AutoCAD 2014

AutoCAD 2014

Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, connected design tools in Autodesk® AutoCAD® software, one of the world’s leading 2D and 3D design applications. With robust 3D tools that can create almost any shape imaginable, AutoCAD helps you create stunning designs. It offers innovations that can help increase design efficiency and speed documentation, and enables you to more smoothly share designs with colleagues. Connect with the cloud to collaborate on designs and access them from your mobile device. With these capabilities and more, AutoCAD delivers the power and flexibility you need to take documentation and design further.

AutoCAD 2014 Complete Guide is designed to give you a solid understanding of AutoCAD features and capabilities from the basics through to advanced and complex 3D modeling components. Every course is designed to use all learning styles from text, audio, video, interactivity, quizzes to practical “Let Me Try” examples.

Course Outline

1. Getting Started
   • Exploring the AutoCAD for Windows User Interface
   • Setting Drawing Units
2. Basic Drawing Skills
   • Navigating 2D Drawings
   • Drawing Lines and Rectangles
   • Canceling, Erasing, and Undoing
   • Using Coordinate Systems
   • Drawing Circles, Arcs, and Polygons
   • Filleting and Chamfering Lines
3. Using Drawing Aids
   • Grid and Snap
   • Ortho and Polar Tracking
   • PolarSnap and Running Object Snaps
   • From Snap and Object Snap Tracking
4. Editing Entities
   • Creating Selection Sets
   • Move and Copy
   • Rotate and Scale
   • Working with Arrays
   • Trim and Extend
   • Lengthen and Stretch
   • Offset and Mirror
   • Grip Editing
5. Shaping Curves
   • Drawing and Editing Curved Polylines
   • Drawing Ellipses
   • Drawing and Editing Splines
   • Blending Between Objects with Splines
6. Controlling Object Visibility and Appearance
   • Changing Object Properties
   • Setting the Current Layer
   • Altering Objects’ Layer Assignments
   • Controlling Layer Visibility
   • Applying Linetype
   • Assigning and Managing Layer Properties
7. Organizing Objects
   • Defining Inserting Blocks
   • Editing Blocks
   • Redefining Blocks
   • Working with Groups
8. Hatching and Gradients
   • Specifying Hatch Areas
   • Associating Hatches with Boundaries
   • Hatching with Patterns
   • Hatching with Gradients
9. Working with Blocks and Xrefs
   • Working with Global Blocks
   • Accessing Content Globally and Storing Content
   • Referencing External Drawings and Images
10. Creating and Editing Text
    • Creating Text Styles
    • Transforming and Creating Text
    • Writing and Formatting Paragraphs of Text using MTEXT
    • Editing Text
11. Dimensioning
    • Styling Dimensions
    • Adding Dimensions
    • Editing Dimensions
12. Keeping in Control with Constraints
    • Working with Geometric and Dimensional Constraints
    • Constraining Objects Simultaneously with Geometry and Dimensions
    • Making Parametric Changes
13. Working with Layouts and Annotative Objects
    • Creating Annotative Styles and Objects
    • Creating Layouts and Adjusting Floating Viewports
    • Overriding Layer Properties in Layout Viewports
    • Drawing on Layouts
14. Printing and Plotting
    • Configuring Output Devices
    • Creating Plot Style Tables
    • Using Plot Style Tables
    • Plotting Layouts and Exporting to an Electronic Format
15. Working with Data
    • Geolocating Projects
    • Defining Attributes and Blocks
    • Inserting Attributed Blocks and Working with Tables
16. Navigating 3D Models
    • Using Visual Styles
    • Working with Tiled Viewports and 3D Navigation
    • Cameras, Steering Wheels and Saving Views
17. Navigating 3D Models (Bonus Content)
    • 3D Workspaces
    • Using Visual Styles
    • Working with Tiled Viewports
    • 3D Navigation
    • Steering Wheels
    • Cameras and Saving Views
18. Modeling in 3D
    • Creating Surface Models
    • Editing Surface Models
    • Creating Solid Models
    • Editing Solid Models, Smoothing Meshes
19. Solids (Bonus Content)
    • Working with 3D Objects – AutoCAD Commands
    • Drawing 3D Polylines and using 3D OSNAPS
    • Working with the UCS
    • Creating Primative Solid Models
    • Boolean Operations – Bonus Content
    • Working with 3D Objects – Gizmos
    • Working with 3D Objects – Editing Primatives
    • Working with 3D Objects – Aligning
    • 3D Arrays & 3D Mirrors
    • Creating Solid Models
    • Sweeping
    • Lofts
    • Press Pull
    • Thickening Surfaces
    • Shells
    • Editing Edges of Solids
    • Editing Faces of Solids
    • Separating Solids
    • 3D Print Services
20. Surfaces (Bonus Content)
    • Creating Surface Models – Extrude & Revolve
    • Creating Surface Models – Lofts & Blends
    • Surface Associativity
    • Creating Surface Models – Sweep
    • Creating Surface Models – Planar & Network
    • Creating Surface Models – Offset
    • Editing Surface Models
    • Patching Surfaces
    • Sculpting Surface Models
    • NURBS
    • Projection
    • Spline Creation
    • Surface Analysis
21. Meshes (Bonus Content)
    • Intro to Mesh and Mesh Smoothness
    • Creating Meshes – Primatives
    • Creating Meshes – Converting From other Object Types
    • Creating Meshes – Using Other Objects
    • Using Grips to Edit Meshes
    • Editing Meshes – Vertices & Edges
    • Editing Meshes – Faces
22. Presenting and Documenting 3D Design
    • Assigning Materials
    • Placing and Adjusting Lights
    • Creating Renderings and Documenting Models with Drawings
23. Presenting and Documenting 3D Design (Bonus Content)
    • Assigning Materials
    • Creating Materials
    • Placing and Adjusting Lights
    • Cameras
    • Creating Renderings
    • Animations
    • Section Planes and Elevations
    • SOLVIEW, SOLDRAW, & SOLPROF
    • Flatshot
    • Creating 2D Views
    • Creating 2D Views – Sections & Details
    • Documenting 3D Models from Other Systems