Learn how to use AutoCAD to develop CAD standards quickly and effectively.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The purpose of standards in AutoCAD
- Using standards in AutoCAD
- Setting up standards in AutoCAD
- Using layer standards in AutoCAD
- Using text style standards in AutoCAD
- Using dimension style standards in AutoCAD
- Using multileader style standards in AutoCAD
- Documenting standards for internal use
- United States National CAD Standard (US NCS)
- US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- AEC (UK) CAD and BIM Standards
- BIMuk BS1192:2007
- Named objects for standards checking
- Creating a standards file (DWS)
- Running a standards audit
- Using standards plugins
- Changing standards settings
- Setting up standard layers
- Setting up standard units
- Setting up standard text styles
- Setting up a standard dimension style
- Setting up a standard multileader style
- Setting up a standard title block
- Setting a page setup
- Setting up a default viewport
- Saving the DWG file as a template file (DWT)
- Opening a new drawing from a DWT file
- Using the standardized settings to create drawing content
- Annotating to standardized settings
- Dimensioning to standardized settings
- Using annotative scaling
- Checking all standardized settings
- Configuring the standards in the DWS file
- Checking the DWG against the DWS file
- Checking standards violations
- Using the Layer Translator to set standardized layers
- Finding the layer translation log file
- Working with the page setup
- Using the Publish command (batch plotting)
- Using the eTransmit command
- Publishing out to a PDF file
- Publishing out to a DWF file
- Next steps
Taught by
Shaun Bryant