Exploring your Curiosities Through an Online Course
Hello friends, so we are at the end of this fellowship and we don’t have any Amal online course to complete but since learning never ends, we have to do an online course of our own choice.
AutoCAD 2020
As a mechanical engineer, it is very necessary to learn drafting skills. AutoCAD is computer-aided design software. I was planning to do this course for the past few months but I was facing difficulty in managing time although AutoCAD was installed on my laptop.
This week, Amal Academy came up with an exciting idea about doing a course of our own choice. So, without any doubt, I searched for free AutoCAD courses on my Udemy account, and based on its rating I decided to get enrolled in AutoCAD 2020.
Session 1
I have completed sessions 1 and 2 until now. Session 1 included a brief introduction of the layout of classic, 2D, and 3D layout of AutoCAD 2020. In video 2 I have learned how to open a new file by going to the home tab and clicking new. In video 3 of session 1, I have learned that the first step of starting a drawing is to check units. Go to the drawing unit tab and set the desired unit.
Session 2
Then after taking a short break I started Session 2 where I learned about how to draw the basic shapes in 2D drafting mode.
First, we have to go to the drawing toolbar where we have several shapes which we can draw.
In this session, I have learned about the short commands about different shapes. The first shape has a line command and its short key is ‘i’, which is used to draw a line having one fixed point and we can enter our desired dimensions. The construction line short key is ‘xl’ and it is used to draw lines of infinite length. This line is generally used to locate parallel lines. then we have polylines, its short key is ‘pl’. We can give curves to polylines.
Then we have another important shape i.e circle, Its short key is ‘c’. To draw a circle first select its type i.e center radius, two-point, three-point, tangent radius, or tangent tangent tangent circle. To draw a rectangle short key is ‘r’ and then we have to give dimensions by typing @(x-dimension, y-dimension) in the command box. For selecting a polygon we have to select the base circle radius and then the number of sides.
Thankyou Amal Academy
This week I have completed two sessions of this course. I am planning to assign a time slot so I can complete the course and practice what I learned. It was a great learning experience, thanks to Amal Academy for this week’s project work, because of it I am able to start the course that is important in my career.