AutoCAD Essentials

The objective of AutoCAD Essentials is to enable students to create a basic 2D drawing in the AutoCAD software. Even at this fundamental level, the AutoCAD software is one of the most sophisticated computer applications that you are likely to encounter. Therefore learning to use it can be challenging.

AutoCAD Essentials covers the essential core topics for working with the AutoCAD software. The teaching strategy is to start with a few basic tools that enable the student to create and edit a simple drawing, and then continue to develop those tools. More advanced tools are also introduced throughout the training course.

Outcomes & Objectives:

How to perform a basic setup of the modelling environment

• Get to know the ribbon and user interface terminology
• Identify the panels and the tools
• Using the tools and properties palettes
• Navigate around the drawing using commands such as Start a New Project
• Project Information
• Create the Building Grid
• Levels
• Place Construction Elements
• Automatic Steel Connections
• Create Model Views – and their use by Cameras for GA creation
• Create a Straight Stairs Between Two Points
• Create Handrailing Between Selected Points
• Insert a Spiral Staircase in the 3D Model
• Insert a Vertical Caged Ladder and Monowills
• Create Rectangular Grating
• Create the Portal Frame
• Connect the Frame
• Copy the Frame and Connections
• Apply Bracing
• Insert Cold Rolled Purlins and Sheeting Rails
• Insert Cladding Panels
• Create a Roof Truss and apply the Connections
• Create Hip Rafters
• Create Purlins to the hip roof, apply connections and insert Eaves beams
• Create the Platform Support Steelwork
• Create a Stair
• Insert the Mezzanine Floor Cold Rolled Steelwork
• Create Flooring Panels
• Apply Handrailing to the Stairs and Platform
• Different information management systems and Exchange formats
• Configure Numbering and Marking prior to creating NC Files
• Add Project Information to the NC Files
• Produce DXF files for plates with Hard Stamping
• Generate Manufacturer Specific Cold Rolled CAM Data
• Create User Connections
• Insert User Connections
• Modify User Connections
• The Drawing Style Manager
• Drawing Prototypes
• The Title Block
• The Drawing Frame
• BOM’s and Revision Tables
• The Management Tools application
• Element Transfer between Advance Steel and Revit
• Structural Columns and Framings Transfer
• Steel Fabrication Element Transfer
• Structural Connection Transfer and Synchronisation
• Analysis Results Transfer from Revit to Advance Steel
• Level Import and Export
• Grid Transfer and Synchronisation
• The GTC Mapping Database