AutoCAD is a very important drafting tool that is widely used across multiple industries. The drafts created using AutoCAD is used by the Manufacturing team to create processes to manufacture the part. Post Manufacturing these drawings are used by the quality team to inspect dimensions and tolerance of the produced part against the drawings to make sure that the sufficient quality is achieved It doesn't stop there. These drawings are used by the Assembly team to check assembly tolerance is up to set standards. In short, AutoCAD is a comprehensive drating tool and when you get started with it, you will learn the following.

- Overview of AutoCAD & drafting principles - The interface of AutoCAD – New file. Save, and open DWG files. - Drafting fundamentals: Line, circle, arc, ellipse, erase, oops

The difference between a regular drawing and an engineering drawing boils down to one simple thing - Precision. An Engineering drawing communicates the location and position of the various elements in an exact manner. This helps in clear communication across different teams that work with these drawings. Hence, one has to first learn the various tools of AutoCAD that can help an engineer achieve this level of precision. This is exactly what you will learn in this module. To be precise, you will learn the following topics.

- Intro to coordinate systems – Absolute, Relative rectangular, relative polar coordinate systems - Perspectives - Drafting settings – Object snap - Dynamic inputs - Limits, Units - Editing fundamentals: Move, copy, array, break, Mirror, offset,

Remember, engineering assemblies are complex. To analyze them, you have to look at them from multiple angles, control model visibility to essential get an x-ray vision. These tools are used to get a complete understanding of a component. In this module, the following components are covered to help you get accustomed to visualizing the parts or features that you care about the most.

- Navigation techniques – Zoom, pan, steering wheels

- Selection techniques – Box, fence, group, multiple, single, auto - More drafting: Solid, donut

An engineering drawing is made readable by adding texts and visual aids to help the engineer get the details that he/she seeks. AutoCAD provides a ton of features that helps you with this. Here is a list of features that you will learn in this course.

- Editing techniques: Text, mtext, styles, color, line type, line weight, editing with grips - Stretch, scale, extend, join, trim, rotate, trim, lengthen

Any product has to be designed and then produced. Design exists in a piece of paper or a file in a computer. However, a manufactured product is real and is quite hard to create. Manufacturability means the ability to Manufacture. A design that cannot be manufactured has no use. AutoCAD provides tools that lets you create designs that are Manufacturable or at least check if they are. The following key concepts are covered to teach you how to implement techniques that make your designs Manufacturable.

- Bhatch, Pline, Pedit, Fillet, chamfer, spline - Inquiry techniques:, Id, list, dist, radius, angle, area, volume

In order to produce quality parts, a set of specifications that are logical, needs to exist. These are called GD&T requirements. In this module, we will first give you an overview of GD&T and teach you different Dimensioning techniques that need to be followed to make designs more readable by the Manufacturing, Assembly and Quality Control teams. We will also teach you additional quality and file management tools such as, Tolerance, Leader, multileader, revcloud, Dimensioning edits

Once we have completed the core fundamentals, we will teach you tools that you can use to focus on improving your productivity. The following key tools and techniques are covered to help you with this.

• External referencing -xref,xbind, AutoCAD design centre, tool pallets, Xplode
• Plotting, plot styles and publish drawings
• Layout management, Model space and Paper space, floating viewports