Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 9 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Simon Rodway
Rating
Course Overview
Learn how to draw your own fully dimensioned woodworking plans using CAD software
Once you have learned the basics in CAD drawing, you will have a skill that will last you a lifetime.
Here's what a recent student on the course, Cady Dodds, a carpenter designer/maker who runs Perfect Space Carpentry, had to say in an email to me:
"The course has been great for me, first step towards electronic drawing.
I sat down this afternoon and drew up 2 elevations for a client, some wardrobes and storage. Although basic I think quite acceptable and took me about 2 hours or so, and after a bit of fettling I got them to print. So I am very pleased."
This was Cady's first ever CAD drawing. The 2 hours it took him, will soon become an hour. The time savings CAD offers you have to be experienced to be believed. What's more, you can send your finished drawing to anyone, anywhere in the world, as a PDF file which they can open to view and print. Its an unbeatable technology.
Here are some of the things the course teaches you to do:
how to set up the CAD screen to draw more quickly and easily
how to use a few basic tools to maximum effect, and build even complex drawings using simple techniques
how to re-use existing drawings to create new ones, in a fraction of the time
how to dimension your finished drawings in minutes using powerful CAD tools
how to output your drawings as finished scale plans, either printed or as PDF files
Using a project based, step by step method I show you how to draw a complete set of elevations of an Apothecary's Chest.
A PDF version of the plans of the chest are provided to download for reference, and sequential versions of the relevant CAD files for you to work on as you progress through the course are also included. These files are prepared with a range of dimension scales to make it much easier to output your finished drawing, and can be re-used as templates in the future.
The course has 3 main sections
Customising the workspace, where you learn how to streamline the CAD screen and tools to get the most out of them
The project, where you learn through step by step video lectures, how to draw a complete set of woodworking plans
Dimensioning, scales and output, where you learn how to add dimensions to the finished plans and output the drawing to print or as a PDF file
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 32 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Clearing the decks
- Section 3 CAD essentials and concepts
- Section 4 Drawing the front elevation
- Section 5 Constructing the side elevation
- Section 6 Layers and dimensioning
- Section 7 Drawing the front section
- Section 8 Drawing the side section
- Section 9 Scales and plotting to PDF
- Section 10 The next step
What You’ll Learn
- Learn to draw fully dimensioned plans, quickly and easily, Although the course is based on DraftSight, because of the similarities to AutoCAD and other professional CAD applications, you will learn to draw woodworking plans using any top level CAD program
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMervyn Sher
I don't understand why we are removing toolbar icons.
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DDeta Kerschat
The course is excellent for the first timer however, the recommended software has upgraded and the command responses are slightly different to the tutorial. This leads to a bit of frustration early but once you figure out how to execute each command, it becomes much easier to use.
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KKieron O'Connell
1) A little quick in terms of what the instructor is clicking on to make things happen. 2) Stretch tool very difficult to understand from this video. It seems critical how you select items, but not clear. 3) Difficult to see command line on video 4) No explanation at all of how the different sheet dimension scales were set up.
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AAnthony Schuyler
Helped me to understand and use the CAD functions better and more proficiently. Once I was able to understand how to use the stretch, create group, explode, and select tools and select individual items and move them as a group, I was able to make good progress. Learned some invaluable lessons of how to use cad tools and apply their use to future drawings Thanks for a great courses
