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