2D DESIGNING

INTRODUCTION TO AUTOCAD

• History, Introduction (Applications and relevance in design and manufacturing industries)
• Exploring GUI
• Workspaces
• Co-ordinate systems
• Display control

FILE MANAGEMENT

• New
• Qnew
• Open
• Save
• Save as
• Close
• Exit/Quit

DRAWING SETTINGS

• Units
• Limits

DRAFTING SETTINGS

• Ortho
• Polar
• Grid
• Snap
• Polar Tracking
• Object snap
• Dynamic
• Inputs
• Quick Properties
• Selection Cycling

DRAWING TOOLS

• Line
• Circle
• Arc
• Ellipse
• Donut
• Polygon
• Rectangle
• Point
• Multiline
• Pline
• Spline
• Xline
• Ray
• Wipeout
• Revision cloud

MODIFY TOOLS

• Erase
• Oops
• Undo
• Redo
• Explode
• Move
• Copy
• Rotate
• Mirror
• Offset
• Array
• Align
• Scale
• Stretch
• Lengthen
• Trim
• Extend
• Break
• Join
• Chamfer
• Fillet
• Blend curves
• Divide
• Measure
• Point Style
• Mlstyle
• Mledit
• Pedit
• Splinedit
• Edit Array
• Grip Editing

DISPLAY CONTROL

• Zoom
• Pan
• Redraw
• Regen
• Clean Screen

OBJECT PROPERTIES

• Property window
• Color command
• Linetype command
• Ltscale
• Line weight command
• Match Properties command
• Transparency
• List

LAYER MANAGEMENT

• Layer Properties Manager
• Layer command
• Layer state command
• Layers and Layer Properties
• New Property Filter
• New Group Filter
• Layer State Manager
• Layer management option
  • New layer
  • New layer frozen VP in all viewports
  • Delete layer
  • Set current
  • Sort
  • Column order
  • Status
• Layer list option
• Search for layer

ANNOTATION TOOLS

• Dimension
• Dimension style manager
• DIMREASSOCIATE command
• DIMINSPECT command
• DIMJOGLINE command
• UPDATE command
• Linear
• Aligned
• Radial dimension
• Diameter
• Center Mark
• Angular dimension
• Arc length dimension
• Baseline and continued dimension
• Tolerance
• Linear dimension
• Dimension Space command
• Dimension Break
• Quick dimension command
• Jogged radius
• Ordinate dimensions
• Dimension style manager
• Centre
• Mark
• Centreline
• Dimension Style
• Dimension Edit
• Leader
• Qleader command
• Mleader (multi leader command)
• Mleader style
• add leader
• Align leader command
• Leaderlines
• Collect Leader
• Text annotation
• Text command
• Style command
• Mtext command
• Scaletext
• Spell
• Table
• Tablestyle
• Tabledit

HATCHING OBJECTS

• Introduction: Purpose for hatching in drawing
• Understanding hatch pattern
• Hatch command
• Hatch and gradient option
• HATCHEDIT command
• Island concept in hatching, fill command
• Gradient

OBJECT SELECTION METHODS

• Select
• Qselect
• Filter
• Block command
• Block editor
• Base command
• Wblock
• Dynamic blocks
• Insert
• Divide command
• Attribute (Attdef, Attedit, Eattedit, Attdisp, Attdia, Attext, Eattext)

PARAMETRIC MODELING

• Geometric Constraint
• Dimensional Constraint
• Design Centre
• Tool
• Palette

ISOMETRIC VIEW DRAWINGS

• Hyperlink
• Data Link
• Group

CLIPBOARD

• Copy
• copy base
• Copy link
• Paste clip
• Paste special
• Paste block
• Paste original

EXTERNAL REFERENCES

• XREF introduction
• XREF command
• REFEDIT command
• Xbind command
• Etransmit

LAYOUT PLOT AND PUBLISH

• Introduction to layout
• PAGESETUP command
• VPORTS command
• MSPACE command
• PSPACE command
• PLOT command
• PUBLISH command
• Publish to Web
• Introduction to plotting
• Layout
• Viewports
• Mview
• Page setup,
• Plot Styles
• Plot

