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Schedule

1

Chapter 1: Getting Started with AutoCAD

1.1 Introduction to CAD/CAM and overview

1.2 installing AutoCAD and signing up to Autodesk account

1.3 Starting the Software

1.4 User Interface

Week 1

2

1.5 Working with Commands

1.6 Cartesian Workspace

1.7 Opening an Existing Drawing File

1.8 Viewing Your Drawing

1.9 Saving Your Work

Week 2

3

Chapter 2: Basic Drawing and Editing Commands and object types

2.1 Drawing Lines

2.2 Erasing Objects

2.3 Drawing Vertical and Horizontal Lines

Week 3

4

2.4 Drawing Rectangles

2.5 Drawing Circles

2.6 Drawing Arcs

Week 4

5

2.7 Drawing Polylines

2.8 Editing Polylines

2.9 Undo and Redo Actions

Week 5

6

PRACTICE 1

Week 6

7

Chapter 3: Projects: Creating a Simple Drawing and making changes

3.1 Create a Simple Drawing

3.2 Create Simple Shapes

3.3 Selecting Objects for Editing

Week 7

8

3.4 Moving Objects

3.5 Copying

3.6 Rotating Objects

3.7 Scaling Objects

3.8 Mirroring Objects

3.9 Editing with Grips

Week 8

9

Chapter 4: Organizing Your Drawing with Layers

4.1 What are Layers?

4.2 Layer States

4.3 Changing an Object’s Layer

4.4 Object properties and object look up

Week 9

10

CHAPTER 5: Advanced editing Commands.

5.1 Trimming and extending objects.

5.2 Stretching object

5.3 Creating Fillets and Chamfers

5.4 Offsetting Objects

5.5 Creating Arrays of Objects

Week 10

11

PRACTICE 2

Week 11

12

Chapter 6: Working with Annotations

6.1 Adding Text in a Drawing

6.2 Modifying Multiline Text

Week 12

13

7.1 Dimensioning Concepts

7.2 Adding Linear Dimensions

7.3 Adding Radial and Angular Dimensions

7.4 Editing Dimensions

Week 13

14

PRACTICE 3

Week 14

15

Chapter 8: Printing Your Drawing

8.1 Printing Concepts

8.2 Printing Layouts

8.3 Print and Plot Settings

Week 15

16

PRACTICE 5

Week 16

17

PROJECT

Week 17

18

PROJECT

Week 18

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PROJECT

Week 19

20

TEST

Week 20