AutoCAD 2009 - Intermediate

Prerequisites:

You'll have attended the AutoCAD: Essentials Training course or have the same relevant experience, creating and editing basic AutoCAD objects.

Course Description:

This courseincorporates the features, commands and techniques for becoming more productive when creating, annotating, and printing drawings with AutoCAD. This intermediate-level course continues to build on the basic concepts of the AutoCAD Introduction course.

Hands-on exercises throughout the AutoCAD Training course explore how to create 2D production drawings. The exercises are provided in both a printed format as well as an onscreen format that can be viewed next to AutoCAD.

This course includes the following modules:

Drawing Objects

• Multilines
• Revision Clouds
• Wipeouts
• Boundaries
• Regions

Manipulating Objects & Data

• Using Quick Select
• Purging Objects
• Point Objects
• Dividing and Measuring Objects
• Geometry Calculator

Dimensioning and Annotation

• Introduction to Annotation Scaling
• Controlling Annotation Scale
• Using Multileaders
• Dimensioning
• Centre Marks
• Ordinate Dimensions
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances
• Dimension Styles & Overrides

Reusable Content

• Using design center
• Creating custom tool palettes
• Organising tool palettes
• Sharing tool palettes
• Using external references
• Managing external references
• Referencing non-native file types

Blocks & Attributes

• Working with blocks
• Creating attributes
• Editing attributes

Dynamic Blocks

• Using dynamic Blocks
• Adding parameters to dynamic blocks
• Adding actions to dynamic blocks
• Using parameter sets
• Creating dynamic blocks

Layer Management and Best Practices

• Working with Layer Filters
• Using the layer states manager
• Using layer standards

Layouts & Views

• Creating Layouts
• Modifying layouts & using page setups
• Creating Layout viewports
• Working with layout viewports
• Controlling object visibility in layout viewports

Plotting

• Working with plotter configuration files
• Creating & Applying
• Plot style tables
• Publishing drawings

Introduction to Sheet Sets

• Creating sheet sets
• Working with sheet sets
• Setting sheet set properties
• Using fields in sheet sets
• Using attributes in sheet sets
• Publishing
• Transmitting & archiving Sheet Sets

Working with Tables

• Working with table styles
• Creating & editing tables
• Creating advanced tables
• Extracting attributes to tables
• Exporting & importing tables
• Creating tables linked to external data