Landscape Digital Design ENVT1086

Day 2 Introduction to AutoCAD 2014 & 2D Skills

Tuesday 7th January 2014

10:00am First morning session begins

Day 1 review
Introduction to AutoCAD what is AutoCAD?
AutoCAD Essentials book online via library (portal > Athens)
The AutoCAD Drawing Interface Ribbon, tabs, panels, command line
The AutoCAD Drawing World
Units and scales
Drawing tools Lines, Polylines, Circles and Splines
Erasing objects by picking (Delete key)
11:30am Morning break

11:45am Second morning session begins

Object selection picking, window selections and implied windowing
Zooming and Panning
Modify tools Erase, Copy, Move, Offset, Trim and Extend
Noun/verb and verb/noun editing
Grips and Grip Editing
Using co-ordinates absolute and relative

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm First afternoon session begins

Direct Distance Entry
Polar Tracking
Object Snaps snap to endpoint etc.
Running Object Snap
Right-click Snap overrides
Object Snap Tracking

3:30pm Afternoon break

3:45pm Second afternoon session begins

Layers
AutoCAD 2D Drawing Exercise (see separate sheet)

5:00pm Day Ends backup your project files

The tutorials at www.CADTutor.net cover many of the topics

taught on this course. More information about this course can be
found at the course homepage:
http://www.coursestuff.co.uk/ENVT1086/

David Watson, December 2013