AutoCAD 2018 Training
AutoCAD 2018 is a powerful designing and drafting software used to create precise 2D and 3D designs. In this beginner’s course, learn how to get started with AutoCAD. Shaun Bryant covers the basics of the user interface, showing how to use the ribbon, change workspaces, use the ViewCube, and work with the Quick Access Toolbar. Shaun also demonstrates how to manage files and options, navigate your drawings, and draw and modify objects. Plus, he explains how to draw more accurately with Grid and Snap, use text and annotations to help others get a clearer understanding of your designs, and work with the native DWG file type. Upon wrapping up this course, you’ll be ready to use AutoCAD competently in any industry-architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or product design.
Topics include:
– Exploring the user interface
– Using the ribbon, status bar, and ViewCube
– Opening, saving and closing files
– Setting and converting drawing units
– Navigating drawings
– Saving and restoring views
– Drawing and modifying objects
– Drawing accurately
– Reusing content
– Creating output
– Using PDFs in AutoCAD
AutoCAD 2018 New Features
Explore the new features in AutoCAD 2018 and learn how to leverage the functionality to boost your productivity, increase your effectiveness, and create kind of precise, measured 2D drawings that form the basis of design communication throughout the world. In this course, Shaun Bryant helps you understand the benefits of the new AutoCAD 2018 enhancements, leading you through each new feature. Shaun explains how to work with features like the Drafting Settings dialog box and the Quick Access Toolbar, and shows how to use off-screen selection and linetype gap selection. Plus, he shares how to use PDFs in AutoCAD and change the text to MTEXT, and goes into technology and performance enhancements such as high-res monitor support.
Topics include:
– Working with the File Navigation dialog
– Using the Quick Access Toolbar
– Updating reference paths
– Changing path types
– Finding and replacing reference files
– How to rename unloaded references
– Using linetype gap selection
– Sharing design views from AutoCAD
– Setting a PDF layer
– Using the PDFIMPORT and PDFATTACH commands
– Changing text to MTEXT
AutoCAD: 2D & 3D Elevations
Enhance and emphasize your designs to create professional 2D and 3D elevations. This course demonstrates how to use AutoCAD to set up accurate plans, modify layouts, adjust viewports, add 2D elevations, and develop 3D elevations. Join Shaun Bryant as he takes you through how to customize layers, hatches, backgrounds, annotations, modelspaces, and more.
AutoCAD: Developing CAD Standards
AutoCAD is the leader in CAD drafting. In this course, author Shaun Bryant takes you through the various CAD standards available that are used by professionals around the world. Learn how to work with the AutoCAD standard DWS file format, leverage industry standards (including US NCS and BIMuk), and use AutoCAD standards to audit and check your work. Shaun also shows you how to develop standard AutoCAD templates-complete with title blocks and viewports-to apply your internal CAD standards.
Topics include:
– Setting up standards in AutoCAD
– Using layer and text, dimension, and multileaders style standards
– Leveraging industry standards
– Using standard (DWS) files
– Creating a metric template with standard layers, units, and styles
– Creating a standard layout with a title block and viewport
– Developing a drawing from a standard template
– Autocad Verification
Drawing
– Working with Drawings Exported From Revit
AutoCAD is the leader in CAD drafting, used by designers around the world, and it plays beautifully with Autodesk Revit Architecture. In this course, author Shaun Bryant takes you through how to work with CAD drawings exported from Revit, and use the standards and settings that come through from Revit in AutoCAD. Learn how to work with layers, XREFs, coordinates, plus, find out how to customize how your Revit drawings come out and make the adjustment process in AutoCAD much easier.
Topics include:
– Exporting a CAD drawing from Revit
– Working with Revit CAD layers
– Working with exported XREF data
– Using coordinates
– Setting up text styles
– Editing title blocks
– Saving and plotting final CAD drawing
AutoCAD Construction Drawings
AutoCAD is a world leader in computer-aided design (CAD), and users around the world use this powerful software to communicate their design intent in many different disciplines. In this course, Shaun Bryant takes you through how to work with AutoCAD to create construction drawings that accurately communicate your design intent. Shaun explains how to use tools and features within AutoCAD to develop drawings that clearly express the size of the objects you want to build. He covers how to develop a title block, set up attributes, set up layers to industry standards, develop plans and elevations, set up viewports, and more.
Topics include:
– Communicating your design intent
– Drawing sizes in AutoCAD
– Deciding on the appropriate drawing size
– Using the page setups to maintain drawing size
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Setting up your layers to industry standards
– Creating plans and elevations
– Developing sections in the Model tab
– Setting up viewsports and scales
– Creating standard layouts
– Printing layouts out
