AutoCAD 1 - Online Training (Introductory 2D)

The course content begins with a series of simple mechanical style drawings designed to familiarize the student with the most common construction and editing commands. After becoming proficient with the basic techniques for creating and navigating a technical drawing, students will move on to the creation of a series of architectural style drawings including cornice brackets, an ornate iron roof cresting, and a classic pediment portico.

Time saving techniques for reusing content will be explored as the student learns how to convert the portico entrance to a matching pediment double hung window in less than 10 minutes. While creating these part files an emphasis will be placed on proper organizational layering techniques and the application of line weights to ensure readability in the final plotted set of drawings. Furniture design will be explored while learning dimensioning and annotation techniques which will be applied to all existing drawings.

Students will learn how to follow industry standards for annotation and layering and will become familiar with both Mechanical and Architectural styles of dimensioning. Finally, students will learn how to reuse content between drawings and will bring the architectural parts that they have created earlier in the course into their final project, a detailed front elevation of a classic, Second Empire style house.

Upon successful completion of this course, the students will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:

1. Set up an AutoCAD drawing.
2. Use construction commands to create a new drawing.
3. Use editing commands to modify an existing drawing.
4. Use annotation commands to add text and notes to a drawing.
5. Use dimensioning commands to add dimensions to a drawing.
6. Plot a single layout, single scale drawing.

Lesson Titles & Assignments

There are a total of 16 lessons in this course as follows:

Listed below are the assignments and the point at which you will be required to do them:

Tutor Support

You will receive online support via web-based discussion groups and email. All support questions will be answered by e-mail within 48 hours and usually on the same day.

Course Length

You have up to 90 days after you receive* the course materials (DVD's will be mailed to you) to complete all the assignments for this course in order to achieve your certificate.

*We allow 15-20 days shipping & set up from date of enrolment

Workload

There are 16 lessons and you should allow approximately 4hrs for each lesson as follows:

• 15 minutes to review the 10-20 pages of notes accompanying each lesson
• 90-120 minutes to watch the recorded video demonstrations
• The remaining time is to complete the practice and assignment exercises.

There are a total of 5 assignments and 1 final project to complete (spread evenly throughout the 16 lessons) and EVERY assignment will be submitted to your course tutor for evaluation by e-mail.

FREE AutoCAD Software

When you register on this course you will be eligible to download FREE student versions of a full range of Autodesk Software including AutoCAD 2012, Revit Architecture 2011, AutoCAD Architecture 2011, Inventor, 3DS Max, and many others. Student versions of Autodesk Software may be used for 3 YEARS after activating the software.

FREE Student software is fully functional and provides all of the same commands and options as the commercial versions of the software but you are not permitted to use it for commercial or for-profit purposes.. When you plot a drawing, student versions will include a plot stamp identifying the drawing as being created in an educational version of the program.

This software is provided with the assistance of the Autodesk Education Community. The link to the download area and instructions for installing this software is provided in your welcome email upon enrolling on the course. All free downloads must be activated by the student within 30 days as per Autodesk’s requirements.