AutoCad 2013 Level 1

What’s included?

• Authorized Courseware
• Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
• Hands-on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
• Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing- (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
• Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
• Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation

Curriculum

Getting Started with AutoCAD 2012
• Concepts
• Coordinate Systems
• The CAD Database
• Angles in AutoCAD
• Draw True Size
• Plot to Scale

Starting AutoCAD
• The AutoCAD Drawing Editor
• Workspaces • Beginning a Drawing
• Graphics Area
• Command Line
• Palettes
• Toolbars
• Application Menu and Quick Access Toolbar
• Pull-Down Menus
• Dialog Boxes and Palettes
• Shortcut Menus
• Screen (Side) Menu
• Digitizing Tablet Menu
• Command Entry Using the Keyboard
• Accelerator Keys (Control Key Sequences)
• Special Key Functions
• Mouse buttons
• Command Entry
• Methods for Entering Commands
• Using the ‘Command Tables’
• Command Entry Methods Practice
• AutoCAD Drawing Aids
• Coordinate Display (Coords)
• Status Bar
• Drawing Aids
• Function Keys
• AutoCAD Text Window
• Model Space and Layouts
• Customizing the AutoCAD Screen
• Toolbars
• Ribbon
• Clean Screen
• Communication Center
• Tray Settings
• Command Line
• Options

Working with Files
• AutoCAD Drawing Files
• Naming Drawing Files
• Beginning and Saving an AutoCAD Drawing
• Accessing File Commands
• File navigation dialog box Functions
• Windows Right-Click Shortcut Menus
• AutoCAD File Commands
• AutoCAD Backup Files
• Drawing Recovery
• AutoCAD Drawing File Management
• Using other File Formats

Draw Command Concepts AutoCAD Objects Locating the Draw Commands Coordinate Entry
• Coordinate Formats and Types
• Coordinate Formats
• Coordinate Types
• Typical Combinations
• Three Methods of Coordinate Input
• Mouse Input
• Dynamic Input
• Command Line Input
• Using the Three Coordinate Input Methods
• Line
• Circle
• Using Mouse Input
• Using Dynamic Input
• Using Command Line Input
• Direct Distance entry and Angle Override
• Dynamic Input Settings
• Polar Tracking and Polar Snap
• Polar Tracking
• Polar Tracking with Direct Distance Entry
• Polar Tracking Override
• Polar Snap
• Drawing Lines Using Polar Tracking
• Using Polar Tracking and Grid Snap
• Using Polar Tracking and Dynamic Input
• Using Polar Tracking, Polar Snap, and Dynamic Input

Selection Sets
• Modify Command Concepts
• Selection Sets
• Selection Set Options
• Select
• Noun/Verb Syntax
• Selection Sets Practice
• Using Erase
• Using Move
• Using Copy
• Helpful Commands
• Help and Search
• Oops and U
• Undo and redo
• Mredo and Regen

Basic Drawing Setup
• Steps for Basic Drawing Setup
• Startup Options
• Drawing Setup Options
• Start from Scratch
• Template
• Table of Start from Scratch Imperial Settings
• Table of Start from Scratch Metric Settings
• Wizard
• Setup Commands
• Units
• Keyboard Input of Units Values
• Limits
• Snap
• Grid
• Dsettings
• Using Snap and Grid
• Introduction to Layouts and Printing
• Model Tab and Layout Tabs
• Why Set Up Layouts Before Drawing
• Printing and Plotting
• Setting Layout Options and Plot Option

Object Snap and Object Snap Tracking
• CAD Accuracy
• Object Snap
• Object Snap Modes
• Acquisition Object Snap Modes
• Object Snap Modifiers
• OSNAP Single Point Selection
• OSNAP Running Mode
• Running Object Snap Modes
• Running Object Snap Toggles
• Object Snap Options
• Object Snap Tracking
• To Use Object Snap Tracking
• Object Snap Tracking with Polar Tracking
• Object Snap Tracking settings
• OSNAP Applications
• OSNAP Practice

