Training: AutoCAD – Advanced

Module 1: Revision of the main tools

• 2D drawing
• 2D drawing modification
• Layer management and object properties
• Texts and annotations
• Hatching
• The graduation
• Layout and printing

Module 2: Managing Layer

• Transparency
• Property filters
• Group filters
• Layer states
• Layer descriptions

Module 3: Designing Complex 2D Objects

• Creating simple regions
• Creation of complex regions (union, subtraction and intersection)
• The limits of use of the regions
• Polyline creation or region by outline

Module 4: 2D Drawing Modification

• Manage the order of drawing objects
• Reassign “layer” properties
• Join similar objects
• Reverse the direction of entities: line, polyline …
• Find and eliminate duplicate objects
• Isolate / hide objects independently of layers

Module 5: The selections

• The quick selection
• Select similar objects

Module 6: Drawing Help Tools

• REPEROBJ (object tracking): orthonormal or polar projection
• POLAR (polar angles): definition and use of predefined angles
• DYN (dynamic input): use and parameterization of dynamic coordinate input
• The auto-complete commands entered on the command line
• TPY (Transparency Display): Using and Setting the Transparency Display
• EL (display of thicknesses): use and parameterization of the display of line thicknesses
• PR (Quick Properties): Setting Editable Properties by Objects
• SC (selection cycle): use of selection cycles
• AM (annotation monitor): Check associativity of annotations

Module 7: Hatching

• Advanced hatching tools
• Hatching with “gradients”
• Transparency
• Separate hatching
• The correspondence of properties

Module 8: The text

• Back to the style setting
• Advanced multiline text tools

Module 9: The rating

• Back to the style setting
• Advanced rating tools

Module 10: Multiple Benchmarks

• Add and / or delete reference lines
• Align benchmarks
• Merge landmarks

Module 11: Managing Annotation Objects

• Back to adding / removing the current scale to annotation objects

Module 12: Blocks

• Relationship between blocks and layers
• Create blocks with attributes
• Edit attributes
• Manage / synchronize attributes
• Create dynamic blocks
• Use the block editor
• Management and choice of display of dynamic blocks
• Edit a block from the drawing

Module 13: Inserting Linked External Data

• Insert an OLE object
• Insert a hyperlink

Module 14: Tool Palettes

• Create a tool palette
• Create and manage palette groups
• Items and tools storable in pallets
• Blocks in tool palettes: specific properties of blocks in tool palettes

Module 15: Data Export Tools

• Extract data from blocks to a text file (ATTEXTR)
• Define an extraction template
• Choose the extraction format
• Using the Extract Data Wizard (EXTRACTDONNEES)
• Creating a data extraction table or an external file

Module 16: External references or Xrefs

• Attach / detach a file (DWG, Images, PDF) as a reference
• Download / reload a DWG file for reference
• Edit a reference on site
• Attach / detach an image file as a reference

Module 17: The tables

• Table styles
• Table changes
• Tables formulas

Module 18: Layout and Printing

• The layout manager: presentations and object space
• Choice of printers and plotters
• Choice of paper sizes and units
• Create floating windows for presentations
• Relationship between paper space and floating object space
• Set the drawing scale by window
• Annotative annotation styles
• Locking windows
• The properties of the presentation layers
• Modify the list of scales
• Complex windows
• Enlarged windows
• Moving objects between spaces

Module 19: Publishing Files

• Publish multiple presentations in one or more PDF or DWF files

Module 20: Export / Import Formats

• Approach to different file formats import and export

Module 21: The templates

• Template Creation (DWT)
• Reminder on the use of drawing templates