AR1017 : CAD LEVEL 3 – Advanced Topics

Class test: (6 marks)

PART 1. Test to understand missing concepts of week 1 and 2: here (you have one attempt, 1 hour and 30 minutes to answer the test) – 5 marks for the final grade

PART 2. Test yourself by drawing this

PART 3. Test yourself by drawing this – 6 marks for the final

Example file

Please download this file

Concepts covered for the week are as follows. You can click the topic to see a 15 minute video for instructions.

  1. Units in Autocad, defining a unit of measure
  2. Blocks creating and Inserting from Autocad design centre, autodesk seek.
  3. Working with Text, Mtext, Text styles, Annotative Text
  4. Working with Dimensions, dimension styles, Annotative dimensions
  5. LayoutsViewports
  6. Making a Titleblock template
  7. Linetype and Linetype scale, Linetype Manager
  8. Layers and layer properties manager

Architects Practice- Draw and Print the following Toilets on a scale of 1:20. click here and here for the sketches

Engineers Practice – Draw and print any one of the following pages with Autocad using annotative dimensions and text. Print to mentioned Scale. Download the file here

The motive of the submission is to understand how to make a professional autocad drawing. You are to integrate all the above topics above into making your drawing. 

  1. Deadline for submission: 45 mins in class.
  2. Total Marks towards final = 4 Marks
  3. Rubrick:
    1. For every following mistake made 0.125 marks shall be deducted.
      • Inaccurate lines / dimensions
      • Incomplete text / dimensions
    2.  For every following mistake made 0.25 marks shall be deducted
      • No template
      • Drawings not placed on viewports
      • Complete lack of Dimension styles / text-styles
      • Complete lack of Linetypes
      • Complete lack of Layers

Submission procedure (Important!!)

Please follow the following steps.

  1. Save your CAD file as “Your first name-week number”.dwg.. example mine would be Varun-3.dwg
  2. Login to Dropbox (sketchpad.1963@gmail.com – modelspace)
  3. Upload your drawing inside your folder – Dropbox>Submissions>Axx00x0x>First Partial> upload your .dwg file

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