About this course
This level 2 course picks up where our Level 1 day finishes by looking at a more applied approach to drawing and the use of more sophisticated features and techniques such as layers, understanding the co-ordinate system, working with schematic illustrations, adding annotations and more.
Our Level 1 course establishes a framework for CAD drawing, the command line, and the AutoCAD workspace to enable you to get started with this powerful application. This course moves forward by allowing you time and space to make use of those basics, and by extending your knowledge into other important areas.
What you will learn
We'll begin with a quick revision of AutoCAD basics before moving quickly into a thorough treatment of line editing, the Stretch tool, line trimming, joining objects, fillet trimming and related commands.
We'll then look at the concept of layers, including colour types, editing and changing layers and the use of layer templates. Annotations, document mark-up and dimensioning will then be discussed before looking the Polyline Tool and the use of schematic illustrations.
Working with blocks, repeated elements and the Explode command will then be presented. followed by a thorough treatment of the co-ordinate system before moving onto the final stages of output and completion.
The course finishes up by looking at printing, exporting and plotting your drawing and those issues which arise when taking your work out of AutoCAD to the printed page or another application.
Assumed knowledge
The course assumes you have attended our Level 1 course or that you have been using AutoCAD for some time in this, or an earlier version. You should be comfortable with the basics of the command line, creating objects and simple drawings etc but little else will be assumed.
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