AutoCAD Level I
Overview
Includes a 175-page online manual, 17 exercises and 20 instructional videos. This online training manual was designed as an introductory course and is recommended for users of all AutoCAD-based products. The course emphasizes fundamental 2D drafting skills. Develop a comfortability with the AutoCAD environment. Through the use of our highly-evolved online course materials, videos and hands-on exercises, this self-paced manual will help develop the necessary skills for efficient and accurate drafting. Recommended prerequisites: None.
Topics
Drawing setup, units and scale, object creation and editing functions, display and zoom functions, advanced drawing functions including 2d polylines and arrays, hatching, query tools, layer creation and management, text, dimensions, precision drafting with object snaps, blocks, dimensioning, the Cartesian coordinate system, relative coordinates, coordinate precision, and more.
Table of Contents
1. User Interface
2. AutoCAD Help
3. Files
4. Basic Display Functions
5. Regenerating the Display
6. Saving and Restoring a View
7. Basic Draw Functions
8. Fixing Mistakes
9. Selecting Objects
10. Basic Editing Commands
11. Drafting with Units and Coordinates
12. Accuracy with Object SNAPS
13. Polylines
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14. Advanced File Functions
15. Advanced Draw Functions
16. Query Commands
17. Quick Calculator
18. Advanced Edit Functions
19. Layers
20. Properties Dialog
21. Text Commands
22. Dimensioning
23. Blocks
24. AutoCAD Design Center
25. InfoCenter
26. AutoCAD Command Aliases
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AutoCAD Level II
Overview
Includes a 196-page online manual, 4 exercises, and 25 instructional videos. This online training manual was designed for users who have completed AutoCAD Level I and for existing users who wish to improve their AutoCAD skills. Course emphasizes plotting and managing drawings. Learn the commands that all experienced AutoCAD users should know and understand. Attain an understanding of AutoCAD’s method of project collaboration. Learn the workflow of AutoCAD’s plotting process. Recommended prerequisites: AutoCAD Level I.
Topics
Advanced environment topics including external references, drawing file management, paper space, page setups, viewports, plotting, publishing, PDFs, DWFs, raster images, tables, text from Microsoft Word, line types, user coordinate systems, annotative objects, fields, design center, data extraction, dynamic blocks, and etransmit.
Table of Contents
1. Preparing to Plot
2. Paper Space
3. Page Setup Manager
4. Viewports
5. Plotting
6. Scale
7. External references (XREF)
8. Editing Blocks and External References
9. Images
10. Text commands
11. Annotative Objects
12. Layers
13. Advanced Blocks
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14. Using other applications with AutoCAD Drawings
15. Management Tools
16. Tool Palettes
17. Internet Options
18. Managing the User Coordinate System (UCS)
19. Views
20. 3D Drafting and Visualization
21. AutoCAD Customization
22. Sheet Set Manager
23. DEFAULT AUTOCAD COMMAND ALIASES
24. Videos
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Raster Design
Overview
Includes a 29-page online manual and four instructional videos. This training manual focuses on the tools for overlaying, editing, and plotting raster images in combination with vector information from AutoCAD. Raster Design provides raster display, image enhancement, and plotting capabilities for satellite imagery, scanned aerial photographs, or color TIFF images within AutoCAD. Overlay photographic images behind maps, plan and profile sheets, and other construction documents for site feasibility studies, GIS, presentation drawings, and more. Raster Design also allows editing of raster images. “Heads-up” digitizing improves speed and accuracy. Scanned drawings may be converted completely to AutoCAD files or partially revised and plotted as hybrid raster/vector drawings. Learn editing tools to locate, draw, erase, and change raster as easily as vector.
Recommended prerequisites: AutoCAD Level I and II.
Topics
Learn editing tools to locate, erase, and change raster as easily as vector. Rubbersheeting tools facilitate more exact georeferencing. Overlay photographic images behind maps, plan and profile sheets, and other construction documents for site feasibility studies, presentation drawings, GIS, and more. Use the Palette Manager to change the colors of the image like layers in an AutoCAD drawing. "Heads-up" digitizing improves speed and accuracy. Line following routines can be used for automated conversion of contour data. Text recognition routines convert raster text to AutoCAD text objects. Scanned drawings may be converted completely to AutoCAD vectors or partially revised and plotted as hybrid raster/vector drawings.
Table of Contents
1. About Raster and Vector
2. Raster Design File Management
3. Inserting and Managing Images
4. Manipulating the Image
5. Tracing Vector Entities Over Raster Imagers
6. Editing Raster Images
7. Saving Raster and Vector Files
8. Plotting
9. Automatic Line Following
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AutoCAD Update
Overview
Includes a 168-page online manual and 10 instructional videos. This online training manual is recommended for AutoCAD-based users who are migrating from an older version to a newer version of AutoCAD. Users transitioning from previous versions will learn new AutoCAD features and productivity enhancements included in the latest release and a couple of releases back. Recommended prerequisites: Prior knowledge of previous versions of AutoCAD.
Topics
Interface changes, associative arrays, parametric constraints, selection and grip improvements, PDF improvements, annotation changes, online functionality, and other often overlooked command updates that will enhance productivity. This course does not include 3D solid modeling.
Table of Contents
1. 2020 New Features
2. 2019 New Features
3. 2018 New Features
4. 2017 New Features
5. 2016 New Features
6. 2015 New Features
7. 2014 New Features
8. 2013 New Features
9. Videos
