Unit 1 – The Basics of AutoCAD for Mechanical Users
Creating Project Folders
Creating Mechanical Specific Folder and File Names
Adding Files to Project Folders
Using Find to Locate Lost Files
Using Sequential File Saves
File Archives and Compression
Unit 2 – Creating Your First Drawing
Section 1: Setting up a Drawing
Section 2: Using AutoCAD Drafting Tools
Section 3: Drawing Lines
Unit 3 – Viewing and Plotting a Drawing
Section 1:Creating Views
Section 2: Introduction to Plotting
Unit 4 – Basic CAD Drawing Techniques
Section 1: Setting Display Format and Precision
Section 2: Working with Template Drawings
Section 3: Coordinate System Basics
Unit 5 – Understanding Layers and Linetypes
Section 1: Working with Layers
Section 2: Understanding Linetypes
Unit 6 – Creating Geometry Common to Mechanical Drawings
Section 1: Drawing Circles
Section 2: Drawing Arcs
Section 3: Drawing Polygons
Unit 7 – Annotating a Drawing with Text and Hatching
Section 1: Adding Text to a Drawing
Section 2: Filling Areas with Hatching
Unit 8 – Drawing Accurately
Section 1: Working with Entity Points and Object Snap
Section 2: Using Object Snap Tracking
Unit 9 – Creating Selection Sets
Section 1: Methods for Creating Selection Sets
Unit 10 – Basic Editing Skills
Section 1: Offsetting, Rotating, Mirroring, Scaling, and Stretching objects.
Section 2: Editing Edges and Corners of Objects
Section 3: Producing ARRAYS of objects.
Unit 11 – Editing with Grips
Section 1: Working with Grips
Unit 12 – Advanced Drawing Techniques
Section 1: Working with Point and Divide to Create Threads
Section 2: Creating a Multiview Drawing with XLINE and RAY
Unit 13 – Dimensioning a Drawing
Section 1: Dimensioning Basics
Section 2: Linear and Radial Dimensions
Unit 14 – Modifying Object Characteristics and Extracting Information from Your Drawing
Section 1: Modifying Object Properties
Section 2: Extracting Information from your Drawing
Unit 15 – Using Symbols and Attributes
Section 1: Creating and Inserting a Block of the SI Symbol
Section 2: Adding Information to a Nut Symbol with Attributes
