Description

This course will allow you to master the 3D drawing functions and techniques of AutoCAD 2016/2015. You will learn to model and edit 3D projects and create animations and computer-generated images renderings.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Managers, architects, engineers, technicians, draftsmen, drawing designers in design offices involved in the production and modification of 3D plans.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Discover the 3D working environment of AutoCAD

Understand the 3D drawing functions of AutoCAD

Modeling mechanical parts in 3DDesign views

Create and modify 3D projects

Training program

• Introduction
  • - Getting started with the AutoCAD 3D environment.
  • - General Coordinate System: SCG.
  • - User Coordinate System: SCU.
  • - The Gizmos (Local Coordinate System).
  • - Define a new 3-point UCS.
  • - Adapt the UCS to a non-orthogonal plane.
  • - Object tracking and polar tracking.
  • - Dynamic User Coordinate System: SCUD.
  • - Practical work Demonstration of AutoCAD 2016/2015 functionalities.
• Visualization
  • - Predefined views.
  • - Creating and manipulating views.
  • - Multiwindowing.
  • - Orbit, free orbit and continuous orbit.
  • - Panoramics, navigation, movement.
  • - Practical work Design of a view.
• Modeling
  • - 3D wire objects.
  • - Creation and assembly of 3D solids.
  • - 3D primitives.
  • - Polysolid.
  • - Creating solids and surfaces from lines or curves.
  • - Extrude, Sweep, Revolve and Smooth.
  • - Creating 3D mesh.
  • - Work the faces, edges and vertices.
  • - Smooth and refine the mesh.
  • - Creating a cutting plane.
  • - Generate 2D to from a 3D model.
  • - Creation of a section.
  • - Practical work Modeling a 3D mechanical part.
• Editing 2D and 3D objects
  • - 3D surface editing and modification.
  • - 3D solid editing and modification.
  • - 3D mesh editing and modification.
  • - 3D moving , 3D rotation and 3D symmetry.
  • - Extrude faces, move, offset faces, erase and copy faces, rotate, taper and color faces.
  • - 3D rectangular array and array 3D polar.
  • - Gizmo: moving, rotating and 3D scaling.
  • - Boolean operations: union, subtraction, intersection, interference.
  • - Practical work Creation of a steam engine connecting rod.
• Visual styles
  • - 2D Wireframe, Conceptual, Shaded with Edges, Masked, and Realistic visual style.
  • - Export a new visual style.
  • - Bring out details in designs with enhancements such as line fading.
  • - Rendering quality.
  • - Ray tracing.
  • - Saving the rendering.
  • - Jobs practical Construction of a studio in 3D.
  • - Modeling a sofa and a table with chairs.