Autodesk AutoCAD users can gain a competitive edge in their industries with AutoCAD
Certification. Through certification you can demonstrate your knowledge and skills
to prospective employers and advance your career opportunities.
Passing the examination requires a working knowledge of the performance tasks listed
below.
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Skill Sets
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Tasks
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Displaying Drawings
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- Perform zooming to alter dispaly of drawing
- Pan a drawing to alter display
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Working with Objects and Geometry |
- Create lines, arcs, circles and ellipses while using specific units and maintaining
design accuracy
- Move, copy, rotate, trim, extend, offset, lengthen, break, stretch, mirror, fillet,
array, and scale objects
- Use command line to enter commands and command options
- Use direct distance entry to enter distance values
- Use running object snaps and object snap overrides to select snap points in the
drawing
- Use polar tracking and PolarSnap to increase speed and accuracy when creating geometry
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Working with Layers and Linetypes
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- Import and use linetypes
- Change scale, colour, layers and lineweight on new and existing geometry
- Create layers and changes settings of layers
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Annotations
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- Create and modify text styles
- Create Mtext and Dtext
- Demonstrate knowledge of text scaling
- Use parameters and actions to create dynamic blocks
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Hatching
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- Access and use commands to create hatching
- Knowledge of hatch scaling
- Use Hatchedit command
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Dimensioning
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- Identify types of dimensions you can create
- Working knowledge of Dimension Style command
- Edit using grips and the Dimedit and Dimtedit commands
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Blocks, Attributes and Reusable Content
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- Create blocks, insert blocks and understand block management
- Use x-reference insertion, management, editing and types of x-references
- Create custom menus
- Edit block attribute values, colour and text style
- Create table styles - create and modify tables
- Create donuts, xlines and rays, wipeouts and boundaries while using specific units
and maintaining design accuracy
- Use purge and Wblock commands
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Layouts and Views
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- Create layouts, viewports, and scaled viewports
- Edit the display of layers in independent viewports
- Manage layouts and page setups
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Output
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- Understand ModelSpace output and layouts to create scaled hard copy and electronic
drawings
- Access plotter configuration files
- Access the Publish command and identify options
- Use Publish command to publish DWF files and plot drawings
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Drawing Set-Up, Templates and Standards
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- Use Save As command to create drawing template
- Understand difference between hard copy and electronic drawing
- Create and modify a drawing standards file
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