Cert Prep: AutoCAD for Drafting and Design Professional (2019)

5h 10mIntermediate2019-11-19

Authors

Shaun Bryant

Autodesk Certified Instructor in both AutoCAD and Revit Architecture

Course details

Become an Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP). This training course helps you study for the Autodesk Certified Professional: AutoCAD for Drafting and Design exam. Shaun Bryant helps you understand the pathway to this valuable credential—designed for CAD professionals who possess more advanced skills and can solve complex workflow and design challenges. Shaun walks through the drawing skills, object manipulation techniques, and organization skills necessary to pass the certification exam. Discover how to create advanced drawing objects such as polylines, xlines, multilines, and isometric drawings; isolate and group objects with selections; manage layers efficiently; and use advanced object snaps. You can also review techniques for reusing content, annotating drawings, and setting your AutoCAD designs up for plotting and printing.

Learning objectives
What is AutoCAD certification?
Drawing advanced objects
Working with regions and multilines
Selecting objects
Copying properties from one object to another
Working with layer states and layer filters
Applying advanced object snaps
Moving and rotating the UCS origin
Rotating and scaling objects
Trimming and extending objects
Customizing viewports
Publishing drawings
Annotating drawings
Creating layouts
Creating reusable content with blocks
Working with XREFs

Skills covered

AutoCAD2D Drafting and DrawingBIMAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingCert PrepAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Being an Autodesk AutoCAD Certified Professional
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files
04 - Using the AutoCAD 2020 interface

1. Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP)

05 - What is Autodesk Certification
06 - Certiport - The Autodesk exam provider

2. Creating Advanced Drawing Objects

07 - Working with polylines, arcs, polygons, and splines
08 - Editing polylines, arcs, polygons, and splines
09 - Working with regions
10 - Creating xlines and rays
11 - Working with multilines
12 - Creating 2D isometric drawings

3. Select and Organize Objects

13 - Using Quick Select
14 - Selecting similar objects
15 - Isolating and hiding objects in a drawing
16 - Controlling draw order of overlapping objects
17 - Copying properties from one object to another
18 - Removing objects from a selection set

4. Manage Layers

19 - Working with layer states
20 - Working with layer filters
21 - Applying and removing layer overrides per viewport
22 - Using Layer Walk to display layers
23 - Removing layers from a drawing
24 - Controlling the properties of referenced layers (XREFs)

5. Applying Advanced Object Snaps

25 - Utilizing object snap tracking with quadrant, apparent intersect, extension, and parallel
26 - Utilizing object snap tracking with geometric center and mid between two points (M2P)
27 - Working with Polar Tracking (POLAR) settings

6. Control the User Coordinate System (UCS)

28 - Understanding the UCS icon
29 - Moving and rotating the UCS origin
30 - Restoring the UCS to WCS (World) settings and previous UCS settings
31 - Using named UCS definitions and preset orientations

7. Advanced Editing Functions

32 - Rotating and scaling objects
33 - Working with rectangular and polar arrays
34 - Working with path arrays
35 - Using the Trim, Extend, and Lengthen commands
36 - Advanced use of the Offset command
37 - Working with grips
38 - Lengthening arcs
39 - Creating fillets between parallel objects and creating corners between non-parallel objects

8. Advanced Layouts, Printing, and Alternative Outputs

40 - Using the Page Setup Manager
41 - Defining and applying custom scales (Scale List)
42 - Customize the size and shape of viewport boundaries
43 - Assign a named view to a viewport
44 - Publish one or more drawings to a plotter, printer, DWF, or PDF file
45 - Creating a zipped transmittal package (eTransmit)
46 - Saving objects in a drawing to a different file format
47 - Controlling how objects appear during output using plot styles (CTB STB)
48 - Working with color-dependent (CTB) and named (STB) plot style tables

9. Annotation Techniques

49 - Create and modify revision clouds and wipeouts
50 - Using Drawing Compare
51 - Working with hatch and fill options and recreating hatch boundaries
52 - Creating and applying text styles with specific text properties
53 - Adding columns and table data to your drawings, including field data
54 - Working with multileaders creating, modifying, add, remove, align, collect
55 - Adding symbols from the character map to drawings
56 - Working with spelling and dictionaries
57 - Creating multiple dimensions with a single command continue, baseline
58 - Associating and re-associating dimensions to object geometry
59 - Adding dimension spacing and dimension breaks in a drawing
60 - Applying annotative properties to objects text, dimensions, multileaders, hatching
61 - Working with annotative settings annotation scale and applying annotative scaling

10. Reusable Content and Drawing Management

62 - Inserting and modifying blocks ByBlock, insertion units, blocks with attributes, Enhanced Attribute Editor
63 - Creating and modifying block definitions redefining a block, Block Editor, defining attributes
64 - Modifying attribute definitions with the Block Attribute Manager (BATTMAN)
65 - Working with External references (XREFs) attaching XREFs and underlays, clipping, visibility
66 - Layer naming conventions when binding XREFs
67 - Adjusting the settings of an underlay file or image
68 - Snapping to objects in XREF and underlay files
69 - Creating a hyperlink to another file or webpage
70 - Using the Blocks palette, DesignCenter, and tool palettes
71 - Create and manage object sets with groups
72 - Transfer information between drawing files