3D MODELING

GETTING STARTED WITH 3D

• Starting 3D model in AutoCAD
• Types of 3D models
• Visual style manager
  • Wireframe, surface, solid models
• Conventions followed in AutoCAD
• Changing the view point
• Tools in 3D
• Creating 3D faces
• Creating predefined solid primitives like cone, sphere, cylinder, helix, wedge, polysolid etc.
• 2D hide-occluded lines
• Controlling the settings of edges, controlling the face display, backgrounds
• Creating complex solid models
• Checking interference in solids
• Dynamic UCS, Defining the UCS using view cube and ribbon
• Creating extruded solids, along normal, along a direction, along a path
• Extruding with a taper angle
• Creating swept solids
• Alignment, base point, scale, twist
• Creating lofted solids
• Join multiple edges, guide

EDITING SOLID MODELS

• Filleting
• Chamfering
• Mirroring
• Creating arrays in 3D space
• Aligning solid models
• Converting surface to solids
• Converting objects to surfaces
• Slicing solid models
• Creating the cross section of solids
• Editing faces of solid models
• Generating drawing views of a solid model
• Generating section views
• Adding material to a drawing
• Assembly of the mechanical parts

SURFACE MODELLING

• Creating wireframe elements
• Spline CV, spline fit, spline free hand
• Creating surface by using profiles
• Creating a revolved, loft, sweep surface
• Creating surface from another surface
• Patch surface, offset surface
• Editing surfaces: trimming and untrimming, extending and sculpting the surfaces
• NURBS surfaces
• Performing surface analysis: analysis curvature, analysis draft, zebra analysis

ANALYSIS, RENDERING AND MOTION

• Rendering basics
• The render panels
• Calculating the mass properties of solid model
• Concepts of light
• Working with lights
• User created lights
  • Point light
  • Spot light
  • Weblight
  • Distant light
  • Sunlight
• Using luminaire objects
• Controlling the location and properties of light
• Working with material
• Applying materials to object and faces
• Creating and modifying materials
• Using texture maps
• Procedural maps
• Modifying map properties
• Creating the camera
• Rendering with a background
• Creating animation
• Using show motion for presentation, playing the animation

LAYOUT PLOT AND PUBLISH

• Introduction to layout
• PAGESETUP command
• VPORTS command
• MSPACE command
• PSPACE command
• PLOT command
• PUBLISH command
• Publish to Web
• Introduction to plotting
• Layout
• Viewports
• Mview
• Page setup,
• Plot Styles
• Plot

DRAWING PRACTICES AND PROJECTS

GETTING STARTED WITH 3DS MAX

• Basics of 3D modeling
• Project workflow
  • Setting up your scene
  • Modeling objects
  • Using materials from material editor
  • Placing lights and cameras
  • Animating your scene
  • Rendering your scene
• The 3ds max interface
• Managing files
• Importing, merging, replacing and externally referencing scenes
• Using the asset browser
• Startup files and default
• The initialization files
• Backing up and archiving scenes
• Crash recovery system

VIEWING AND NAVIGATING IN 3D SPACE

• General viewport concepts
• Home grid : views based on the world coordinate axes
• Understanding the views: axonometric or perspective
• Setting viewport layout
• Controlling viewport rendering
• Controlling display performance
• Using standard view navigation
• Zooming panning and orbiting views
• View cube
• Steering wheels
• Using walkthrough navigation
• Navigate camera and light views
• Progressive display/ adaptive degradation
• View handling commands
• Controlling object display

SELECTING OBJECTS

• Introducing object selection
• Basics of selecting object
• Selecting by region
• Using select by name
• Using named selection sets
• Using selection filters
• Selecting with track view
• Selecting with schematic view
• Freezing and unfreezing objects
• Hiding and unhiding objects by selection
• Hiding and unhiding objects by category
• Isolate selection
• Introduction to sub object selection
• Selection commands
• Edit commands

OBJECT PROPERTIES

• Object properties dialog panel
• Rename object tool
• Custom attributes
• Parameter collector
• Expression techniques

