Cert Prep: AutoCAD for Drafting and Design Professional

6h 31mBeginner2023-09-05

Authors

Shaun Bryant

Autodesk Certified Instructor in both AutoCAD and Revit Architecture

Course details

This course helps you study for the Autodesk Certified Professional in AutoCAD for Design and Drafting certification exam. Shaun Bryant helps you understand the pathway to the Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP) credential— a worldwide, industry recognized benchmark that highlights your advanced AutoCAD skills and signals to employers that you are able to solve complex challenges in AutoCAD workflow, drafting, and design. Learn about application and drawing management, design annotation and detailing, how to create and edit drawing content, and how to configure and manage design output. Plus, discover the collaboration tools you can employ in AutoCAD, including how to provide feedback, use shared drawing files, incorporate external design data into project drawings, and create and manage PDF imports.

Skills covered

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

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - What is AutoCAD certification
02 - Use the Autodesk website to get information
03 - Other suggested pre-exam courses
04 - What you should know before watching this course
05 - Using the exercise files

1. Application and Drawing Management

06 - Create and manage layers (OVERVIEW)
07 - Assign and manage layer properties
08 - Apply layer property overrides in layout viewports
09 - Create and manage layer filters
10 - Determine the origin of xref layers (bound and non-bound)
11 - Manage user coordinate systems (OVERVIEW)
12 - Create and restore a named UCS
13 - Manage the UCS origin and rotation for specific project needs
14 - Query and manage drawing object properties (OVERVIEW)
15 - Analyze and modify objects within the Properties palette
16 - Leverage the MEASUREGEOM command to dynamically analyze and query values from geometric objects
17 - Use the COUNT command to analyze quantities of blocks in a drawing
18 - Manage the application environment (OVERVIEW)
19 - Use common palette interface behaviors
20 - Customize the content on the user interface
21 - Maintain and manage drawing health (OVERVIEW)
22 - Perform drawing maintenance using the AUDIT, RECOVER, and RECOVERALL commands
23 - Use the Purge tools to manage content within the AutoCAD drawing
24 - Use the Drawing Recovery Manager to access and restore temporary files

2. Design Annotation and Detailing

25 - Create and apply annotation styles (OVERVIEW)
26 - Create, manage, and apply annotation styles
27 - Create, manage, and apply table styles
28 - Apply annotative scaling to design content (OVERVIEW)
29 - Create and manage drawing scales in a drawing
30 - Add, delete, and manage scales assigned to annotative objects
31 - Manage the scale positions of annotative objects
32 - Manage annotative objects to display properly in viewports
33 - Add annotations to designs (OVERVIEW)
34 - Create and modify annotations such as text, multileader, and dimensions
35 - Create and modify tables

3. Author and Edit Drawing Content

36 - Reuse and leverage existing design content (OVERVIEW)
37 - Create, manage, and edit block definitions
38 - Use the WBLOCK command to write blocks or objects to an external drawing file
39 - Access blocks and block libraries using the Blocks palette
40 - Use the clipboard
41 - Create and edit geometry (OVERVIEW)
42 - Create arcs in multiple directions with different values (center, chord length, and angles)
43 - Create polylines from existing drawing objects
44 - Offset existing geometry
45 - Define boundaries and boundary sets to create hatches in a drawing
46 - Define and manage associative rectangular, polar, and path arrays
47 - Edit geometry with grips and multifunctional grips (OVERVIEW)
48 - Access alternate modify commands using grips
49 - Edit geometry by selecting multiple grips on the same object or multiple objects
50 - Edit geometry by combining dynamic input and multifunctional grips
51 - Draw and edit with precision (OVERVIEW)
52 - Use dynamic input to create and edit objects in a drawing
53 - Use object snap settings to create and edit objects
54 - Specify points using absolute, relative, or polar coordinates

4. Configure and Manage Design Output

55 - Configure production drawing output (OVERVIEW)
56 - Configure and manage named page setups applied to layouts
57 - Create layout viewports
58 - Manage layout viewports
59 - Plot and or publish production drawing output (OVERVIEW)
60 - Define and manage a sheet list to publish multiple drawings
61 - Configure and use an Electronic Transmittal package (eTransmit)
62 - Use the Sheet Set Manager (Win) or Project Manager (Mac) (OVERVIEW)
63 - Create a new sheet (layout) within a sheet set (project)
64 - Modify sheet (layout) and sheet set (project) properties and generate sheet list (layout) tables

5. Collaboration

65 - Provide design feedback (OVERVIEW)
66 - Collaborate and use shared drawing files
67 - Create and manage Traces
68 - Compare objects between multiple versions of drawings with compare tools
69 - Manage references and underlays (OVERVIEW)
70 - Manage the reference type of an xref (attach and overlay)
71 - Manage external reference paths and path types (full, absolute, relative, and none)
72 - Manipulate image and underlay frames
73 - Incorporate external design data into project drawings (OVERVIEW)
74 - Create and manage PDF imports
75 - Display dynamic data using fields

Conclusion

76 - Booking your Autodesk Certified Professional exam