AutoCAD 2009 Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Starting AutoCAD 2 days
In this chapter students learn how to open and navigate through AutoCAD. Also this chapter shows the many short cuts and commands AutoCAD offers.
Chapter 2: Basic Drawing and Editing Commands 3 days
In this chapter the basic commands that were shown in the previous chapter are used to draw and create simple lines and shapes. Starting with drawing lines the chapter goes on to teach how to make circles rectangles and how to view and erase them.
Chapter 3: Projects- Creating a Simple drawing 1 day
In this chapter all the commands that have been learned are all used to make some simple drawings.
Chapter 4: Drawing Precision in AutoCAD 3 days
In this chapter students learn how to select exact points on and object using Object Snaps, to draw lines at specific angles specific angles using Polar Tracking, to find exact locations using Object Snap Tracking, and to use Snap and Grid.
Chapter 5: Making Changes in your drawing 3 days
In this chapter how to select objects for editing, how to move, copy, rotate , and scale objects, and how to edit with grips is taught through a series of simple drawings that are pre- drawn and then edited using the new commands.
Chapter 6: Making your drawings more precise 2 days
In this chapter simple modifications are made to several drawings using all of the new commands like move, copy, rotate, scale, etc.
Chapter 7: Organizing your drawing with layers 1 day
In this chapter how to create a new drawing with a template, make a layer current, draw on specific layers, control thee state of a layer, and change the layer of an object are shown by simple steps that go over the new commands. This helps organize a drawing into different layers that can be hidden, labeled, changed and moved.
Chapter 8: Advanced Object Types 1 day
In this chapter arcs, polylines, polygon, and ellipses are introduced to add to the other drawing commands. These commands make it possible to draw curved lines to AutoCAD drawings and make perfect polygons quickly and efficiently.
Chapter 9: Getting Information from your drawing 1 day
In this chapter measuring exact distances and areas, and getting information about objects is made easier and possible by using the area, distance, list, locate point, and properties commands. With this information drawings can be measured to exact measurements with just a click of a button. Finding these commands may be difficult but with the Getting Information from Your Drawing chapter in the Ascent AutoCAD Fundamentals Student Guide makes it possible in a short time.\
Chapter 10: Drawing Organization and Information 2 days
This chapter goes through the different types of drafting that AutoCAD has to offer, starting with an architectural project, then mechanical, and finally a civil project. This chapter helps show the different types of drafting there is and how they differ.
Chapter 11: Advanced Editing Commands 3 days
This chapter steps it up a notch with more advanced commands, like trimming and extending objects, stretching objects, creating fillets and chamfers, offsetting objects, and finally arrays of objects. These commands can turn a simple low scale drawing to a work of art with the all new advanced command; it speeds up work time and makes life so much easier.
Chapter 12: Inserting Blocks 2 days
This chapter teaches how about blocks and dynamic blocks, how to insert them using the Insert command, Tool Palettes, and DesignCenter. These commands add furniture to floor plan, or building. Instead of having to tediously draw a toilet or chair, but using the new commands a chair can be added by the click of a button
Chapter 13: Creating more Complex Objects 4 days
This is the chapter where things really get interesting. Using everything that was learned the book goes through all of the basic areas of drafting, which consists of mechanical architectural and finally civil. The book shows what each area is and how it differs from the others.
Chapter 14: Setting up a Layout 2 days
Chapter 14 is all about learning how to print in AutoCAD using layouts, how to switch between Paper Space and Model Space, create viewports in a layout, scale and manipulate viewports, and copy a layout.
Chapter 15: Printing your drawing 1 day
This chapter is all about learning to select what to print or plot, how to select a plotter, and how to preview a printed drawing. It is a very helpful chapter and is a must know because if you can’t print your work then you can’t show to all your friends very easily, and post in on your wall to admire for years and years.
Chapter 16: Preparing to print 1day
This chapter is very short and doesn’t have much in it, but the information it does posses is very useful. It goes has two short projects that go over the final steps to printing.
Chapter 17: Text 2 days
In this chapter how to set up and use Annotation Scales and to create, and format Multiline text is shown. Up until now adding text to a drawing was thought to be impossible, but after this chapter adding text will just be another easy step.
Chapter 18: Hatching 1 day
This chapter is all about learning how to hatch areas of your drawing and to edit applied hatching. The purpose of hatching is to be able to distinguish certain areas of a drawing from other areas, by looking at the different patterns of lines that are shown. This command is very helpful in very complex drawings where it is hard to tell the difference between one types of wall to another for example.
Chapter 19: Adding Dimensions 2 days
This chapter is focused on learning how to place single, multiple, radial, and angular dimensions, to edit dimensions, to select a dimension style, and to place leaders. These useful instructions are helpful in that they can show the length of a line, diameter and radius, and the length of an arc. Editing dimensions are also included in this chapter.
Chapter 20: Annotating your drawing 2 days
This is the final chapter of AutoCAD 2009 Fundamentals part 1. This final chapter is where every skill that has been gained is used in several different architectural, mechanical, and civil projects. These are the most advanced drawings in this part 1 of fundamentals, and all the information learned will be cared on to part 2 of the AutoCAD Fundamentals book. I hope that this read helped you better understand the process of learning AutoCAD and its capabilities as a computer assisted design program.
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