DraftSight Essentials : scale drawing with CAD software

DraftSight Essentials : scale drawing with CAD software, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 28 lectures, based on 222 reviews, and has 647 subscribers.

You will learn about How to use all the essential CAD drawing tools How to use all the really important and time saving editing tools How to set up drawings to print at different scales, either to paper or as a PDF Tips based on decades of practical drawing experience with CAD in a wide range of applications Interactive hands-on drawing exercises throughout the course Save hours and hours on drawings by learning simple professional techniques This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to learn CAD for accurate drawings; building, crafts, hobbies. It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to learn CAD for accurate drawings; building, crafts, hobbies.

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Summary

Title: DraftSight Essentials : scale drawing with CAD software

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 28

Number of Published Lectures: 28

Number of Curriculum Items: 28

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 28

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to use all the essential CAD drawing tools
How to use all the really important and time saving editing tools
How to set up drawings to print at different scales, either to paper or as a PDF
Tips based on decades of practical drawing experience with CAD in a wide range of applications
Interactive hands-on drawing exercises throughout the course
Save hours and hours on drawings by learning simple professional techniques

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to learn CAD for accurate drawings; building, crafts, hobbies.

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to learn CAD for accurate drawings; building, crafts, hobbies.

Computer Aided Design, or CAD, is so much easier to learn than most people realise, and really takes the hard work out of any kind of technical drawing. Download the Standard version of DraftSight, a professional quality CAD program, and learn how to use it here.

More and more, computer drawing of all kinds is moving into everyday life. Now you can learn to produce accurate scale drawings in a fraction of the time it takes to draw something on paper. DraftSight really is the best possible choice for the occasional user, as it brings really top quality CAD skills within your reach at minimal cost. What is more, being able to produce your own scale drawings could save you a great deal of money, in fees.

Even better, DraftSight is compatible with the industry standard, AutoCAD, and has a very similar set of tools. Learn one, and you can almost certainly use the other really quickly. It is supported by a major corporation with vast experience in drawing software, and it is a cross platform application, running on Windows, Mac and Unix. Millions of people worldwide are already benefitting from this great program, so why not start acquiring another skill today and join them.

On the course you will learn;

To customise the workspace, and streamline the CAD screen
Simple drawing and editing tools, with hands on exercises for you to have a go at
Methods and tools which can help you draw more quickly
How to draw and edit things accurately, to size
Why Layers are really important to use
How to set up paper sizes and scales
Dimensioning drawings, one of the real CAD time savers
How to output your drawings as finished scale plans, either printed or as PDF files

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Clearing the Decks

Chapter 2: Basic drawing and editing

Lecture 1: Simple editing; trimming and extending lines

Lecture 2: Basic drawing tools: rectangles, circles, arcs, and polylines

Lecture 3: Drawing with precision

Lecture 4: The Snowman

Chapter 3: Speeding up the drawing

Lecture 1: Mirror, mirror;

Lecture 2: CAD yoga: Move and Stretch tools

Lecture 3: Real time savers; Ellipse and polygon tools

Lecture 4: The House

Chapter 4: Drawing by numbers

Lecture 1: Rectangles, circles and lines

Lecture 2: Copy, Offset and Rotate

Lecture 3: The House again

Chapter 5: Laying the groundwork

Lecture 1: Layer upon layer

Lecture 2: Hatching something

Lecture 3: Its a Plan

Chapter 6: Tearing off a sheet

Lecture 1: Introducing Sheets

Lecture 2: Fillet and Chamfer

Lecture 3: Viewports

Chapter 7: Dimensions

Lecture 1: Introducing Dimensions; setting up a style

Lecture 2: Refining my dimension style

Lecture 3: A bit more style refinement

Lecture 4: Dimensions and Sheets

Lecture 5: A Chest of Drawers

Chapter 8: Input and Output

Lecture 1: Getting help

Lecture 2: Customising toolbars

Lecture 3: Printing your stuff

Lecture 4: Bonus Lecture; coupons and offers here!

Instructors

Simon Rodway
Drawing software professional, designer and journalist

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3 stars: 31 votes
4 stars: 94 votes
5 stars: 95 votes

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