12-690 Section C
Independent Study in AutoCAD
Carnegie Mellon University

Spring or Fall

Text:
Terry T. Wohlers, Applying AutoCAD 2004, Student Edition , McGraw-Hill- Ryerson, New York, ISBN 0-07-861216-0 York, 2004.
Note: The chapters for the topics in the syllabus below are from an earlier edition of Wohler's book. When my copy of the book arrives, I'll update the chapter numbers.

Professor:
Susan Finger, Civil & Environmental Engineering, PH123B, sfinger@ri.cmu.edu

Note: You must speak to the professor before you sign up for this course.

3 Units
6 Units
9 Units

Syllabus for 3 Credit Units

Week 1 Chapters 1-4 lines, circles, save, erase
Week 2 Chapters 5-8 keyboard shortcuts, select
Week 3 Chapters 9-13 drawing aids, undo, alter, zoom, pan
Week 4 Chapters 14-17 curves, duplicate, array, modify
Week 5 Chapters 18-20 notes, text, hatching
Week 6 Chapters 21-24 templates, layers, plotting, multiple views
Week 7 Chapters 25-26 dimensioning
Week 8 Chapters 27-29 more dimensioning, tolerancing, and calculations
Week 9 Chapters 30-31 groups and blocks
Week 10 Chapters 32-34 symbol libraries, attributes and BOM
Note: The files for the symbol libraries are not on the cluster computers
Week 11 Chapters 36-37
(skip unit 35 for now)		 3D, point filters, and UCS
Week 12 Chapters 38-39
solid 3D objects
Week 13 Chapters 40-41 More on solids
Week 14 Chapters 35, ?? isometrics and surfaces
Week 15 Chapters ?? rendering

Syllabus for 6 Credit Units

Week 1 Chapters 1-8 lines, circles, save, erase, keyboard shortcuts, select
Week 2 Chapters 9-17 drawing aids, undo, alter, zoom, pan, curves, duplicate, array, modify
Week 3 Chapters 18-24 notes, text, hatching, templates, layers, plotting, multiple views
Week 4 Chapters 25-29 dimensioning, tolerancing, and calculations
Week 5 Chapters 30-31 groups, blocks
Project Proposal Due
Week 6 Chapters 33-34 symbol libraries, attributes and BOM
Week 7 Chapters 36-37
(skip 35 for now)		 3D, point filters, UCS
Week 8 Chapters 38-40 solid 3D objects
Week 9 Chapters 41-44 More on solids
Week 10 Chapter 35 project
Week 11 project
Week 12 project
Week 13 project
Week 14 project
Week 15   project

Syllabus for 9 Credit Units

Week 1 Chapters 1-8 lines, circles, save, erase, keyboard shortcuts, select
Week 2 Chapters 9-17 drawing aids, undo, alter, zoom, pan, curves, duplicate, array, modify
Week 3 Chapters 18-24 notes, text, hatching, templates, layers, plotting, multiple views
Week 4 Chapters 25-29 dimensioning, tolerancing, and calculations
Week 5 Chapters 30-34 groups, blocks, symbol libraries, attributes and BOM
Project Proposal Due
Week 6 Chapters 36-40
(skip 35) 		3D, point filters, UCS, solid 3D objects
Week 7 Chapters 41-44 More on solids, isometrics and surfaces
Week 8 Chapter 35 project
Week 9 project
Week 10 project
Week 11 project
Week 12 project
Week 13 project
Week 14 project
Week 15 project

Susan Finger,

sfinger@ri.cmu.edu