|
This video CAD training
CD course is based upon our enhanced "hands-on" training philosophy.
Most CAD training CD courses beat you to death with every possible option
for every possible tool as the first training objective. Many students
never finish this nightmarish recital of endless clicks and options.
Instead many students either quit the course, or skim over the material
with eyes glazed over. This CAD training course will not do that to
you.
Instead, our training
philosophy is to teach a few tools and then use those select tools to
teach CAD concepts. As these first few tools become familiar, your hands-on
usage will reinforce new CAD training concepts and help you to learn
better ways of getting the job done with more accuracy and less effort
on your part.
As the CAD training
video course continues, more new tools are added, and more ways of manipulating
drawing entities will be explained. This eliminates that droning and
endless confusion about tool options during the beginning of most conventional
training courses. As you assimilate more CAD training concepts, then
more tools are added to keep it interesting but not overwhelming.
This course consists
of a Study Guide, Lesson Videos, and Lesson Practice Sessions. The study
guide is a brief which provides required background that enables understanding
of that CAD training video lesson. The practice sessions are assignments
where you use QCad to do things that were demonstrated in the videos.
If you run into problems, just play that video again. The course is
designed so that you can read about the current lesson objectives in
the study guide, play the lesson video, and then use the QCad program
to practice the material presented by that lesson. Once you are confident
with that lesson, then you move on to the next lesson. In conventional
CAD video training courses, this is where they would say "and each
topic builds upon the previous topic" as if that were some new
and unique idea. What a ridiculous statement. Everything we humans learn
in our lifetime is built upon previous things that we have already learned.
"TheCadTrain-CD"
Course Lesson Objectives: (06:00:17 total video time)
Lesson-1 - QCad
application window manipulation (17:02)
Toolbars and disabling of views
Toolbar docking
Options-toolbar accidental hiding issue
Show/hide position cross-hairs
Lesson-2 - Cad Coordinate screen concepts using lines (07:54)
(X,Y) coordinates
Polar Notation coordinates
Absolute coordinates and concepts
Relative coordinates and concepts
Lesson-3 - Command-Line drawing accuracy of lines and rectangles (13:30)
Lesson-4 - Create and accurately position new entities (12:33)
Arcs
Arc-Tangent tool
Polyline
Splines
Using Help to define splines
Lesson-5 -
Scanning your QCad Viewing Screen (06:19)
Use that Status-Line
Demonstrate toolbar changes
Demonstrate Status-Line and Command-Line
Demonstrate typical pop-up windows
Lesson-6 - Intro to the snap toolbar (11:40)
Snap to end-points
Snap on-entity
Snap to intersection
Snap restrictions to relative reference point
Set and lock relative refence point
Lesson-7 -
Entity move and alignment using snap tools (17:03)
Move a rectangle and circle
Using relative zero point to snap circles and lines
Snap circle to relative reference using snap restrictions
Move and rotate to snap
Break off and move pieces of an entity
Lesson-8 - Modify entity tools (11:22)
Create parallel lines
Create parallel line thru a point
Trim and extend a line
Create parallel rectangles
Lengthen a rectangle
Snap to grid to place a square
(Square dimensions do not
match grid dimensions)
Use snap to relative coordinates to place a second
square
Use snap to endpoints to attach a line connecting
both squares
Lesson-9 - Draw more entities using relative coordinates (19:23)
Line
Arc
Polyline
Polygon
Measure area and circumference of a polyline
Measure area and circumference of a polygon
Lesson-10 - Intro to Block concepts (using a line, circle and rectangle)
(13:37)
Create from drawing entities
Saving within a drawing
Inserting a Block
Editing a Block
Active Block selection/deselection
Snapping a Block to specific drawing locations
Importance of the Block reference point
Lesson-11 - Project setup requirements (10:21)
Paper size selection
Print preview scaling factor considerations
Lesson-12 - Project setup requirements (05:54)
Current Drawing Preferences
Determine units of measure and grid spacing
Calculate text height relative to paper size
Calculate dimension text height and arrow size relative
to paper size
Lesson-13 - Project setup requirements (08:24)
Create proper size crop mark box
Create drawing border box ¼" inside edges
of paper
Lesson-14 - Project setup requirements (10:37)
Finish crop marks
Place a house with conventional measurements
Lesson-15 - Project setup requirements (10:24)
Place a house with walls that snap to grid increment
dimensions
Lesson-16 - More edit tools and CAD concepts (09:25)
Introduce cut tools
Cut a wall segment at exact locations
Lesson-17 - More edit tools and CAD concepts (06:26)
Create a window to place into a wall segment
Lesson-18 - More use of block tools (05:30)
Create a window block entity and move same
Lesson-19 - More move and snap CAD concepts (08:49)
Move the window block to snap to wall length grid
dimensions
Lesson-20 - Clean up your act (19:40)
Use tools in proper sequence
Clean up your Command Line trash
New and improved auto-snap tool
Stretch those complex drawing entities
Lesson-21 - Advanced line tools (14:12)
Bisectors trimmed to arc
Tangent from point to arc/circle
Tangent from arc to arc / circle to circle
Lines orthogonal (includes wayward auto-snap demonstration)
Line with relative angle to other entities
Freehand line tool
Lesson-22 - Use your brain versus custom snap tools (06:30)
Draw a circle centered on a rectangle
Place a diagonal line whose center is snapped to a
circle center
Place a parallel copy of the diagonal line that is
tangent to the same circle
Place a circle centered a given distance below the
center of an angled line
Lesson-23 - Cad concepts for Layers (22:41)
Layer-0
Foundation layer
Roof layer
Windows and doors layer
Floor plan layer
Lesson-24 - More modify tool concepts (16:45)
Deselect with one mouse click
Rotate a triangle about a snap point
Bevel two intersecting lines of a rectangle
Round two intersecting lines of a rectangle
Rotate and move entities tool
Rotate Two - Rotate and place a group of entities
(around the snap center
point of a rectangle that is off-grid)
Lesson-25 - More object snap tool concepts (09:59)
Snap the center of an equilateral triangle to a point
5 inches from the end of
an off-grid non-orthogonal
line
Place an arc centered to the manual intersection of
two lines, with the arc
ending at the manual
intersection reference lines
Lesson-26 - CAD dimension concepts (11:39)
Placing dimensions
Dimension parameters
Lesson-27 - More CAD concepts (13:59)
Changing drawing units
Formatting and placement of text
Hatching and Fills
Lesson-28 - The QCad.ini file (07:23)
What does it do
Where is it located
Why and how to remove it
Editing the QCad.ini file
Lesson-29 - Project management (23:37)
File Formats and Import/Export Options
Drawing page border importing and scaling
File naming concepts
File backup concepts
Lesson-30 - Example drawing projects
House floor plan
Centering-puck for grinding crankshafts
We now offer the following training lessons on a free optional bonus
CD. These lessons are specific to DryStacked block house plan foundation
drawing considerations.
Bonus Lesson-31
- Explains how wall offsets have to be adjusted for foundation
plan accuracy in DryStacked block house plans. (18:25)
Bonus Lesson-32 - Explains how to adjust wall offsets to incorporate
corner
block issues in DryStacked block house plans.
(33:14)
Bonus Lesson-33 - Explains how to accurately place wall cell rebar locations
onto a foundation plan in DryStacked block house
plans. (20:17)
"DryStacked
Construction Handbook" explains how to build with dry stacked block
and surface bonded cement.
Return
to top
|
