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EKHO's highly successful AutocAD Level 1 for 2005 to 2007 Introductory (2D) course materials have now been professionally produced for your instant use as interactive Flash videos on a DVD at your AutoCAD workstation.  It includes:

        EKHO's Searchable, Linked Color PDF Book.
        Fully Interactive Flash Videos to walk you through every exercise with
       voice and crisp screen captured animations. (See Course Outline below
       for selected sample video links).

         Introductory AutoCAD 2006 Level 1 Video
        EKHO's highly refined proprietary exercise drawings used in the videos.
       AutoCAD Certification Exam type Quizzes to test your progress and
       comprehension plus give you feedback.
        Bonus Materials and exercises with automated scoring & feedback .

You will need the free Macromedia Flash player 7 or 8 on your computer to view these videos.

Select this link to see an actual partial working sample of the Video menu with the new integrated Self Scoring Quizzes from the DVD.

Course Outline
    (Scroll down to select links of sample videos)


1.GETTING STARTED.
  • Video Conventions.
  • Drawing Conventions.
  • Open existing drawings.
  • Start from scratch.
  • Using Templates.
  • Using the Wizard.
  • AutoCAD menus.
  • Screen Features.

2. BASICS.

  • Overview.
  • Mouse Functions.
  • Dynamic input.
  • LINE command.
  • CIRCLE command.
  • ERASE command.
  • UNDO & REDO.

3. VIEW COMMANDS.

  • Overview.
  • ZOOM Window.
  • ZOOM All.
  • ZOOM Center.
  • ZOOM Dynamic.
  • ZOOM Object.
  • RTZOOM.
  • PAN.
  • ATTDISP.
  • VIEW.

4. OBJECT SNAPS.

  • Overview.
  • Momentary OSNAPs.
  • Momentary OSNAPs 2.
  • Running OSNAPs.
  • CENTER OSNAP.
  • PERPENDICULAR OSNAP.

5. INQUIRY COMMANDS.

6. LAYERS.

  • Overview.
  • Dialogue tour.
  • Layer tool.
  • 2 ways to use Layers.
  • Layer filtering.
  • Transferring Objects.
  • Layer tips.
  • House plan Layers.

7. OBJECT PROPERTIES.

8. SCALE CONCEPTS.

9. DRAW COMMANDS.
  • ARC.
  • RAY & XLINE.
  • CIRCLE.
  • DONUT.
  • ELLIPSE.
  • BHATCH.
  • GRADIENT.
  • INSERT.
  • LINE.
  • PLINE.
  • POINT.
  • POLYGON.
  • RECTANGLE.
  • REVCLOUD.
  • DTEXT.
  • TEXT.
  • STYLE.
  • MLINE.
  • MTEXT.

10. DRAW ACCURATELY.

  • Overview.
  • Grid & SNAP (Level 1).
  • Object SNAP (Level 1).
  • Relative Coordinates (Level 1).
  • Polar SNAP (Level 2).
  • Object Tracking (Level 2).
  • Direct Distance (Level 2).

11. SELECTION TOOLS.

  • Overview.
  • Pickbox.
  • Window.
  • Crossing.
  • FENCE.
  • Add or Remove.
  • Last.
  • Previous.
  • All.
12.EDITING COMMANDS.
  • Overview.
  • ARRAY.
  • ALLIGN.
  • JOIN.
  • BREAK.
  • CHAMFER.
  • LENGTHEN.
  • HATCHEDIT.
  • PROPERTIES.
  • DDEDIT.
  • SPELL.
  • DIVIDE.
  • FILLET.
  • EXPLODE.
  • EXTEND.
  • ERASE.
  • MEASURE.
  • MIRROR.
  • COPY & MOVE.
  • OFFSET.
  • PEDIT.
  • ROTATE.
  • DRAWORDER.
  • SCALE.
  • STRETCH.
  • TRIM.
  • UNDO & REDO.
 13. GRIPS. 14. DIMENSIONING.
  • Overview.
  • DIMANGULAR.
  • DIMCENTRE.
  • DIMLINEAR.
  • DIMALIGNED.
  • DIMBASELINE.
  • DIMCONTINUE.
  • QDIM.
  • DIMRADIUS.
  • DIMJOGGED.
  • DIMARC.
  • QLEADER.
  • DIMORDINATE.
  • DIMASSOC.
  • DIMSTYLE1.
  • DIMSTYLE2.
  • DIMSTYLE3.
  • DIMSTYLE4.
  • DIMSTYLE5.
  • DIMSCALE.
  • DIMSCALE NOTES.
  • DIMTEDIT.
  • DIMEDIT.
15. BLOCKS & IMAGES.
  • Overview.
  • BMAKE.
  • -BLOCK.
  • INSERT.
  • WBLOCK.
  • XREF.
  • IMAGE.
  • ATTDEF.
  • EATTEDIT.
16. PRINTING. 17. PRACTICE PROJECT.
  • Setup.
  • Overview.
  • Format.
  • Draw the Border.
  • Draw the room.
  • Draw a doorway.
  • Draw a desk.
  • BLOCKing the desk.
  • WBLOCK the desk.
  • Inserting blocks.
  • ARRAYing a workstation.
  • Dimensioning.
  • Inserting a Title block.
  • PLOT your drawing.

Who should purchase this AutoCAD course on DVD:

  • All designers who want to use AutoCAD 2000 to 2007 or AutoCAD LT efficiently.
  • All designers who plan to use AutoCAD LT 2000 to 2007. We show which of the very few 2D commands do not apply to LT with charts and labeled exercises.
  • All self-taught users who want to "fill in their knowledge holes"
  • Users who need a refresher because of a long absence in using AutoCAD.
  • All designers who plan to use AutoCAD or Autodesk and 3rd Party add-on products.
  • Engineers, Architects, Interior Designers, Teachers, Instructors and Students .
  • Teachers or Instructors who want a ready to go package for an instant CAD Lab setup.

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