Description:

The seminar familiarizes student with AutoCAD drawing software and is focused on its practical and efficient use within building construction and architecture design. Students will learn to work with 2D geometry, such as drawing floor plans, sections, details, views; their annotating, dimensioning and hatching; creation and using blocks, tables; work with layers and line types; printing in various scales and on various paper formats and printers; creating templates for further work.

Contents:

The course has no lectures.

Seminar contents:

1. CAD systems in civil engineering. Obtaining student version of AutoCAD. Examples of seminar work. Organizational matters. Introduction to AutoCAD environment and work. Drawing utilities - object snap, ortho, tracking...
2. Bathroom floor plan: Drawing units. Layers, colours, line types and line weights. Drawing and modification commands, editing using grips.
3. Bathroom floor plan continuation: Sanitary equipment, blocks. Further drawing and modification commands.
4. Blocks and bathroom floor plan finishing.
5. Bathroom annotation: Texts and descriptions, blocks with attributes.
6. Bathroom annotation: Dimensions, multileaders.
7. Bathroom annotation: Hatches, tables (table of rooms creation), fields.
8. Publishing: Work with layouts, printers, paper sizes, printing scales. Adjustment of the drawing for multi-scale publishing (the same resulting size of annotations for different scales). Printing to PDF, JPG, DWF.
9. Publishing finishing. Annotative behaviour.
10. Drag drawing content (layers, annotation styles, blocks, layouts etc.) between drawings. Drawing templates creation and setting. Purge command.
11. Creation and usage of block libraries. Coordinate system, views.
12. Seminar work, consultation.

Recommended literature:

Autodesk AutoCAD guide
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2022/ENU/ (sections Getting Started, AutoCAD User's Guide)

Keywords:

AutoCAD, 2D documentation, floor plan

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar