AutoCAD 3D

Course details

1.  Introduction to AutoCAD
• AutoCAD a brief look
• Introduction to AutoCAD user interface

2.  Introduction to AutoCAD 3D
• Basic AutoCAD draw tools
• Understanding visual styles
• Understanding views, viewcube and Navigation Bar

3.  Basic AutoCAD Solid Modelling
• Working with Solid primitives
• AutoCAD solid modelling tools
• Basic solid editing commands
• Align, Slice, Shell, Fillet and Chamfer tools

4.  Solid Modification
• Boolean operations
• Working with section Plane
• Working with Model space viewport
• Using FLATSHOT command for 3D to 2D conversion
• Working with 3D gizmo

5.  Navigation in 3D
• Working with 3D UCS (User co-ordinate system)
• Understading Mesh objects
• Converting to solid, Surface and Mesh
• Modifying mesh to create geometries

6.  Surface modeling
• Basic surface modeling tools
• Network and Planar surface tools
• Blend, Patch, and Offset surface tools
• Understanding surface associativity
• Fillet, trim, Sculpt and Project to UCS tools

7.  Working with External 3D models
• Saving 3D drawings in different formats
• Importing drawings from other softwares
• Getting 3D blocks from Autodesk seek
• Exporting drawing in different formats

8.  Layout and Viewport
• Drafting setup and page setup for layout
• Creating Top, Front, Isometric views from 3D
• Creating sectional and detail views
• Dimensioning in layout view
• Inserting title block and other text information
• Working with layout viewports

9.  Rendering and Presentation
• Preparing scene, camera and view
• Creating a rendering with default settings
• Adding artificial lights
• Adding background and presets
• Creating and saving high quality rendering