Draw Commands I
• Draw commands – Simple and Complex
• Draw Command Access
• Coordinate Entry Input Methods
• Commands
• Line
• Circle
• Arc
• Use Arcs or Circles?
• Point
• Ddptype
• Pline
• Pline Arc Segments

Modify Commands I
• Concepts
• Commands
• Erase and Move
• Rotate and Scale
• Stretch and Lengthen
• Trim and Extend
• Break and Join
• Copy and Mirror
• Offset and Array
• Fillet and Chamfer

Viewing Commands
• Concepts
• Zoom and Pan with the Mouse Wheel
• Commands
• Zoom and Realtime (RTzoom)
• Pan
• Zoom and Pan with Undo and Redo
• Scroll Bars
• View and Dsviewer
• Viewres and Ucsicon
• Viewgo and Navswheel
• Qvdrawing and Vports

Layers and Object Properties
• Concepts
• Assigning colors, Linetypes, and Lineweights
• Object properties
• Plot Styles
• Layers and Layer Properties Controls
• Layer Control Drop-Down List
• Layer Properties Manager Layer List
• Color, Linetype, Lineweight, and other Properties
• Layer Filters
• Displaying an Object’s Properties and Visibility Settings
• Laymcur
• Layerp
• Layerstate
• Object-Specific Properties Controls
• Linetype • Lweight
• Color
• True Color and Color Books
• Setbylayer
• Controlling Linetype Scale
• Ltscale
• Celtscale
• Changing Object Properties
• Object Properties Toolbar
• Properties
• Matchprop
• Layer Tools

Advanced Drawing Setup
• Steps for Drawing Setup
• Using and Creating Template Drawings
• Using Template Drawings
• Table of Standard AutoCAD Templates
• Creating Template Drawings
• Additional Advanced Drawing Setup Concepts
• Drawing Setup Using Annotative Objects

Layouts and Viewports
• Concepts
• Paper Space and Model Space
• Layouts
• Viewports
• Layouts and Viewports Example
• Guidelines for Using Layouts and Viewports
• Creating and Setting up Layouts
• Layoutwizard
• Layout
• Inserting Layouts withAutoCAD DesignCenter
• Setting up the Layout
• Using Viewports in paper Space
• Vports
• Qvlayout
• Scaling the Display of Viewport Geometry
• Locking Viewport Geometry
• Linetype Scale in Viewports-PSLTSCALE
• Vpmax, Vpminand Scalelistedit
• Advanced Applications of Paper space viewports

Printing and Plotting
• Concepts
• Typical Steps to Plotting, Printing, Plotting, and Saving Page Setups
• Plot and –Plot
• Viewplotdetails and Pagessetup
• Using the Plot Dialog box & Page Setup Manager
• Preview
• Plotting to Scale
• Standard Paper Sizes
• Calculating the Drawing Scale Factor
• Guidelines for Plotting Model Space to Scale
• Guidelines for Plotting Layouts to Scale
• Tables of Limits Settings
• Mechanical Table of Limits Settings for ANSI Sheet Sizes
• Architectural Table of Limits Settings for Architectural Sheet Sizes
• Metric Table of Limits Settings for Metric (ISO) Sheet Sizes
• Metric Table of Limtis Settings for ANSI Sheet Sizes
• Civil Table of Limits Settings for ANSI Sheet Sizes

Draw Commands II
• Concepts
• Commands
• Xline, Ray, Polygon and Rectang
• Donut, Spline, Ellipse, Divide and Measure
• Mline and Mlstyle
• Multiline Style Dialog box
• New Multiline Style Dialog box
• Editing Multilines
• Sketch
• The SKPOLY Variable
• Solid, Boundary, Region, Wipeout and Revcloud

