Cert Prep: AutoCAD for Drafting and Design Professional

Introduction

• What is AutoCAD certification?
• Use the Autodesk website to get information
• Other suggested pre-exam courses
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Application and Drawing Management

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

2. Design Annotation and Detailing

• Create and apply annotation styles (OVERVIEW)
• Create, manage, and apply annotation styles
• Create, manage, and apply table styles
• Apply annotative scaling to design content (OVERVIEW)
• Create and manage drawing scales in a drawing
• Add, delete, and manage scales assigned to annotative objects
• Manage the scale positions of annotative objects
• Manage annotative objects to display properly in viewports
• Add annotations to designs (OVERVIEW)
• Create and modify annotations such as text, multileader, and dimensions
• Create and modify tables

3. Author and Edit Drawing Content

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

4. Configure and Manage Design Output

• Configure production drawing output (OVERVIEW)
• Configure and manage named page setups applied to layouts
• Create layout viewports
• Manage layout viewports
• Plot and/or publish production drawing output (OVERVIEW)
• Define and manage a sheet list to publish multiple drawings
• Configure and use an Electronic Transmittal package (eTransmit)
• Use the Sheet Set Manager (Win) or Project Manager (Mac) (OVERVIEW)
• Create a new sheet (layout) within a sheet set (project)
• Modify sheet (layout) and sheet set (project) properties and generate sheet list (layout) tables

5. Collaboration

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

Conclusion

• Booking your Autodesk Certified Professional exam