AutoCAD: Essentials (Online Training)

Getting Started

• Communicating with AutoCAD
• Understanding the AutoCAD user interface
• Getting out of trouble
• Options for starting a drawing
• Managing drawing files

Viewing a Drawing

• Understanding drawing scale in AutoCAD
• Moving around a drawing in “real time”
• Time-saving display tools

Basic Drafting Tools

• Using different coordinate systems in CAD
• Using object snaps to control accuracy
• Saving time with running osnaps
• Your electronic T-square

Creating and Editing 2D Geometry

• Creating lines, circles, and arcs in AutoCAD
• Erasing, moving, copying, scaling, and rotating objects
• Using grips for better editing

Managing Object Properties

• Adding windows
• Organising drawing geometry using layers
• Working with different linetypes
• Options for changing object properties

Basic Drawing Techniques

• Using AutoCAD to make objects parallel, longer, repeat, or symmetrical
• Trim unwanted segments, round object corners Creating orthographic views

Saving Time with Blocks

• Draw something once and use it many times over
• Using a library of drawing components
• Using components from other drawings

Drawing Annotation

• Use single and multiline text
• Learning dimension techniques
• Dimensioning angles, arcs and circles
• Quick dimensions

Working with Layouts

• Creating sheets for plotting
• Using viewports
• Setting layouts to plot to scale

Improving Drawing Appearance

• How to use hatch patterns to represent different parts or materials

Getting Your Drawings Out

• Plotting options, controlling plotting scale