Class 1
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- Location: online
- Topic:
Overview of CAD. Operating systems used in PC; AutoCAD interfaces: Toolbars, Menus,
Cursor Menus, The command window, the text windows; Accessing commands: Using
toolbar, using menus, using command line; Switching from dialog box to command line;
Saving files; File naming convention. Laboratory work: Practicing interacting with
AutoCAD GUI, pull-down menus, and create simple drawings.
- Activities & Due Dates: Add assignments, activities and due dates, as relevant
Class 2
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- Location: online
- Topic:
2D Basics. Drawing units (Architectural, Decimal, Engineering, Fractional, and Scientific);
Starting a new drawing; Standard drawing sheet sizes; Drawing limits; Setting up grid and
snap; Using layers and colors. Coordinate systems (Absolute and relative, rectangular and
polar); World coordinate system (WCS) and User defined coordinate system (UCS); Using
direct distance entry; Shifting and rotating the coordinate systems; Locating a new UCS
origin; Restoring the UCS to WCS. Laboratory work: Practice setting up grids and snaps;
create geometry using different coordinate systems; learn mode draw commands.
- Activities & Due Dates: Add assignments, activities and due dates, as relevant
Class 3
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- Location: Note whether online or in-person
- Topic:
Fundamentals of 2-D Construction. Types of lines (visible lines, centerlines, hidden lines,
phantom lines, and leaders); Creating line objects (Line, polylines, multilines, polygons,
freehand sketching). Laboratory work: Simple 2-D geometric construction. Bisecting a line
or an arc; Bisecting an angle; Drawing a line through a point and perpendicular to a line;
Drawing a pentagon, a hexagon, and an Octagon. Creating curved objects (Spline curves,
circles, arcs, ellipses, and donuts). Use editing commands (move, copy, offset, mirror, rotate,
trim, extend, erase, fillet, chamfer, and break);
- Activities & Due Dates: Add assignments, activities and due dates, as relevant
Class 4
- Topic
Complex 2D geometric construction and dimensioning. Laboratory work: Drawing with
precision: Adjusting snap and grid alignment; Using ortho mode; Snapping to geometric
points on objects; Using object snaps (endpoint, midpoint, intersection, center, quadrant,
perpendicular). Applying dimensions. Terminology and conventions; linear dimensions;
Dimension styles, Units; Aligned dimensions; Radius and diameter dimension; Angular
dimensions; Baseline dimension; Center mark. dimensioning holes.
Class 5
Orthographic projection theory and adding text. Principal planes of projection. Three view
system. Text and text styles; Using line text; using multiline text; Fonts; Using text editors.
Laboratory work: Practice creating front view, top view, and the right-side view of an object.
Adding and modifying text.
Class 6
Section view and auxiliary views. Different type of sections views. Auxiliary views for
Inclined and oblique planes. Primary and secondary auxiliary views. Laboratory work:
Practice creating section and auxiliary views.
Class 7
Working Drawings. Borderline, title block, release block, tolerance block, revision block,
parts list, and drawing notes. Laboratory work: Practice creating working drawings.
