Overview
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Discover how to work with AutoCAD to create construction drawings that clearly communicate your design intent.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Construction drawings: The industry standard
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The new AutoCAD 2022 interface
- Communicating your design intent
- Typical construction drawings
- Metric drawing sizes: UK and Europe
- Imperial drawing sizes: USA
- Deciding on the appropriate drawing size
- The Page Setup Manager
- Using page setups to maintain drawing standards
- Developing a suitable title block
- Setting up the right layers on the title block
- Setting up attributes on the title block
- Saving the title block as an AutoCAD block
- Creating an appropriate page setup in Page Setup Manager
- Saving a title block as a drawing (DWG) or a template (DWT)
- Various industry standards for layers in AutoCAD
- Working with the Layer Properties Manager
- Setting layers to an optimum
- Setting up layers that should not be plotted
- The Defpoints layer when annotating
- Cartesian coordinates in AutoCAD
- The World Coordinate System (WCS)
- The User Coordinate System (UCS)
- Using the UCS origin
- Setting up a named UCS
- Modifying a viewport with a UCS
- Using preset views with the ViewCube
- Setting up your units and your limits
- Making sure the UCS is correct
- Using a named UCS where needed
- Developing a roof plan in the Model tab
- Developing elevations in the Model tab
- Setting up named views for easy navigation
- Developing section markers in the Model tab
- Developing sections in the Model tab
- Setting up named views for easy navigation
- Using 3D section tools: A perfect excuse to get into 3D
- Developing detail views in the Model tab
- Using multileaders and quick leaders as detail markers
- Adding detail markers to plans, elevations, and sections
- Tabulating details in an AutoCAD table
- Annotating details
- Using a 3D flatshot: Another excuse to get into 3D
- Checking the viewport's layer settings
- Drawing viewports in the Layout tab
- Setting up the views in the viewports
- Scaling the viewports with the scale list
- Using annotative scaling
- Setting up sheet sizes and layout tabs
- Setting up Page Setups for your layouts
- Overriding Page Setups in your layouts
- Printing individual layouts
- Publishing and batch plotting
- Printing out to a DWF file
- Using Autodesk Design Review
- Working with the Markup Set Manager
- Using the Shared Views palette
- Sharing designs to the AutoCAD web app
- Next steps