Modify Commands II
• Concepts
• Commands
• Considerations for changing Basic Porperties of Objects
• Properties, DBLCLKEDIT, Matchprop
• Object Properties Toolbar
• Chprop, Change, 1quick Properties
• Explode, Align
• Find/Replace in the Text Formatting Editor
• Scaletext, Justifytext, Qtext, Textfill
• Substituting Fonts • Text Fields and Tables
• Text fields, Field, Updatefield
• Creating and Editing Tables
• Table, Tablestyle, Tabledit
• The Table Editor
• Editing tables with Grips
• Editing Tables with the Porperties Palette
• Importing and Exporting Tables
• Table Breaks
• Text Fields and Calculations in Tables
• Text Attributes

Grip Editing
• Concepts
• Grips Features
• Activating Grips on Objects
• Cold and Hot Grips
• Grip Editing Options
• Shift to Turn on ORTHO
• Auxiliary Grid
• Editing Dimensions
• Guidelines for Using Grips
• Grips Settings
• Point Specificaiton Precedence
• More Grips

Blocks, DesignCenter, and Tool Palettes
• Concepts
• Commands
• Block
• Block Color, Linetype, and Lineweight Settings
• Insert, Minsert, Explode, -Insert with *
• Xplode, Wblock, Base
• Redefining blocks and the Block Editor
• Bedit, Blocks Search Path
• Purge, Rename and Setbylayer
• DesignCenter
• Adcenter
• DesignCenter Options
• To Open a Drawing from DesignCenter
• To Insert a Block Using DesignCenter
• Resulting Scale Factors with Autoscale (Drag-andDrop) •
Tool Palettes
• Toolpalettes
• Creating and Managing Tool Palettes

Multiview Drawing
• Concepts
• Projection and Alignment of Views
• Using ORTHO and OSNAP to Draw Projection Lines
• Using Polar Tracking to Draw Projection Lines Aligned with OSNAP Points
• Using Xline and Ray for construction Lines
• Using Offset for Construction of Views
• Realignment of Views Using Polar Snap and Polar Tracking
• Using Construction Layers
• Using Linetypes • Drawing Hidden and Center Lines
• Managing Linetypes, Lineweights, and Colors
• Creating Fillets, Rounds, and Runouts
• Guidelines for Creating a Typical Three-View Drawing

Pictorial Drawings
• Concepts
• Types of Pictorial Drawings
• Pictorial Drawings Are 2D Drawings
• Isometric Drawing in AutoCAD
• Sanp
• Isometirc Ellipses
• Ellipse
• Creating an Isometric Drawing
• Dimensioning Isometric Drawings in AutoCAD
• Oblique Drawing In AutoCAD

Section Views
• Concepts
• Defining hatch patterns and hatch Boundaries
• Step for Creating a Section View Using the hatch Command
• Hatch
• Hatch and Gradient Dialog box – hatch Tab
• Selecting the Hatch Area
• Expanded Dialog box Options
• Gradient Tab
• –hatch command Line Options
• Annotative hatch Patterns
• Toolpalettes
• Creating Tool Palettes
• Editing hatch Patterns and Boundaries
• Hatchedit
• Using Grips with Hatch Patterns
• Using Trim with Hatch Patterns
• Object Selection Features of Hatch Patterns
• FILLMODE for Solid Hatch Fills
• Draworder and Texttofront
• Drawing Cutting Plane Lines

Auxiliary Views
• Concepts
• Constructing an Auxiliary View
• Setting up the Principal Views
• Using Snap Rotate and ORTHO
• Rotating SNAP Back to the Original Position
• Using Polar Tracking
• Using the Offset Command
• Using the Xline and Ray Commands
• Constructing Full Auxiliary Views

