SHORT TERM VOCATIONAL TRAINING UNDER WEST BENGAL STATE

COUNCIL OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

AutoCAD Syllabus
Course Objective
This course is intended to teach the students how to use AutoCAD as a draughting tool to produce 2D
working drawings. The students will be shown how to create a new drawing, edit an existing drawing
and also how to plot a drawing to a suitable printer or plotter. In addition to this, the students will be
shown how to draw Isometric drawing and setup drawing environment and customize screen layout to
suit their own preferences. After completion of this course the students will be confident to draw 2D
drawings.

Instructional Philosophy
Best quality instructions will be provided to teach AutoCAD program. The class routine will be
framed much like a professional institution. A positive work ethic will be maintained, with each
student working to his/her highest potential. As the program progresses through the days,
teamwork and joint projects will be stressed within the class. The facts are that technology is
changing rapidly, and the student will be required to perform in various levels of the Design
process, which will mean students, at times, will be assigned processes that will be completed
within class and out of class. Oral and Written projects presented to the class within the
scheduled period as a whole will also be included.

Duration
Theory : 90 Hours
Practical : 270 Hours

Who Should Attend

New users with little or no experience of AutoCAD.

Existing users with no formal training wishing to consolidate their knowledge and increase their
confidence in the use of AutoCAD.

Pre-Requisites

Minimum Qualification

: 10th Class pass with little Engineering drawing and computer

operating knowledge.
Preferable Qualification : ITI Draughtsmanship OR Diploma/B.Tech in Mechanical/Civil
Engineering.

Module wise Breakup of the Syllabus

Module

Unit

Module 1
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Module 2
I
II
III
Module 3
I
II
III

IV
V
VI

VII
VIII
Module 4
Module 5
Module 5

Topics
Fundamentals of Engineering Drawings
Construction of plane and complex geometrical
figures
Construction of Curves and Helix
Principles of Projections
Projections of Straight Lines and Solids
Section of Solids
Mechanical Parts Drawing
Fundamentals of Computers
Introduction
Computer Hardware and Software Concepts
Introduction of Personal Computer and Operating
Systems WINDOWS-XP, Windows-7, File
Management
Drawing using AutoCAD
Starting a New Drawing/Opening an existing
drawing
Drawing Commands
Hatching Command
Text (multi-line & single line ) and Formatting
Text Styles
View Commands &
Drawing Settings and Aids
Modify Commands
Dimension Command
Formatting Dimension Style and Multi-leader
Style
Drawing Settings and Aids
Saving and Plotting

Isometric Drawing
Individual Project
Team Project
Examination
Total

Theory
(Hours)
19

Practical
(Hours)
48

3
3
3
3
5
8
1
3

8
2
9
9
18
12
-3

45

135

14

42

1.5

1.5

14

42

10

6
3
15
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24
7
21
24
24

3
90

6
270

Module 1
Fundamentals of Engineering Drawings ( Theory : 15 Hrs. & Practical : 30 Hrs. )
Unit I
Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
Unit V

Construction of plane and complex geometrical figures

Angles, Triangles, Rhombus, Quadrilaterals, Polygons, Angle Bisectors,
Line divided in equal parts etc.
Construction of Curves and Helix
Principles of Projections
Projections of Straight Lines and Solids
Section of Solids

Module 2
Fundamentals of Computers ( Theory : 10 Hrs. & Practical : 15 Hrs. )
Unit I
Unit II
Unit III

Introduction
Computer Hardware and Software Concepts
Introduction of Personal Computer and Operating Systems WINDOWS-XP,
Windows-7, File Management

Module 3
Drawing using AutoCAD ( Theory : 50 Hrs. & Practical : 150 Hrs. )
1) Starting a New Drawing/Opening an existing drawing
Setting up a drawing starting
from scratch
Setting up a drawing using a
Wizard
Using
and
creating
a
template file
Opening an existing drawing
1) Drawing Commands

Unit I

Unit II

Unit III

Screen layout
Pull-down menus
Screen icons
Command line
status bar
Dialogue boxes

Lines, Ray, Construction Line

Polygon, Spline
Multiline and polylines
Co-ordinate input methods
(directive, absolute, relative
Rectangles
and polar)
Arc, Circle and Ellipse
1) Hatching
2) Text (multi-line & single line ) and Formatting Text Styles

Module 3
Drawing using AutoCAD

Unit IV

1) View Commands
Zoom, Pan, Dynamic, Zoom Previous
Zoom real-time
2) Drawing Settings and Aids
Snap, Grid, OSnap, OTrack
1) Modify Commands

Unit V

Unit VI
Unit VII

Unit VIII

Erase
Trim,
Move
Copy
Mirror
Offset
Fillet and Chamfer

Array
Extend
Stretch
Rotate
Break
Scale
and Explode

1) Dimension Command
2) Formatting Dimension Style and Multi-leader Style
1) Drawing Settings and Aids
Layers
Drawing limits and units
Load Linetypes
Blocks
Match properties
Attributes
World UCS and User-defined
UCS
1) Saving and Plotting
Paper space, Layout space and Viewports
Pen assignments and Printer setup

Module 4 ( Theory : 15 Hrs. & Practical : 30 Hrs. )

Isometric Drawing
Module 5 ( Practical : 20 Hrs. )
Individual Project
Module 6 ( Practical : 25 Hrs. )
Team Project
Examination
Theory : 03 Hrs.

Practical : (Board Drawing : 03 Hrs + AutoCAD : 03 Hrs) = 06 Hrs