Course Description:

In this eight-day course participants will learn the features and elements of computer-aided drafting using AutoCAD software. The focus is on practicing the basic drawing and editing commands required to produce simple two-dimensional drawings.

Course Topics:

• Entering and using the drawing editor
• Setting up the drawing environment
• Constructing entities
• Editing a drawing
• Display control and zooming
• Drawing storage and retrieval
• Layer and line-type options
• Detailing
• Isometric drafting
• Blocks creation and exporting blocks
• Design centre
• AutoCAD setup and configuration
• Xrefs
• Attributes and data extraction
• Plotting of drawings and paper space