Dimensioning
• Concepts
• Dimension Drawing Commands
• Dimlinear, Dimaligned, and Dimbaseline
• Dimcontinue, Dimspace, and Dimjogline
• Dimdiameter, Dimradius, Dimjog and Dimarc
• Dimcenter, Dimangular, and Dimbreak
• Leader, Qleader and Annotation Tab
• Leader Line and Arrow Tab
• Mleader, Mleaderstyle and Mleaderedit
• Mleaderalign, Mleadercollect and Dimordinate
• Qdim and Tolerance
• Editing Feature Control Frames
• Basic Dimensions
• GDT-Related Dimension Variables
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Diminspect
• Editing Dimensions
• Grip Editing Dimensions
• Dimension Right-Click Menu
• Exploding Associative Dimensions
• Dimension Editing Commands
• Dimtedit, Dimedit and Properties
• Customizing Dimensioning Text
• Associative Dimenstions
• Dimreassociate, Dimdisassociate and Dimregen
• Dimensioning Variables Introduction

Dimension Styles and Variables
• Concepts
• Dimension Variables
• Dimension Styles
• Dimension Style Families
• Dimension Style Overrides
• Dimension Styles
• Dimstyle and Ddim
• –Dimstyle
• Dimension Variables
• Changing Dimension Variables Using the Dialog Box Method
• Lines Tab (Dimension Lines & Extension Line)
• Symbols and Arrows Tab (Arrowheads & Other)
• Text Tab (Appearance, Placement & Alignment)
• Fit Tab (Scale for Dimension, Fit Options, Text Placement and Fine Tuning)
• Primary Units Tab (Linear Dimensions, Measurement Scale, Zero Suppression, and Angular Dimensions)
• Alternate Units Tab (Alternate Units Section, Zero Suppression, and Placement Section)
• Tolerances Tab (Tolerance Format, and Alternate Unit)
• Changing Dimension Variables Using Command Line Format
• DIM (Variable name)
• Associative Dimensions
• Using Setup Wizards and Template Drawings
• Modifying Existing Dimensions
• Modifying a Dimension Style (Properties)
• Creating Dimension Style Overrides and using Update (Update, Dimoverride and Matchprop)
• Dimension right-Click Menu
• Guidelines for Non-Annotative Dimensioning in AutoCAD
• Dimensioning in a Single Drawing
• Creating Dimension Styles as Part of Template Drawings
• Optional Method for Fixed Dimension Text height in Template Drawings
• Dimensioning in Paper Space Layouts
• When to Dimension in Paper Space
• Procedure for Dimensioning in Paper Space
• Annotative Dimensions
• Dimensioning Isometric Drawings

Advanced Layouts, Annotative Objects & Plotting
• Concepts
• Advanced Layouts
• Layer Visibility for Viewports
• Layer and V player
• Layer Property Overrides
• Linetype Scale in Viewports (PSLTSCALE)
• Dimensioning in Paper Space
• The “Reverse Method” for Calculating Drawing Scale Factor
• Steps for Calculating the Drawing Scale Factor by the “Reverse Method
• Annotative Objects
• Setting Annotation Scale and Viewport Scale
• Creating and Displaying Annotative Objects in Multiple viewports
• SELECTIONANNODISPLAY
• Adding and Deleting Scale Representations for Annotative Objects
• Objectscale
• Adjusting Positions for Individual Annotative Object Scale Representations
• Annoreset
• ANNOALLVISIBLE
• Annoupdate
• SAVEFIDELITY
• Linetype Scales for Annotative Drawings
• MSLTSCALE
• Applications for Multiple viewports
• Using Two Layouts to Plot the Same Geometry at Different Scales
• Using Two Viewports to Display the Same Geometry at Different Scales
• Using One Layout to Plot Xref Drawings in Multiple Viewports at Different Scales
• Plot Style Tables and Plot Styles
• What is the Difference between a Plot Style and a Plot Style Table?
• Color-Dependent and Named Plot Style Tables
• Attaching a Plot Style Table to a layout
• Stylesmanager
• Creating a Plot Style Table
• Editing Plot Styles
• Assigning Named Plot Styles to Objects
• Plotstyle
• Convertpstyles and convertctb
• Plot Stamping (Plotstamp)