Objects with Blocks and Groups – Block Definition dialog box, scaling and rotating blocks, replacing existing files with blocks
• Organizing Objects with Blocks and Groups (cont.) – understanding the annotation scale; ungrouping, adding & subtracting
• Keeping Track of Layers and Blocks – working on layers, controlling layer visibility, finding layers, taming an unwieldy list of layers
• Editing and Reusing Data to Work Efficiently – creating and using templates, changes to an associative array, Osnap tracking
• Editing and Reusing Data (cont.) – eliminating unused blocks, layers, linetypes, shapes, styles, and more
• Mastering Viewing Tools, Hatches – understanding regeneration and redrawing, using hatch patterns, controlling hatch with the Options panel
• Mastering Viewing Tools, Hatches (cont.) – controlling hatch behaviour, default layer, layout scale and ISO line weight; managing Xrefs

Day 2

• Understanding Plot Styles – choosing between colour-dependent and named plot styles
• Adding Text to Drawings – exploring text formatting in AutoCAD, using the Check Spelling feature
• Using Dimensions – styling, adding, editing & understanding dimensions; placing horizontal and vertical dimensions
• Drawing Curves – marking divisions on curves, dividing objects into segments of equal length or specified lengths
• Getting and Exchanging Data from Drawings – area of closed boundaries & an object, adding and subtracting areas with the Area command
• Getting and Exchanging Data from Drawings (cont.) – determining the drawing's status, getting information from system variables
• Managing and Sharing Your Drawings – sharing drawings over the internet, protecting AutoCAD drawing files, ePublishing your drawings
• Laying Out Your Printer Output – configuring output devices, plotting in model space, the essential and beyond
• Storing, Presenting and Extracting Data – editing table styles & creating tables, using fields in table cells, editing table data