AutoCAD syllabus

1: INTRODUCTION TO AUTOCAD
1 Starting AutoCAD
2 AutoCAD Screen Components
3 Drawing Area Command Window Navigation bar Status bar
4 Invoking Commands in AutoCAD Keyboard
5 Ribbon
6 Application Menu Tool Palettes Menu Bar
7 Toolbar
8 Shortcut Menu AutoCAD Dialog Boxes Starting a New Drawing
9 Open a Drawing Start from Scratch Use a Template Use a Wizard
10 Saving Your Work
11 Save Drawing as Dialog box
12 Using the Drawing Recovery Manager to Recover Files
13 Closing a Drawing
14 Opening an Existing Drawing
Opening an Existing Drawing Using the Select File Dialog Box Opening an Existing Drawing Using the Start up Dialog Box
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Opening an Existing Drawing Using the Drag and Drop Method
16 Quitting AutoCAD
17 Creating and Managing Workspaces Creating a New Workspace Modifying the Workspace Settings Autodesk Exchange
18 Home

2: GETTING STARTED WITH AUTOCAD

1 Dynamic Input Mode
2 Enable Pointer Input
3 Enable Dimension Input where possible
4 Show command prompting and command input near the crosshairs
5 Drafting Tooltip Appearance
6 Drawing Lines in AutoCAD The Close Option
7 The Undo Option
8 Invoking tools Using Dynamic INPUT/Command Prompt
9 Coordinate Systems
10 Absolute Coordinate System Relative Coordinate System Relative Polar Coordinates Direct Distance Entry Erasing Objects
11 Cancelling and Undoing a Command
12 Object Selection Methods Window Selection Window Crossing Method Drawing a Circle
13 BASIC Display Commands
14 Setting Units Type and Precision Specifying the Format Specifying the Angle Format
15 SETTING the Limits OF A DRAWING

3: STARTING WITH ADVANCED SKETCHING

1 Drawing Arcs Drawing Rectangles Drawing Ellipses
2 Drawing Regular Polygon
3 Drawing Polylines
4 Placing Points
5 Drawing Infinite Lines
6 Writing a Single Line Text

4: WORKING WITH DRAWING AIDS

1 Introduction
2 Understanding the Concept and use of LAYERS Advantages of Using Layers
3 Working with Layers Creating New Layers Making a Layer Current
4 Controlling the Display of Layers
5 Deleting Layers
6 Object Properties
7 Changing the Colour
8 Changing the Line type Changing the Line weight Changing the Plot Style Properties Palette
9 Quick Properties Palette
10 Drafting Settings dialog box
11 Setting Grid Setting Snap Snap Type
12 Drawing Straight Lines using the Ortho Mode
13 Working with Object Snaps
14 Auto Snap Endpoint Midpoint Nearest Centre Tangent Quadrant Intersection
15 Apparent Intersection
16 Perpendicular
17 Node
18 Insertion
19 Snap to None Parallel Extension From
20 Midpoint between 2 Points Temporary Tracking Point Combining Object Snap Modes
21 Running Object Snap Mode Overriding the Running Snap Cycling through Snaps
22 Using Auto Tracking Object Snap Tracking Polar Tracking
23 Auto Track Settings
24 Function and Control Keys

5: EDITING SKETCHED OBJECTS-I

1 Editing Sketches
2 Moving the Sketched Objects
3 Copying the Sketched Objects
4 Creating Multiple Copies
Creating a Single Copy Offsetting Sketched Objects Rotating Sketched Objects Scaling the Sketched Objects Filleting the
5 Sketches Chamfering the Sketches Trimming the Sketched Objects Extending the Sketched Objects Stretching the Sketched
Objects
6 Lengthening the Sketched Objects
7 Arraying the Sketched Objects
8 Rectangular Array
9 Polar Array
10 Path Array
11 Mirroring the Sketched objects
12 Text Mirroring

6: EDITING SKETCHED OBJECTS-II

1 Introduction to Grips
2 Types of Grips
3 Editing a Polyline by Using Grips
4 Editing Gripped Objects
5 Changing the Properties Using the PROPERTIES Pale
6 Matching the Properties of Sketched Objects
7 Cycling Through Selection
8 Managing Contents Using the Design enter Autodesk Seek design content Link Displaying Drawing Properties
9 Basic Display Options Redrawing the Screen Regenerating Drawings
10 Zooming Drawings Real-time Zooming All Option
Centre Option Extents Option Dynamic Option Previous Option Window Option Scale Option Object Option Zoom In and
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Out
12 Panning Drawings
13 Panning in Real time

7: CREATING TEXT AND TABLES

1 Annotative Objects
2 Annotation Scale
3 Assigning Annotative Property and Annotation Scales
4 Customizing Annotation Scale
5 Multiple Annotation Scales
6 Assigning Multiple Annotation Scales Manually
7 Assigning Multiple Annotation Scales Automatically
8 Controlling the Display of Annotative objects
9 Creating Text
10 Writing Single Line Text Entering Special Characters Creating Multiline Text
11 Text Window
12 Text Editor Tab
13 Editing Text
14 Editing Text Using the DDEDIT Command Editing Text Using the Properties Palette Modifying the Scale of the Text
15 Inserting Table in the Drawing
16 Table style Area Insert options Area Insertion behaviour Area
17 Column and row settings Area
18 Set cell styles Area
19 Creating a New Table Style Starting table Area General Area
20 Cell styles Area
21 Setting a Table Style as Current Modifying a Table Style Modifying Tables
22 Substituting Fonts
23 Specifying an Alternate Default Font
24 Creating Text Styles Determining Text Height Creating Annotative text

