This Level 2 course will enhance the student’s current knowledge in order to produce drawings much more efficiently and effectively. It is the direct continuation of AutoCAD for design level 1 course, which provided the student with an introduction to the principles of using computer-assisted drafting and design (CADD) to produce architectural floor plans.

Several shortcuts to create drawings quicker will be covered. A typical drawing package with Plans, elevations, sections and details will be created in the Assignments.

Intermediate

Autocad Level 1 Course completed or complete knowledge of its syllabus

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Generate a typical working drawing package
• Generate various kinds of drawings such as plans, elevations, sections and details
• Format a drawing much quicker
• Use various draw and modify commands to increase drawing production
• Add various types of annotative objects such as tags and schedules and legends

• Creating template files, source files
• Using Design Center to transfer existing information (layers, blocks, text style, dim style)
• Tool palette
• Command Aliases
• Layer Translator
• Layer filters
• What is an as-built drawing
• Multiline command
• Stretch & Align command
• Array command
• Drawing a site plan
• Drawing a property line with surveyor units
• Drawing setback lines
• Drawing other site components
• True north versus project North
• Generating a demolition plan
• Labeling a drawing using multi-leaders
• Generating a Partition plan for new construction
• Creating different types of tags with attributes. I.e. door, windows, wall tags
• Creating schedules and legends using tables
• Generating a Furniture plan
• Furniture tags with invisible attributes
• Data extraction table
• Creating Elevations from floor plans using the flower petal method
• Generating building sections
• Generating connection details
• Using external references with CAD files and image files and Excel spreadsheets