BricsCAD PROGRAM OVERVIEW Our company is proud to offer an introduction to industry-level CAD training through our educational licenses of BricsCAD, an AutoCAD-compatible design platform. The material we use for our training is the eBooks “Inside BricsCAD” (user download freely available online from BricsCAD) and “Learn Bricscad in a Day” by Ralph Grabowski. Copyright © 2008-14 by upFront.eZine Publishing, Ltd. All rights reserved worldwide. https://www.bricsys.com/bricscad/docs/en_INTL/V16/InsideBricsCADV16-en_INTL.pdf
Our standard program is conducted over a period of 12 weeks with two 2-hour sessions per week. We provide the instructor, computer workstations and software setups. RoboAchiever Learning Systems 5 Science Park at Yale, New Haven, CT 203 430-3141 www.roboachiever.com
1 A Tour Through Bricscad • Starting Bricscad V12 • Becoming familiar with the user interface • Understanding the crosshair cursor, UCS icon, and command bar • Drawing lines • Reversing mistakes • Accessing online help
2 Navigating the Bricscad Interface • Working with the upper half of Bricscad: title bar, menu bar, and toolbars • Finding out about the lower half of Bricscad: layout tabs, scroll bar, command bar, and status bar • Understanding prompt boxes and palettes
3 Setting Up A New Drawing • Preparing a drawing for first-time use with a wizard • Specifying units, angle formats, and drawing settings • Understanding how layers organize the drawing • Saving the drawing • Recognizing the importance of automatic backups
4 Creating Your First Drawing • Drawing with lines and polylines • Understanding absolute and relative distances • Using polar coordinates • Modifying objects • Plotting (printing) drawings
5 Adding Details to Drawings • Drawing circles and ellipses • Editing with grips • Applying hatch patterns to areas • Arraying objects • Making parallel offsets of objects • Creating symbols (blocks) • Performing real-time zooming and panning
6 Making Changes to Drawings • Modifying properties of objects • Applying linetypes • Changing the length of open and closed objects • Finding information about objects in drawings
7 Adding Notes and Dimensions • Understanding drawing scales • Placing text in drawings
• Defining styles and justification modes for text • Editing text • Toggling text and quick text • Attaching a variety of dimensions to objects in the drawing
8 Bills of Material • Defining attributes (data) • Attaching attributes to blocks • Creating templates for formatting attribute and block data • Exporting attributes and block data from drawings • Importing the data into spreadsheets for analysis • Importing spreadsheets into drawings
9 Modeling 2D Regions and Booleans • Converting collections of objects into regions • Using point filters to find coordinates • Applying Boolean operations to regions • Finding the mass properties of regions
10 Direct 3D Modeling & Editing • Learning about 3D solid models • Extruding profiles (2D objects) into bodies • Rotating 3D viewpoints • Subtracting 3D objects from one another • Modeling with direct editing • Aligning UCSes • Adding fillets to 3D edges
11 Dimensional & Geometric Constraints • Applying dimensional constraints • Using geometric constraints