AutoCAD 201 Green Belt

Who is this course for?

This AutoCAD Training course is designed for the experienced AutoCAD user who wants to learn more about AutoCAD and enhance their skills.

Objectives

This intermediate AutoCAD Training course is designed for the experienced AutoCAD user who requires additional training. It incorporates 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.

Prerequisites

You will have attended the AutoCAD 101 course or have the same relevant experience, creating and editing basic AutoCAD objects.

Benefits

You will learn how to use the powerful tools and techniques for drawing, dimensioning, and printing 2D drawings.

Drawing Objects

Creating and editing multilines
Creating revision clouds
Wipeout Objects
Boundaries
Regions

Manipulating Objects and Data

Selecting objects with quick select
Purging objects
Working with point objects
Dividing and Measuring Objects
Using QuickCalc for Performing Calculations

Template Drawing Creation

Creating drawing templates

Dimensioning and Annotation

Introduction to annotation Scaling
Controlling annotation scale
Working with text
Using multileaders
Dimensioning
Creating center marks
Creating ordinate imensions
Creating geometric dimensions & tolerances
Working with dimension substyles & 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