AUTO CAD (2D + 3D)

Objectives:

The course objective is to teach the students the basic commands necessary for professional 2D CAD drawing, design, and drafting using a 2D drafting tool. Even students with no previous CAD experience can progress quickly through this course which is arranged in a sequence that is easy to understand. Participants will learn CAD fundamentals and the capabilities in 2D drawing. The software used for this course will be AutoCAD.

Expected Learning Outcome:

• Navigate the interface comfortably
• Use the fundamental features and precision drafting tools in AutoCAD to develop accurate technicaldrawings.
• Present drawings in a detailed and visually impressive manner

Course Justification:

After completing the course students can be employed as a draughts-man in

• Architectural firms
• Manufacturing units
• Engineering services outsourcing firms.

Books to be given:

• Foundation CADD reference guide Volume 1
• Workbook (Civil/ Mechanical/ Electrical)

AutoCAD 2D:

• Creating Blocks
• Dynamic blocks
• Parameters
• Creating, managing and extracting attributes
• Measuring tools
• Slide creation
• Running Scripts
• Creating compound documents with OLE
• External references
• AutoCAD Design Center
• Tool palettes
• Explode the drawing
• Plotting the drawings
• Markup
• Publish

AutoCAD 3D

• Understand and use Viewpoint and UCS
• Wireframe Modeling
• Solid Modeling