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| Course Description |
Exploration of the use of system customization for drawing production enhancement and the principles of data manipulation. Presentation of advanced applications, such as three-dimensional object creation and linking graphic entities to external nongraphic data. This course builds on the skills achieved in earlier Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD) courses. The student exploits advanced and customizable features of the CAD software to build an efficient, integrated, customized CAD environment. The course explores in more detail several advanced concepts aimed at increasing drawing efficiency, including linking with external drawings and documents, creating, editing, and maintaining libraries of drawing components, and creating dimension styles and viewpoints. The student also gains exposure to the customizable features of the CAD software, including linetypes, hatch patterns, scripts, slide shows, macros, shapes, and an integrated custom menu system. The course concludes with a brief introduction to the programming environment accessible from the CAD software to help the student decide whether to continue on into the CAD Programming course. |
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| Rationale |
This course is intended to give students workforce skills in the CAD field.
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| Instructional Methodology |
- Lectures introduce new material.
- Exercises allow the instructor to lead students through the material the first time.
- Projects provide opportunities for students to practice with the new tools on their own.
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| Prerequisites |
DFTG 2419 |
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| Objectives/Outcomes |
At the completion of this course, students will have demonstrated proficiency in:
- Creating a drawing incorporating a drawing template file, one or more external references, dynamic/attributed blocks, layouts/viewports, plot style tables, block attribute extraction, and a drawing web format file.
- Creating customized elements, including command shortcuts, a script file, linetypes, and hatch patterns.
- Creating a customized menu interface, including toolbars, pulldown menus, shortcut menus, mouse buttons, shortcut keys, and DIESEL expressions.
- Creating AutoLISP expressions and one or more AutoLISP functions.
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| Grade Determination |
Grading policies are determined by individual instructors or course coordinators. |
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