This e-learning course progressively introduces the features and best practices needed to design 2D technical drawings with AutoCAD 2024. The downloadable files allow you to complete numerous exercises to put the knowledge acquired into practice.
Objectives
By the end of the training course, the participant will be able to design 2D technical drawings with AutoCAD 2024 by applying best practices.
Is it for you ?
This e-learning course is intended for anyone (architects, CAD technicians, industrial drafters, electrical, civil, or mechanical engineers, etc.) who wishes to train in 2D technical drawing with AutoCAD for professional purposes.
Prerequisite
No prior knowledge of AutoCAD is required. Previous experience with the software can help you progress faster.
Your benefits
Content
AutoCAD 2024 – Designing 2D Technical Drawings (with corrected exercises)
Presentation of AutoCAD
- Interface overview
- Creating a new drawing, using a template
- Opening and saving a drawing
- Zoom and pan
- Exercise: Zoom and pan
- Solution: Zoom and pan
- Executing a command
- Defining units
- Defining options
Introduction to drawing
- Selecting objects
- Using grips to modify an object
- Similar and quick selection
- Drawing a line
- Drawing aids
- Status bar
- Grid and snap
- Dynamic input
- Ortho mode
- Polar tracking
- Object snaps
- Object snap tracking
- Exercise: Object snaps
- Solution: Object snaps
- Cartesian coordinates
- Polar coordinates
- Managing the UCS
- Exercise: Coordinates
- Solution: Coordinates
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Managing object properties
- Object drawing commands
- Line and polyline
- Circle
- Arc
- Rectangle
- Polygon
- Ellipse or elliptical arc
- Hatches
- Boundary
- Spline
- Ray and Xline
- Divide and measure
- Wipeout
- Donut
- Revision cloud
- Exercise: Drawing a part
- Solution: Drawing a part
Measurement tools
- Object modification commands
- Move
- Copy
- Exercise: Moving and copying objects
- Solution: Moving and copying objects
- Stretch
- Rotate
- Mirror
- Scale
- Trim
- Extend
- Offset
- Exercise: Drawing a part
- Solution: Drawing a part
- Fillet
- Chamfer
- Rectangular array
- Polar array
- Erase
- Explode
- Modification commands
- Align
- Break
- Join
- Overkill (delete duplicates)
- Exercise: Drawing a camera
- Solution: Drawing a camera
- Exercise: Drawing a piece of furniture
- Solution: Drawing a piece of furniture
Organizing a drawing
- Creating layers
- Using layers
- Linetypes
- Linetype scale
- Lineweights
- Managing layers
- Creating a template
- Importing layers
- Exercise: Creating a template
- Solution: Creating a template
- Layer property filters
- Layer states
Annotating your drawing
- Inserting text
- Creating and applying text styles
- Text layers
- Inserting leaders
- Modifying leaders
- Modifying leader styles
- Inserting dimensions
- Modifying dimension styles (lines and text)
- Modifying dimension styles (units)
- Dimension layers
- Inserting quick dimensions
- Other dimension commands
- Using associative dimensions
- Inserting a table
- Exercise: Dimensioning a mechanical part
- Solution: Dimensioning a mechanical part
- Exercise: Dimensioning a house
- Solution: Dimensioning a house
- Inserting a field
External references
- Inserting an image
- Inserting a PDF file
- Attaching an external reference
- Managing external references
Using blocks
- Definitions
- Inserting a block
- Creating a block
- Managing blocks
- Defining attributes
- Exercise: Creating a title block
- Solution: Creating a title block
- Modifying a block
- Using parametric constraints
- Inserting a dynamic block
- Creating a dynamic block
- Exercise: Creating a dynamic door block
- Solution: Creating a dynamic door block
- Creating a block library
- Creating a tool palette
- Counting blocks
- Extracting data
Sharing and printing a drawing
- Printing without scale
- Creating and configuring a layout for printing
- Inserting viewports
- Scaling views
- Managing linetype scales
- Managing layers in viewports
- Inserting a title block
- Importing a layout
- Annotative objects
- Printing to PDF
- Printing multiple layouts
- Exercise: Reproducing a layout and printing to PDF
- Solution: Reproducing a layout and printing to PDF
- Exporting, transferring, or sharing a drawing
- Configuring sheet sets
Collaboration
- Other advanced functions
- Adding a geographic location
- Purging a drawing
- Comparing files
- Customizing command aliases
- Supplementary book
- This module offers you access to digital course materials.
AutoCAD 2024 – From fundamentals to detailed presentation through professional projects
- Introduction
- Documents
- The work environment
- Drawing
- Exercise 1: Drawing office furniture
- Tables
- Fields
- Exercise 2: Creating a floor area table
- Object management
- Exercise 3: Creating a distribution
- Parametric drawing
- Display management
- Layer management
- Exercise 4: Organizing the project with layers
- Library elements
- Exercise 5: Creating/using library elements
- External references
- Exercise 6: Using external references
- Raster images
- Annotation
- Leader lines
- Exercise 7: Annotating the plan
- Exercise 8: Annotating the plate
- Inquiries
- Drawing presentation
- Exercise 9: Laying out the plan
- Exercise 10: Laying out the plate
- Annotative objects and annotation scale
- Exchange files
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