8: BASIC DIMENSIONING, GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING, AND TOLERANCING

1 Need for Dimensioning Dimensioning in AutoCAD Fundamental Dimensioning Terms
2 Dimension Line
3 Dimension Text Arrowheads Extension Lines Leader
4 Centre Mark and Centrelines
5 Alternate Units Tolerances Limits
6 Associative Dimensions Definition Points Annotative Dimensions
7 Selecting Dimensioning Commands Using the Ribbon and the Toolbar Using the Command Line
8 Dimensioning a Number of Objects Together
Creating Linear Dimensions DIMLINEAR Command Options Creating Aligned Dimensions Creating Arc Length
9 Dimensions Creating Rotated Dimensions Creating Baseline Dimensions Creating Continued Dimensions Creating Angular
Dimensions
10 Dimensioning the Angle between Two Nonparallel Lines
11 Dimensioning the Angle of an Arc
12 Angular Dimensioning of Circles
13 Angular Dimensioning based on Three Points
Creating Diameter Dimensions Creating Radius Dimensions Creating Jogged Linear Dimensions Creating Ordinate
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Dimensions
15 Maintaining Equal Spacing between Dimensions
16 Creating Inspection Dimensions
17 Inspection Label
18 Dimension Value
19 Working with True Associative Dimensions
20 Inspection Rate
21 Removing the Dimension Associatively
22 Converting a Dimension into a True Associative Dimension
23 Drawing Leaders
24 Multileader
25 Adding leaders to existing Multileader
26 Removing Leaders from Existing Multileader
27 Aligning Multileaders
28 Distribute
29 Make leader segments Parallel
30 Specify Spacing
31 Use current spacing
32 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance Geometric Characteristics and Symbols Adding Geometric Tolerance
33 Feature Control Frame
34 Geometric Characteristics Symbol
35 Tolerance Value and Tolerance Zone Descriptor
36 Material Condition Modifier
37 Datum
38 Complex Feature Control Frames Composite Position Tolerance Projected Tolerance Zone
39 Creating Annotative Dimensions, Tolerances, Leaders, and Multileaders

9: EDITING DIMENSIONS
1 Editing Dimensions Using Editing Tools
2 Editing Dimensions by Stretching
3 Editing Dimensions by Trimming and Extending
4 Flipping Dimension Arrow Modifying the Dimensions Editing the Dimension Text Updating Dimensions
5 Editing Dimensions with Grips
6 Editing Dimensions using the Properties Palette
7 Properties Palette (Dimension) Properties Palette (Multileader)
8 Model Space and Paper Space Dimensioning

10: DIMENSION STYLES, MULTILEADER STYLES, AND SYSTEM VARIABLES

1 Using Styles and Variables to Control Dimensions
Creating and Restoring Dimension Styles New Dimension Style dialog box Controlling the Dimension Text Format Fitting
2 Dimension Text and Arrowheads Formatting Primary Dimension Units Formatting Alternate Dimension Units Formatting
the Tolerances
3 Creating and Restoring Multileader Styles
4 Modify Multileader Style dialog box
 11: MODEL SPACE VIEWPORTS, PAPER SPACE VIEWPORTS, AND LAYOUTS
1 Model Space and Paper Space/Layouts
2 Model Space Viewports (Tiled Viewports) Creating Tiled Viewports
3 Making a Viewport Current
4 Joining Two Adjacent Viewports
5 Paper space viewports (Floating Viewports) Creating Floating Viewports
6 Creating Rectangular Viewports
7 Creating Polygonal Viewports
8 Converting an Existing Closed Object into a Viewport
9 Temporary Model Space
10 Editing Viewports
Controlling the Display of Objects in Viewports Locking the Display of Objects in Viewports Controlling the Display of
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Hidden Lines in Viewports Clipping Existing Viewports
12 Maximizing Viewports
13 Inserting Layouts
14 Inserting a Layout Using the Wizard
15 Defining Page Settings
16 Controlling the Display of Annotative Objects in Viewports

12: PLOTTING DRAWINGS

1 Plotting Drawings in AutoCAD
2 Plotting Drawings Using the Plot Dialog Box
3 Page setup Area Printer/plotter Area Paper size Area Number of copies Area Plot area
4 Plot offset (origin set to printable area) Area
5 Plot scale Area
6 Plot style table (pen assignments) Area
7 Shaded viewport options Area
8 Plot options Area
9 Preview
10 Adding Plotters
11 The Plotter Manager Tool
12 Using Plot Styles
13 Adding a Plot Style

13: HATCHING DRAWINGS

1 Hatching
2 Hatch Patterns
3 Hatch Boundary
4 Hatching Drawings Using the Hatch Tool
5 Panels in the Hatch Creation Tab
6 Boundaries Panel Pattern Panel Properties Panel Origin Panel Options Panel Match Properties
7 Setting the Parameters for Gradient Pattern
8 Creating Annotative Hatch
9 Hatching the Drawing Using the Tool Palettes
10 Drag and Drop Method
11 Select and Place Method
12 Hatching Around Text, Dimensions, and Attributes

14: WORKING WITH BLOCKS

1 The Concept of Blocks Advantages of Using Blocks Drawing Objects for Blocks Converting Entities into a Block
2 Inserting Blocks
3 Creating and Inserting Annotative Blocks
4 Block Editor