AUTOCAD BASIC COURSE OUTLINE:

1. HISTORY OF AUTOCAD
2. USES AND PREFRENCE OF AUTOCAD
3. AUTOCAD JOBS
4. GETTING STARTED WITH AUTOCAD
 Opening and Creating Drawings
 Exploring the AutoCAD User Interface
 Zooming and Panning
 Viewing / Saving Drawing

5. METHODS OF USING COMMANDS

6. STARTING A DRAWING LIMITS + UNITS

 Start a Line and How many methods to draw a line
 Co-ordinates and Types in AutoCAD

7. KEYBOARD
 Toggle Drawing Modes
 Manage Screen
 Manage Drawing
 Manage Workflow

8. BASIC DRAWINGS AND EDITING COMMAND

Line circle Polygon Polyline
Rectangle Ellipse Arc Ray construction line
9. ADVANCE EDITING COMMANDS
 Trim and Extend
 Fillet and Chamfer
 Polyline Edit and Spline
 Offset

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  Relation b/w Offset and Layers
 Join
 Break + Break at point + Divide
 Point and Revision Cloud
 Lengthen and Reverse Tool
 Erase
 Explode + Overkill
 Stretch and Multi Object Stretch

10. MAKING CHANGES IN YOUR DRAWING

 Move
 Copy
 Rotate
 Mirror + Mirror Text
 Scale
 Using the reference option with the Scale Tool
 Align Tool

11.CREATING SIMPLE DRAWINGS

 Small Houses
 Simple Objects
 Geometric Shapes

12.SAVE DRAWING WITH DIFFERENT VERSION + MAKE .BAK FILE

 Open and Save settings in Option Command
 File save
 File open
 Application menu
 File safety Precaution

13. OPTION DISPLAY SETTING

 Window Elements
 Display Resolution
 Crosshair Size

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14.SELECTION OPTION IN AUTOCAD

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  Window Selection
 Cross Selection
 Settings of Selection

15. GRIP TOOL IN AUTOCAD

 Setting
 Types with Names

16.ORGANIZING YOUR DRAWING WITH LAYERS

 Layer States
 Properties by Layer
 Layer Tools
 Advance Layer Tools
 Import Export Layers

17. DIMENSIONING IN DRAWING

 Dimension Settings
 Using Dimensioning Tools
 Dimensioning in a Layout Tab vs. the Model Tab
 Using Dimension Styles
 Editing Dimensions

18. TEXT
 The Multiline Text Tool
 The Single Line Text Tool
 Editing Text
 Text in Model Space vs. Paper Space
 The Multileader Tool

19.ANALYZING MODEL AND OBJECT PROPERTIES


The Properties Palette

Quick Select

Select Similar

Measure Geometry Tools
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20.ADVANCE DIMENSIONING

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  Advance Options of Dimensioning
21. IMPORT EXPORT DIMENSION STYLE

22. ARRAY TOOL IN AUTOCAD

 Rectangular Array
 Path Array
 Polar Array
 Edit Options

23. CHPROP
 Use in Change Line weight colour Type

24. MAKING HOUSE PLANS IN AUTOCAD

 Creating Simple Floor Plans
 Using Door Windows Layers Hatches
25. BOUNDRY COMMAND
 Regen
 Polyline

26.PROPERTIES AND TOOL PALET

 Insert
 Make own Tool Pallet
27. SECTION ELEVATION
 Simple House Section
 Simple House Elevation
 Complex House Section
 Complex House Elevation
28. HATCHES + GRADIANTS IN DRAWING OBJECT
 Make and Edit Hatch
 Set Origin
 Super Hatch
 Gradients and Types of Gradients

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29. MARKUP PANEL
 Wipout

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  Revision Cloud
 Fram

30. MAKING LINE TYPE IN AUTOCAD

 Manual
 By Method

31. MODEL VIEWPORTS

 Named
 Join
 Restore
32. PAPER SPACE / LAYOUT VIEWPORTS
 Rectangular
 Polygonal
 Object
 Lock + Unlock

33.SUBMISION DRAWING
34. ALIASES COMMAND IN AUTOCAD
35.GROUPS IN AUTOCAD
 Creating Groups
 Edit Groups
 Group Settings

36. UTILITIES IN AUTOCAD

 Dimension
 Area
 Volume
 Area calculation with Hatches
 Area calculation with polyline

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37. LEADERS IN AUTOCAD
 Multi Leader Style

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  Making And Editing Leader

38.TABLES IN AUTOCAD
 Make Tables
 Insert Table
 Formulas In Tables

39. FIELD COMMAND

 In Title Block Creation
 In Tables as Formulas

40. TCOUNT COMMAND IN AUTOCAD

 Tcount
 Bcount

41. TROUBLE SHOOTING IN AUTOCAD

 Audit
 Overkill
 Purge

42. REGEN AND REGION COMMAND

 Uses
 Difference
43.HIDE AND ISOLATE OBJECTS IN AUTOCAD

44.INSERTING BLOCKS AND IMAGES IN DRAWINGS

 The Insert Block Command
 Inserting Blocks with Tool Palettes
 Dynamic Blocs
 Migrating Blocks and other Elements between Drawings with
Design Centre
 Insert Images
 Raster Images
 Wright Block

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45. DESIGN CENTER TOOL IN AUTOCAD
 How to Insert
 Insert Blocks

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  Add Blocks in Design Centre

46.MAKING DRAWING TEMPLATE

 Using Layers
 Dimension Style

47.X-REF IN AUTOCAD
 Uses + Definition
 Attach Drawings
 Attach Images
 Edit Drawings
 Transmitting In Autocad

48. EXPRESS TOOL AUTOCAD

 Centre line Uses
 Text around Arch or Circle
 Modify Text
 Enclose In Object
 Auto Numbers
 Convert to Mtext
 Break line Symbol
 Mocoro Command

49.SETTING UP LAYOUT
 Pages Sizes
 Change Current Paper Space
 Creating Layout
50.HOW TO MAKE PDF IN AUTOCAD
51.HOW TO MAKE JPG FILE IN AUTOCAD

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52.HOW TO MAKE PDF WITH LAYER INAUTOCAD
53. MAKING PDF ON SCALE

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 54.PUBLISH COMMAND IN AUTOCAD
55. PRINTING AND PLOTING
 Model Space
 Paper Space

56. DATA EXTRACTION IN AUTOCAD

 Make New File
 Type Setting
 Export Into Excel File

BIG THANKS TO
 ZAIN UL ABIDIN
 JAMSHAID
 LUKMAN ANSARI
 AHSAAN ABDUL QAYUM

ALWAYS BE HAPPY

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