In just about any engineering or technical field you might go into, you have a good chance of encountering CAD (Computer-Aided Design) drawings. Simply put, this allows for highly precise digital "sketches" of structures, tools, or other parts and is especially useful for design and prototyping. We're not looking to become experts in CAD in this course, but having a basic familiarity with AutoCAD (a common name-brand CAD software which is installed on our computers) is a useful skill for anyone thinking of working in a STEM field. AutoCAD is especially useful for 3D designing, but in the spirit of crawl-walk-run we will first learn some of the basics in 2D. To do this, open AutoCAD on your computer and follow along with the following lessons. A good pacing is to plan on completing lessons 1.1-1.4 on Wednesday, 1.5-1.8 on Thursday, and then work on the project on Friday. PowerPoint notes from day 1: whatiscad.pdf Lesson 1.1 - Introduction to autocad
Lesson 1.2 - Introduction to drawing and modifying
Lesson 1.3 - Trim/extend/offset/osnaps
Lesson 1.4 - Accurate Inputs
Lesson 1.5 - Lesson 1.7
Lesson 1.8 - Adding dimensions
2d Cad project - Make your own DesignFor this project you will be putting your skills in AutoCAD to use. To do this, make any design or drawing of your choosing, as long as it meets the following conditions:
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