AutoCAD for Design and Drafting Professional
Certification Prep
Professional | ~1 hr. 55 min.
Author and edit drawing content
Module | Certification prep
Creating and reusing drawing content are core skills for CAD professionals. Learn to
use blocks and the clipboard to improve the efficiency of design drawings, create
geometry, and then edit the geometry using grips and other precision ttools
ools in
AutoCAD.
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
Reuse and leverage existing design content.
Create and edit geometry.
Edit geometry with grips and multifunctional grips.
Draw and edit with precision.
Exam objectives covered in this module
3.1 Reuse and leverage existing design content
3.2 Create and edit geometry
3.3 Edit geometry with grips and multifunctional grips
3.4 Draw and edit with precision
Track your learning progress.
Outline
1 Getting started
Module overview
Course overview
Get the software
Course resources
2 About the certification
Module overview
Exam details
Sample test questions
Test taking tips
3 See where you stand
Module overview
Pre-test
4 Application and drawing management
Module overview
Assign and manage layer properties
Apply layer property overrides in viewports
Create and manage layer filters
Determine the origin of xref layers
Manage user coordinate systems
Modify objects using the Properties palette
Analyze and query values of geometric objects
Analyze quantities of blocks in a drawing
Use common tool palette interface behaviors
Customize content on the user interface
Perform drawing maintenance
Use the purge tools to manage content
Use the Drawing Recovery Manager
Practice Exercise: Manage layers and query objects
Practice Exercise: Manage drawing health
Challenge Exercise: Configure a paper space viewport and apply furniture
5 Design annotation and detailing
Module overview
Create and manage annotation styles
Create and manage table styles
Create and manage drawing scales
Add and manage scales assigned to annotative objects
Create and modify annotations
Create and modify tables
Practice Exercise: Manage and create annotations
Challenge Exercise: Create annotation styles, apply annotation scales, and
work with tables
6 Author and edit drawing content
Module overview
Create, manage, and edit block definitions
Write blocks or objects to an external drawing
Access blocks and block libraries
Access and use the clipboard
Create arcs with different values
Create polylines from existing objects
Apply an offset to existing geometry
Define boundaries for creating hatches
Define and edit associative arrays
Access modify commands using grips
Edit geometry using multiple grips
Edit using dynamic input and multifunctional grips
Create and edit objects using dynamic input
Create and edit objects using object snaps
Use multiple coordinate entry methods
Practice Exercise: Create geometry and reuse design content
Practice Exercise: Draw with precision and edit with grips
Challenge Exercise: Edit a block definition
7 Configure and manage design output
Module overview
Configure and apply named page setups
Create layout viewports
Manage layout viewports
Define and manage a sheet list
Configure an Electronic Transmittal package
Create a new sheet within a sheet set
Modify sheet and sheet set properties
Practice Exercise: Configure and manage design output
8 Collaboration
Module overview
Collaborate and use shared files
Create and manage Traces
Compare objects between drawings
Manage xref types
Manage xref paths
Manage image and underlay frames
Create and manage PDF imports
Create and manage tables using data links
Display dynamic data using fields
Practice Exercise: Collaborate and work with external data
9 Course challenge
Module overview
Course challenge: Create a new layout for a furniture plan
10 Practice test
Module overview
Start your practice test
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