Professional Auto-CAD Training

Course details

Our AutoCAD mentor teams consist of the professional AutoCAD users who are working on a CAD based outsourcing practice, working for various clients across the globe including Australia and UK. We at Broadway, not only teach you to be a cad monkeys but also train about the building standards, drawing principles and drawing techniques to get the job done quickly and efficiently. We are aware of the updates and upgrades on the latest version of the software and so we train our students accordingly.

Educational Background:

Students with any educational background can learn AutoCAD. AutoCAD is fundamental software for everyone who needs drawings or 3D visualization. This software is widely popular among Architects, Civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, Aeronautical engineers and Interior designers; however it is also being used by Fashion designers, Carpenters and plumbers. This is a must learn software for anyone who has to deal with drawings or visualization on their profession.

Courses Outline- AUto-CAD 2D/3D

2D Drawing Construction

• Loading AutoCAD, Screen Organization
• Entering AutoCAD Commands, Menus, Command Line, Function Keys
• Coordinate System, entering, distance and angles
• Basic drawing commands: (point, line, arc, circle, polygon, ellipse, donut, pline)
• Starting a new drawing, naming and saving, ending session, ray, multiline, sketch

Drawing Aids in Auto CAD:

• Units limits, status, snap, grid, ortho, rotated snap, osnap and options.
• Blipmode, use of function keys layers, right click customization
• Managing drawing files (end, save quit, files rename)

Drawing tools in Auto CAD:

• Help, undo and u, redo, point, filters
• Display commands: Zoom, pan, redraw, redrawall, regen, regenall, regenauto,
• view, viewers
• Calculator /Geometric Calculator

Modifying commands in AutoCAD

• Erase, offset, oops, copy, scale array, move, break, trim, fillet, chamfer, mirror,
• rotate, pedit, select, pdsize, pdmode, (point style), setvar, stretch extend, use of
• grips, change, chdrop, explode, divide, match property

Getting information in AutoCAD:

• ID, dist, area, list, dblist, status, time
• Fine tuning drawings in AutoCAD:
• Hatching, ucsicon, line type, Itscale, isoplane and isometric drawing, elevation,
• layering, hatch patterns, colors

Working with in AutoCAD:

• Text, dtext, justifying text, text fonts, ddedit, ehtext, ddmodify, style, qtext,
• special text

Grouping in AutoCAD:

• Block, Wblock, insert, minsert, explode, base, external reference, organizing
• block library

Dimensioning in AutoCAD:

• Dimension styles, dimensioning commands, tolerance, limits, dimension setup,
• dimension variables, dimension scale

Plotting Drawings

• Device information
• Pen arrangements
• Other parameters, paper size, and orientation
• Scale, rotation and origin, paper space
• Model space, tile mode, Mview, vplayeer, zoom xp.

3D Basics

• Axes, Planes, and Faces
• 3D Workspaces, Ribbon, Toolbars, and 3D Options
• Entering and Exiting 3D
• Projecting into 3D
• 3D Dynamic Views
• Extrude
• Visual Styles: Hide and Shade
• View Cube and Navigation Bar

Primitives

• Introduction to Primitives
• Box
• Wedge
• Cone
• Sphere
• Cylinder
• Torus
• Pyramid
• Applying Primitives

Object Manipulation

• Introduction to Object Manipulation
• Rotate3D
• 3Drotate (Gizmo)
• Mirror3D
• 3Darray
• 3Dscale
• 3Dmove
• Fillets and Chamfers in 3D

Boolean Operations

• Introduction to Boolean Operations
• Union
• Subtract
• Intersect
• 3D Modelling
• Exercise: Building Wall with Door and Window

Solid Modelling

• Introduction to Solid Modelling
• Revolve
• Shell
• Taper
• 3D Modelling Exercise: Wastebasket
• Loft
• 3D Modelling Exercise: Mechanical Drill Bit
• Path Extrusion
• Sweep
• Drawing Challenge: Helical Coil

Advanced Solids, Faces, and Edges

• Introduction to Advanced Solids, Faces, and Edges
• Poly-solid
• Helix
• 3D Path Array
• 3Dalign
• Working with Faces
• Delete Faces
• Move Faces
• Copy Faces
• Offset Faces
• Rotate Faces
• Colour Faces
• Working with Edges
• Colour Edges
• Copy Edges
• Helical Coil Explained

Surfaces and Meshes

• Introduction to Surfaces and Meshes
• Surfacing Commands
• Planar Surface
• Region
• Rule surf
• Tab surf
• Rev-surf
• Edge surf
• 3Dface and 3Dmesh
• Smooth Mesh Primitives
• Mesh Modification 1. Smoothness
• Mesh Modification 2. Filters and Gizmos
• Mesh Modification 3. Additional Tools

UCS, V-ports, Text, and Dimensions in 3D

• Introduction to UCS, V-ports, Text, and Dimensions in 3D
• Advanced UCS
• UCS
• World
• UCS Previous
• Face UCS
• Object
• View
• Origin
• Z-Axis Vector
• 3 Point
• X, Y, and Z
• Named UCS
• Views and View Manager
• V-ports

Dynamic View

• Camera
• Target
• Distance
• POints
• Pan
• Zoom
• TWist
• CLip
• Hide
• Off
• Undo

Cameras

• Walk and Fly
• Path Animation
• Action recorder

Lighting and Rendering

• Introduction to Lighting and Rendering
• Lighting
• Point Light
• Spotlight
• Distant Light
• Shadows, Sun, and Sky.
• Materials and Rendering. Materials
• Rendering