Get Started with CAD

1. Get Started

2. Use the Interface

3. Communicate with AutoCAD

4. Use Help and assistance

5. Manage Drawing Files

6. Work in drawings

• Start a NEW drawing
• Open a drawing
• Save drawings using:

• save
• save-as

7. Apply set-up parameters

• Set drawing limits
• Determine drawing units
• Determine level of precision
   

1. Apply Drawing Scale & View Magnification

2. Use Zoom Commands

• Window
• Previous
• Extents
• Scale

3. Use Pan

Use Coordinates & Basic Drafting Tools

1. Use Absolute Coordinates

2. Use Relative Cartesian Coordinates

3. Use Relative Polar Coordinates

4. Use Object Snap and Overides

5. Use Running Object Snaps

6. Use Polar & Direct Distance Entry

7. Use SNAP & GRID

8. Use OTRAC

9. Use Inquiry Commands

• ID
• Dist
• List
• Area
• Perimeter
   

1. Create LINE

2. Create CIRCLES & ARCS

3. Create LWPOLYLINE

4. Create POINT

• Using MEASURE
• Using DIVIDE

5. Create ELLIPSE

6. Create POLYGON

7. Create DONUT

8. Create SPLINE
                    

Modify and Edit CAD objects

1. Use ERASE

2. Use Selection Tools

3. Use MOVE & COPY

4. Use SCALE

5. Use ROTATE

6. Use GRIPS

Manage Object Properties

1. Use Layers

2. Manage Properties BYLAYER

3. Use Linetypes

4. Use Lineweights

5. Use Object Properties

6. Set Properties

7. Use CAD Standards

Use CAD Construction Techniques

1. Use OFFSET

2. Use TRIM

3. Use EXTEND

4. UseFILLET

5. Use CHAMFER

6. Use MIRROR

7. Use STRETCH

8. Use ARRAY

9. Use EXPLODE

10. Use Copy & Paste

11. Use more tools

• List
• Area
• Perimeter

Create Text and Define Styles

1. Use TEXT Objects

2. Create & Modify Text STYLE

3. Use MTEXT

4. Edit Text

5. Use Text Tools

• Find & Replace
• Spell Check
• Justification

Use Blocks and Attributes 

1. Understand the Purpose of Blocks (Overview)

2. Make Block Definitions

3. Insert Blocks and Drawing Files

4. Use DesignCenter

5. Create Attributes

6. Use Pallettes

Use  Dimensions & Hatching

Dimensions

1. Use Dimensions for distance

2. Use Angular Dimensions

3. Use Radial and Diameter Dimensions

4. Understand Dimensions Styles

5. Use Dimension Styles in Others' Drawings

6. Edit Dimensions

7. Use Associative Dimensions

Hatch

8. Create new Hatch objects

9. Edit existing Hatch objects

10. Use Palletes to drag'n'drop Hatch patterns

Apply Page Setup & Plotting

1. Understand Plotter setup

2. Create layouts

3. Create rectangular viewports

4. Set and lock viewport scale

5. Manage Layout tabs

6. Freeze layers in viewports

7. Use Trans-spacial dimensions

8. Use plot style table

Extract information from a drawing

1. Drawing database

2. Standard library

3. Design Center

Use CAD to solve applied mathematical / geometry problems

1. Calculate area

2. Calculate perimeter

3. Calculate distance

4. Calculate volume

5. Calculate angle

Import and export data with CAD software

1. Identify DXF

2. Use Windows cut and paste

1. Create layers and layer system

2. Set line types

3. Create standard text styles

4. Create standard dimension styles

5. Create blocks

6. Write blocks

7. Insert drawings

8. Create standard borders and title blocks

9. Introduction to Design Center

10. Object properties

1. Introduction to paper space

2. Page setup 

3. Create pages

• from scratch
• from template

3. Make viewports

• rectangle
• polygon
• from an existing object

4. Viewport properties

• Scale
• Display lock
• Set viewport border to not plot

5. Turn layers off within a viewport

Create plot styles

• select plot device
• determine appropriate plot scale
• determine plot area

2. Create pen thickness color tables (.ctb)

3. Create pen style tables (.stb) 

4. Create electronic plots

• .DWF
• .PDF
• graphic
   

 

Use Help
2. Use outside resources

• User Group
• Internet forums

3. Use internet

Customize CAD environment

1. Use the options dialogue box

• profiles
• colors
• mouse styles
• pick box size

2. Use and customize toolbars

3. Use and customize menus

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