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Training Course Summary:

The purpose of this course is to give the delegate a basic understanding of AutoCAD terminology, concepts and commands. The course will include official courseware and hands on exercises.

Who Should Attend:

The delegate should have an understanding of basic drawing techniques or to be able to read drawings. The delegate should also have a basic understanding of an appropriate windows operating system.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Objectives
On completion of this course, delegates will have a good understanding of:

• Understand the basic concepts of AutoCAD
• Be able to use simple drawing commands and modifiers
• Print drawings to scale
• Import and export drawings to other formats


Contents and Topic List

Drawing Setup
• Starting AutoCAD
• Navigating around AutoCAD
• Open/Saving drawings
• Create new drawings
• Layers
• Colours/line types
• Limits
• Create a template

Basic Modifiers
• Extend and trimming
• Erasing
• Fillet and chamfer
• Move, copy, rotate, and scale
• Change object properties

Basic Drawing Techniques
• Drawing simple shapes
• Creating various texts
• Creating dimensions
• Creating different hatch patterns
• Creating and inserting Blocks
• Object snaps
• Polar snaps
• Snaps, grids and Ortho
• Associative dimensioning

Drawing Utilities
• Design Centre
• Purge and rename
• Copy and paste to multiple drawings
• Printing
• Basic configuration