CREATING GEOMETRY

• Basics of creating and modifying objects
• Geometric primitives
• Architectural objects
• Mental ray object
• Shapes
• Compound objects
• Systems

MOVING ROTATING AND SCALING OBJECTS

• Using transforms
• Transform commands
• Transform coordinates and coordinate center
• Transform tools
• Using modifiers
• World space modifiers
• Object space modifiers

CREATRING COPIES AND ARRAYS

• Overview of copies, instances and references
• Techniques for cloning objects
• Arraying object
• Mirroring objects
• Using the spacing tool

SURFACE MODELLING

• Working at the sub object level
• Subdivision surfaces
• Soft selection rollout
• Collapse utility
• Graphite modeling tools
• Editable mesh surface
• Editable poly surface
• Patch objects
• NURBS modeling
• Tools for low polygon modeling

PRECISION AND DRAWING AIDS

• Tools for precision
• Using units
• Using grids
• Alignment
• Using snaps
• Helpers
• Drawing assistants

SPACE WARPS AND PARTICLE SYSTEM

• Space warp objects
• Particle systems

ANIMATION

• Animation concepts and methods
• Working with controllers
• Animation controllers
• Animation constraints
• Wire parameters
• Hierarchies and kinematics
• Track view
• Motion mixer
• Saving and loading animation
• Animation utilities

LIGHTS AND CAMERAS

• Lights
• Lighting analysis assistant
• Cameras

MATERIAL EDITOR, MATERIALS AND MAPS

• Designing materials
• Material editor
• Material/map browser
• Type of materials
• Material, mapping and vertex color utilities

RENDERING

• Render setup dialog
• Rendered frame window
• R5ender output file dialog
• View image file
• Rendering commands
• Common panel
• Renderers
• Rendering elements separately
• Render to texture
• Rendering previews and grabbing viewports
• Network rendering
• Batch rendering
• Command line rendering

EFFECTS AND ENVIRONMENT

• Environment and effects dialog
• Rendering effects
• Environment and atmosphere effects
• VIDEO POST
• Video post queue
• Video post status bar/view controls
• Troubleshooting video post
• Useful video post procedures
• Video post toolbar
• Filter events
• Layer events

WORKING WITH AUTOCAD, REVIT AND AUTOCAD ARCHITECTURE

• File handling commands
• File handling utilities
• Geometry file formats
• Image file formats
• External references to object and scenes
• Scene explorer
• Organizational tools
• Scene states
• Schematic view
• Workspaces
• State sets
• Container
• Groups and assemblies
• File handling commands
• File handling utilities
• Internet access: which can locate locally or network stored materials, textures, geometry
• that can be dropped into workspace
• Geometry file formats
• Image file formats
• Scene explorer
• Schematic view
• Using layers to organize a scene

AUTODESK CIVIL VIEW

• Geometry import
• Swept object styles
• Object placement styles
• Road marking object styles
• Rail object styles
• Building object styles
• Feature interpretation style
• Sight checker tool
• Traffic import
• Initializing civil view
• Civil view object categories
• Civil view parametric and static objects
• Civil view preferences
• Civil view explorer
• Civil view geometry import panels
• Creating objects in civil view
• Civil view object and material libraries
• Traffic import panels
• Managing imported traffic data
• Dynamic markers
• Wildcards and regular expressions
• Tips and tricks with civil view
• Troubleshooting
• ADOBE PREMIERE PRO

GETTING STARTED WITH PREMIERE PRO

• Introduction to post production
• Concepts of editing & Compositing
• Explore premiere pro panels
• Importing files
• Linear & non Linear editing
• Editing tools & software
• Stabilizing the footage
• Lumetri curve controls
• Concepts of effects
• Effect controls and keying
• Animating the text and titles
• Plug-ins
• Working with images
• Tilt shift
• Zoom transition, dolly zoom, panning
• Working with animations
• Keying & other compositing methods
• Speed, duration & Timing
• File formats
• Tools & Menu
• Crop, Slide, Roll
• Masking
• Video effects
• Color grading
• Video transitions
• Working on manual transitions
• Video rendering
• Working with audio
• Reduce noise and reverbs
• Exporting the video