Architectural AutoCAD Drafting

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: About me

Chapter 2: LAYER NAMING AS PER INDUSTRY STANDARDS

Lecture 1: CAD Standards [USACE, USNCS & BIM UK ] – Layers & Layer naming

Lecture 2: USNCS- United States National CAD Standard on Naming CAD Layers

Lecture 3: BIM UK accordance with BS1192 2007 and Uniclass

Chapter 3: SCALING LAND SURVEY PLAN AND SITE PLAN (Civil)

Lecture 1: Land survey plan and Site plan

Lecture 2: Whole Circle Bearing (WCB) and Reduced Bearing (RB)

Lecture 3: Choosing the template & Inserting the image

Lecture 4: North Alignment

Lecture 5: Layer properties as per standards (BIM UK – BS1192:2007 and Uniclass)

Lecture 6: Line types and Lineweights of the layers

Lecture 7: Tracing the Land Boundary – using image

Lecture 8: Tracing the Land Boundary using East and North coordinates Ex 01

Lecture 9: Tracing the Land Boundary using East and North coordinates Ex 02

Lecture 10: Tracing the Land Boundary using the length and WCB angle (DMS) – Metric

Lecture 11: Tracing the Land Boundary using the length and RB angle (DMS) – Imperial

Lecture 12: Tracing the road

Lecture 13: Scaling the Land Survey Plan – Part 1

Lecture 14: Scaling the Land Survey Plan – Part 2

Lecture 15: Scaling the land survey plan – Single lot

Lecture 16: Scaling the land survey plan – Metric example

Lecture 17: North Symbol

Lecture 18: Lot Numbers and other text

Lecture 19: Existing Buildings in the Land Survey Plan

Lecture 20: Proposed Building in the Land Survey Plan

Lecture 21: Tracing the drain in the Land survey plan

Lecture 22: Septic tank and soakage pit

Lecture 23: Dimension Annotations

Lecture 24: Multileader Annotations

Chapter 4: WORKING WITH THE COORDINATE SYSTEM

Lecture 1: Working with single and multiple CAD files

Lecture 2: WCS, UCS and True North, Project North

Lecture 3: Coordinates systems with Named UCS

Lecture 4: Coordinates systems with Named UCS – Working with multiple CAD files

Lecture 5: Working with the coordinates in the Sample Project

Chapter 5: FOUNDATION LAYOUT (STRUCTURAL)

Lecture 1: Grid line

Lecture 2: Grid Bubble and Text

Lecture 3: Column & Footing

Lecture 4: Dimensioning

Lecture 5: Coordinates and North arrow

Lecture 6: Grid line using dynamic block

Lecture 7: Drawing Title using dynamic block

Lecture 8: Column Hatch

Lecture 9: Foundation Layout – Grid – Metric

Lecture 10: Foundation Layout – Column and footing – Metric Part 1

Lecture 11: Foundation Layout – Column and footing – Metric Part 2

Lecture 12: Foundation Layout – Beam – Metric Part 1

Lecture 13: Foundation Layout – Beam – Metric Part 2

Lecture 14: Foundation Layout – Hidden footing

Lecture 15: Foundation Layout – Footing and Beam tag – Metric

Lecture 16: Foundation Layout – Dimension – Metric

Lecture 17: Foundation Layout – View title and Section symbol – Metric

Lecture 18: Foundation Layout – Section Callout – Metric

Lecture 19: Highlighting using layer colour

Chapter 6: OPENING BLOCK – DOORS & WINDOWS

Lecture 1: Door Blocks – D1, D2 and D3 – Plan

Lecture 2: D1 Panel door elevation

Lecture 3: D2 & D3 Flush door elevation

Lecture 4: Typical Window in Plan view

Lecture 5: Shutter division in Window

Lecture 6: Windows and Fanlight – W1, W2 & F

Lecture 7: W1 – Window Elevation

Chapter 7: FLOOR PLAN

Lecture 1: Column and Grid

Lecture 2: Exterior Walls

Lecture 3: Interior walls Part 1

Lecture 4: Interior walls Part 2

Lecture 5: Parapet wall

Lecture 6: Floor

Lecture 7: Staircase Part 1

Lecture 8: Staircase Part 2

Lecture 9: Placement of a Window

Lecture 10: Line weight standard checkup

Lecture 11: The sanitary fixtures of toilet and bath

Lecture 12: Column Hatching

Lecture 13: Wall Hatching

Lecture 14: Floor Hatching

Lecture 15: Annotative room tag

Lecture 16: Annotative dimension

Lecture 17: Door tag

Lecture 18: Window tag Part 1

Lecture 19: Window tag Part 2

Lecture 20: First Floor plan_Working with Entrance Door and Stair

Lecture 21: First Floor plan_UP and Down Arrow of the Stair

Lecture 22: First Floor Plan_Railing_Balcony Part 1

Lecture 23: First Floor Plan_Railing_Balcony Part 2

Lecture 24: First Floor Plan_Floor Level, Parapet wall and stair railing

Lecture 25: Opening placement without trim and extend the wall

Lecture 26: Smarter Window Block

Lecture 27: Smarter Door Block

Lecture 28: Door & Window placement without trim and extend the wall

Lecture 29: Floor plan – Industrial metric

Lecture 30: Floor plan – Industrial metric – Cavity and Solid Wall

Lecture 31: Floor plan – Industrial metric- Windows placement method 1

Lecture 32: Floor plan – Industrial metric- Windows placement method 2

Lecture 33: Floor plan – Industrial metric- Doors placement