Course Title: AutoCAD2019

Course Duration: 3 days onsite/online

Prerequisites:
Users should have a basic understanding of Drawing standards and AutoCAD.

Overview:
This course provides new users with comprehensive training in AutoCAD 2018. The lessons cover
features, commands, and techniques for creating, editing, and printing drawings with AutoCAD 2018

Course Contents

#Day 1

Introduction

What you should know before watching this course

1. Exploring the User Interface

Using the ribbon, Changing workspaces, Using the status bar, Using the drawing tabs, Using the
navigation bar, Using the ViewCube, File navigation dialog boxes, Drafting Settings dialog box,
Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)

2. Managing Files and Options

Opening, saving, and closing files, Save Opening, saving, and closing files, Setting drawing units,
Converting drawing units, Editing and managing options, Using template files–DWT

3. Navigating Drawings

Using Zoom commands, Using pan, Using the mouse, Using the ViewCube, Using the navigation
bar, selection methods, Model and layout

4. Drawing Objects

Lines, Save Lines, Circles, Arcs, Ellipses, Polylines and splines, Rectangles and polygons, Points
and donuts

Note: The suggested class duration is a guideline. Topics and duration may be modified by the instructor based
upon the knowledge and skill level of the class participants.
Selecting objects, Using Move and Copy, Using Scale and Rotate, Creating and using arrays, Using
Offset and Mirror, Using Trim and Extend, Using Stretch and Lengthen, Using Break and Join, Using
grips and grip editing, Using boundaries, Using Fillet and Chamfer, Divide and Measure, Editing
Polylines and Splines

6. Drawing Accurately
Using Grid and Snap, Working with coordinates, Using Polar Tracking, Dynamic Input, Using object
snaps, Using object-snap tracking

#Day 2

7. Hatching and Gradients

Using the Hatch command, Using the Gradient command,
Editing hatches and gradients,
8. Using Text
Working with text styles, Single-line text, Multiline Text (MTEXT),
Settings for changing text to MTEXT (txt2mtxt), Selecting text objects,
Justification, Numbered and lettered list formatting, Uniform line
spacing.

9. Dimensioning
Working with dimension styles, Using dimensions, Editing dimensions,
Breaking dimensions, Spacing dimensions, Continue dimensions,
Baseline dimensions, Quick dimensioning, Using multileaders

10. Object and Layer Properties

Working with object properties, Changing the linetype scale, Using
Hide and Isolate, New layers and the layer dropdown menu, Using
the layer tools, Other layer tools, Grouping objects,

11. Block, Attributes and Tables

Creating and using blocks, Redefining block definitions,Using the
Explode command, Using WBLOCK, Working with attribute
definitions, Creating a block with attributes, Working with table
styles, Designing a table, Adding fields to a table

#Day 3

12. External References

Working with XREFs, Attaching and overlaying XREFs, Clipping XREFs,

Editing XREFs, XBIND

Note: The suggested class duration is a guideline. Topics and duration may be modified by the instructor based
upon the knowledge and skill level of the class participants.
13. Layouts and Annotation

Creating a layout and adding a viewport, Locking viewports, Freezing

viewport layers, Adding a title block, Using annotative text styles,
Using annotative dimensions, Using revision clouds,

14. Creating Output

Page setups, Plotting from Model and Layout tabs, Packaging with
eTransmit, Batch plotting, export to different file formats

15. Using PDFs in AutoCAD

Setting a PDF layer, Using the PDFIMPORT command, SHX text

recognition with the PDFSHXTEXT command, Using the PDFATTACH
command

Note: The suggested class duration is a guideline. Topics and duration may be modified by the instructor based
upon the knowledge and skill level of the class participants.