AutoCAD 2D Introduction to Advanced 6 Day Course

Workspace

• Navigating the working environment
• Working with files
• Displaying objects

Creating basic drawings

• Inputting data
• Creating basic objects
• Using object snaps
• Using Polar Tracking and PolarSnap
• Using object snap tracking
• Working with units

Manipulating objects

• Selecting objects in the drawing
• Changing an object’s position
• Creating new objects from existing objects
• Changing the angle of an object’s position
• Creating a mirror image of existing objects
• Creating object patterns
• Changing an object’s size

Drawing organisation and&;inquiry commands

• Using layers
• Changing object properties
• Matching object properties
• Using the properties palette
• Using linetypes
• Using inquiry commands

Altering objects

• Trimming and&;extending objects to defined boundaries
• Creating parallel and&;offset geometry
• Joining objects
• Breaking an object into two objects
• Applying a radius corner to two objects
• Creating an angled corner between two objects
• Changing part of an object’s shape

Layouts and viewports

• Using layouts
• Creating layouts
• Modifying layouts and using page setups
• Using viewports
• Creating layout viewports
• Working with layout viewports
• Controlling object visibility in layout viewports

Annotating a drawing

• Creating multi-line text
• Creating single line text
• Using text styles
• Editing text

Dimensioning

• Creating dimensions
• Using dimension styles
• Editing dimensions
• Using multileaders

Hatching objects

• Hatching objects
• Editing hatch objects

Working with reusable content

• Using blocks
• Working with DesignCenter
• Using tool palettes

Creating additional drawing objects

• Working with polylines
• Creating splines
• Creating ellipses
• Using tables

Plotting your drawings

• Using page setups
• Working with plotter configuration files
• Creating and applying
• Plotting drawings
• Plot style tables
• Publishing drawings

Creating drawing templates

• Using drawing templates

Drawing objects

• Creating and editing multi-lines
• Creating revision clouds
• Wipeout objects
• Boundaries
• Regions

Manipulating objects and data

• Selecting objects with quick select
• Purging objects
• Working with point objects
• Dividing and measuring objects
• Using QuickCalc for performing calculations

Template drawing creation

• Creating drawing templates

Dimensioning and Annotation

• Introduction to annotation scaling
• Controlling annotation scale
• Working with text
• Using multi-leaders
• Dimensioning
• Creating center marks
• Creating ordinate dimensions
• Creating geometric dimensions and tolerances
• Working with dimension sub-styles and overrides

Reusable content

• Using design center
• Creating custom tool palettes
• Organising tool palettes
• Sharing tool palettes
• Using external references
• Managing external references
• Referencing non-native file types

Blocks and attributes

• Working with blocks
• Creating attributes
• Editing attributes

Dynamic blocks

• Using dynamic blocks
• Adding parameters to dynamic blocks
• Adding actions to dynamic blocks
• Using parameter sets
• Creating dynamic blocks

Layer management and best practices

• Working with layer filters
• Using the layer states manager
• Using layer standards

Introduction to sheet sets

• Creating sheet sets
• Working with sheet sets
• Setting sheet set properties
• Using fields in sheet sets
• Using attributes in sheet sets
• Publishing
• Transmitting and archiving sheet sets

Working with tables

• Working with table styles
• Creating and editing tables
• Creating advanced tables
• Extracting attributes to tables
• Exporting and&;importing tables
• Creating tables linked to external data