AutoCAD 2D & 3D Drawings and Practical Projects course

Course objectives:
The course intends to familiarize participants with the concepts and application of the essential function of AutoCAD Civil 3D and the outcomes of the course shall include:

• Create, edit, analyze surfaces and view surfaces in 3D
• Create horizontal alignments, profiles, corridors and cross-sections for roads
• Calculate quantities for earthworks and layer works
• Create sheets for plan, profiles and cross sections
• Create intersection and road widening
• Create grading solutions from multiple objects
• Create setting out points

Module 1:Introduction and getting started

AutoCAD user interface

Navigation tools

Understanding Co-ordinate system

Limits and display units

Saving settings as drawing template

Practice Question

Getting Familiar with AutoCAD

Module 2:Creating Drawings

•         Making lines
•         Making lines using polar coordinates
•         Circle
•         Arcs
•         Ellipses
•         Rectangle
•         Polygons
•         Introduction to polyline and spline
•         Points and revision clouds
•         Construction line and ray
•         Practice Question
•         Creating Drawings

Module 3:Modifying Drawing

•         Making selection sets
•         Move and Copy command
•         Rotate command
•         Offset command
•         Mirror and Scale
•         Trim and extend
•         Erase, Explode and overkill
•         Stretch command
•         Break and Join
•         Fillet and chamfer
•         Practice Question
•         Modifying drawing

Module 4:Status bar toggles

•         Grid and Snap
•         Polar and Ortho mode
•         Dynamic input
•         Simple object snaps
•         More object snaps
•         From snap
•         More status bar options
•         Practice Question
•         Status bar toggles

Module 5:Drawing Tools

•         Rectangular array
•         Polar array
•         Path array
•         Divide and measure
•         Using multifunction grips
•         Align command
•         Finding Distance, Radius, angle and co-ordinates
•         Finding area
•         Making Isometric drawing
•         Centerline and center mark tools
•         Region and Boolean operations
•         Practice Question
•         Drawing Tools

Module 6:Drawing properties

•         Assigning object color and Linetype
•         Assigning lineweight and transparency
•         Checking object properties
•         Modifying properties using CHPROP command
•         Model space viewports
•         Creating named views
•         Practice Question
•         Drawing properties

Module 7:Hatch and gradient

•         Creating basic hatches
•         Set origin and Associative hatch
•         Using advance hatch features
•         Boundary and wipeout features
•         creating gradients
•         Practice Question
•         Hatch and gradient

Module 8:Managing drawing with layers

•         Creating and assigning layers
•         using layer properties manager
•         Working with layer states and Layer walk
•         Working with layer filters
•         Laymrg and laydel commands
•         Quick access layer tools
•         Hiding and isolating objects
•         Practice Question
•         Managing drawing with layers