Layouts and printing in AutoCAD2023-03-08T12:48:09+05:30

Layout and printing in AutoCAD course.

Learn everything about layouts, scale and printing tools of AutoCAD in detail.

22 Video lessons

2.40 Hours of video

2 Student Projects

3 Practice exercises

Certificate of completion

15 MCQ Quizzes

Intermediate and advance level

Downloadable lesson files

Recommended For

Architects, Civil engineers, Interior designers, Mechanical engineers, Electrical engineers, Product designers and hobbyists who want to learn all about printing drawings with proper scale, settings and details using AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.

About this course

Generating final output with proper settings is always crucial to any project and you should know the proper use of paper space and methods of using it to create clean and professional print ready drawings.

So, this course will help you create professional-quality prints with proper scale and settings. This course covers everything about printing and plotting right from the basics of making viewports to making plot style tables.

Most of the advanced printing and plotting tools like markup set manager and setting scales including the annotative scale option are also included in this course along with the general printing and plotting tools and commands.

The course covers printing tools for 2D as well as 3D drawings.

Who should take this course

This course is made for users who know the basics of AutoCAD like simple draw, modify commands and working with layers.

Pre-requisites

AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT 2016 up to the latest version on Windows operating system is recommended for the course.

Table of Contents.

  1. Introduction to the course (2:47)
  2. Lesson files

  1.  Understanding units and Limits (6:59)
  2. Introduction to paper space or layout (6:11)
  3. Page setup for layout (7:27)
  4. Importing page setup (2:09)
  5. Making and clipping viewports (8:42)
  6. Setting scale of objects in viewports (9:26)
  7. Managing layer visibility in viewports (4:58)
  8. Inserting title block and ruler in layout (3:57)
  9. Plotting from model space with proper scale (7:41)
  10. Plotting a drawing from layout (3:55)
  11. Practice exercise (1:52)
  12. Quiz

  1.  Making and using color plot style table (6:33)
  2. Making and using named plot style table (6:03)
  3. Understanding Annotative property (6:28)
  4. Making annotative objects (9:55)
  5. Markup set manager (10:16)
  6. Detail look at plot stamp (5:36)
  7. Practice exercise (1:12)
  8. Quiz

  1.  Creating 2D views from 3D (7:08)
  2. Creating section and detail views (7:22)
  3. Changing properties of views (7:59)
  4. Plotting from Layout (8:09)
  5. Creating views in model space (9:01)
  6. Plotting 3D drawing from model space (6:16)
  7. Practice exercise (1:37)
  8. Quiz

  1. Final notes and next steps (1:14)

Jaiprakash Pandey

About the author.

Jaiprakash Pandey is the published author of “Practical AutoCAD book” by Packt publication he is also an Autodesk AutoCAD certified professional and Autodesk expert elite community. He has been delivering CAD training to corporate clients for more than 8 years and his clients include Steel, Power, Automobile industries and also government organizations, fortune 500 companies and the military.

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All our instructors are professionals and certified in their respective software and technology skills. They also bring their extensive industrial experience to these courses.

Course completion certificates

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Real world projects

You can practice with real-world projects after finishing every course, and you can also share these projects with the instructor for feedback.

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Practice exercises and quizzes

Every course section has practice exercises and quizzes that will help you assess your performance before going to the next section of the course.

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