AutoCAD 2D Detailed Course Plan
Total Course Duration: 40 Hours
Total Number of Classes: 20
Duration Per Class: 2 Hours

🔹 Module 1: Getting Started with AutoCAD

Class 1 – Introduction to AutoCAD
• Overview of CAD and its applications
• Launching AutoCAD, Workspaces
• GUI and interface tour 📘 Exercise: Familiarization task – draw a basic layout (e.g., rectangle + circles)

Class 2 – Coordinate Systems & Drafting Settings
• Absolute, Relative, and Polar coordinates
• Snap, Grid, Ortho, Polar Tracking, Object Snap (OSNAP) 📘 Exercise: Create geometric shapes using coordinate inputs and drafting aids

🔹 Module 2: Drawing & Modifying Entities

Class 3 – Entity Creation (Part 1)
• Line, Circle, Rectangle, Arc, Polygon, Ellipse 📘 Exercise: Draw a mechanical or architectural sketch using basic entities

Class 4 – Entity Creation (Part 2) + File Handling
• Polyline, Donut, Construction Line, Spline
• Save, Open, Import/Export files 📘 Exercise: Create a flower or gear shape with advanced entities

Class 5 – Entity Modification (Part 1)
• Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale 📘 Exercise: Modify an existing layout with these commands

Class 6 – Entity Modification (Part 2)
• Trim, Extend, Mirror, Offset, Fillet, Chamfer 📘 Exercise: Redraw a floor plan or part drawing using full modification tools

🔹 Module 3: Annotations, Layers & Object Management

Class 7 – Annotation and Text
• Single-line and Multiline text
• Text styles and justification 📘 Exercise: Add labels and notes to a drawing

Class 8 – Object Properties & Layers
• Line types, colors, weights
• Creating and managing layers 📘 Exercise: Apply layers and properties to organize a drawing

Class 9 – Dimensioning & Dimension Styles
• Linear, Aligned, Angular, Radius
• Create and edit dimension styles 📘 Exercise: Dimension an architectural plan or part

🔹 Module 4: Advanced Drawing Tools

Class 10 – Object Selection & Grip Editing
• Selection methods (window, crossing, filters)
• Grip editing basics 📘 Exercise: Reshape objects using grips and advanced selection

Class 11 – Hatch Patterns and Gradient Fills
• Hatch creation, editing, associativity 📘 Exercise: Hatch rooms or components in a plan

Class 12 – Blocks and Block Attributes
• Define, insert, edit blocks
• Add and extract attributes 📘 Exercise: Create a reusable title block with name/date/ID attributes

Class 13 – Dynamic Blocks & Parameters
• Visibility states, lookup tables, stretch and rotate actions 📘 Exercise: Create a dynamic door or window block

🔹 Module 5: Tools, References & File Enhancements

Class 14 – Measuring & Inquiry Tools
• DIST, AREA, LIST, ID, Quick-Calc 📘 Exercise: Measure floor areas and distances in a plan

Class 15 – External References & OLE
• XREF management
• Embedding Excel, Word via OLE 📘 Exercise: Reference a structural layout into an architectural plan

Class 16 – Design Center & Tool Palettes
• Using AutoCAD Design Center
• Customizing tool palettes 📘 Exercise: Import symbols/components from Design Center

🔹 Module 6: Finishing & Plotting

Class 17 – Slide Creation & Scripts
• Create slides, simple automation with scripts 📘 Exercise: Prepare slides of multiple views for presentation

Class 18 – Explode, Markup & Drawing Checks
• Explode, Markup tools
• Drawing cleanup and integrity check 📘 Exercise: Final prep of a DWG before plotting

Class 19 – Plotting & Publishing
• Page setup, Plot Styles (CTB/STB), Viewports
• Publishing PDFs 📘 Exercise: Create a layout and print to PDF

Class 20 – Final Project + Review
• Hands-on project (House Plan or Mechanical Component)
• Includes Layers, Blocks, Dimensions, Hatches, Plotting 📘 Exercise: Final full drawing + review quiz + feedback session