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AutoCAD Training Overview
From the novice who's just drawing lines to the advanced 3D expert manipulating complex solids, everyone will find important improvements that affect the way they work with AutoCAD. The goal of this class is to help users make sense of the changes and quickly become productive in this new release. Major topics include new Internet tools, interface changes, new tracking and snap tools, multiple drawing environment and AutoCAD DesignCenter, new drafting and dimensioning tools, layer enhancements and lineweights, plotting with layouts, 3D features, and advanced topics including plot styles.
AutoCAD Training Topics
- The new drawing environment
- Working with AutoCAD 2000i
- Advanced topics
- New 3D features
AutoCAD Training Course Duration
16 hours
AutoCAD Training Course outline
Module 1: The New Drawing Environment
Section 1: Interface Changes
- AutoCAD Today
- Selecting Files to Open
- Opening Multiple Drawings
- Changes to the Screen Layout
- What Happens When You Right-Click?
- Intellimouse (Optional)
- The Layer Properties Manager
- ActiveAssistance Help
- Self Check: Interface Changes
Section 2: Drawing and Editing Tools
- Enhancements to Drawing and Editing Commands
- Polar Tracking and Polar Snap
- Object Snap Tracking
- New Snaps for Extension and Parallel
- Self Check: Drawing and Editing Tools
Module 2: Working with AutoCAD 2000i
Section 1: Shared Components in Drawings
- AutoCAD DesignCenter
- Block Enhancements
- Editing Blocks and XREFs
- Purging Unused Components
- Self Check: Shared Components in Drawings
Section 2: Annotation Enhancements
- New Dimensioning Tools
- Find and Replace Text
- Lineweights
- Self Check: Annotation Enhancements
Section 3: Plotting with Layouts
- A New Look for Plotting: Layouts
- Creating a New Layout
- Creating and Scaling Viewports
- The New Plot Dialog Box
- Self Check: Plotting with Layouts
Module 3: Advanced Topics
Section 1: Advanced Plotting Enhancements
- Non-rectangular Viewports
- Managing Plotters
- Saving a Page Setup
- Plot Styles
- Self Check: Advanced Plotting
Section 2: Internet Tools
- Plotting for the Web
- Publish to Web
- Meet Now
- eTransmit
- Hyperlinks
- Self Check: Internet Tools
Section 3: Other Advanced Features
- Managing Object Properties
- Quick Select
- Options Dialog
- Customize Dialog
- Managing Dimension Styles
- Self Check: Other Advanced Features
Module 4: New 3D Features
Section 1: UCS and Viewing
- Shading Options
- Working with Viewports in Model Space
- Changing UCS Icon Display
- Working with the UCS
- Saved Views
- Rotating the View
- Zooming and Panning in 3D
- Controlling the Viewpoint
- Clip Planes
- Self Check: UCS and Viewing
Section 2: Editing 3D Solids
- Using the SOLIDEDIT Command
- Extruding and Offsetting Faces
- Moving and Rotating Faces
- Tapering a Face
- Creating a Shell
- Removing Parts
- Imprinting and Cleaning
- Additional Options
- Self Check: Editing 3D Solids
Module 5: Appendix
System Requirements
Optional Topics
- Partial Open and Partial Load
- File Information
- Multiline Text Enhancements
- Changes to the Hatch Dialog
- OLE Enhancements
- Connecting with Databases
- Skills Assessment
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