Introduction, Drawing Instruments and their uses, Layout of the Software, standard tool bar / menus, navigational tools. Co-ordinate system and reference planes. Creation of 2 dimensional environment. Selection of drawing size and scale. Commands and Dimensioning.

Orthographic Projections: Introduction, Planes of projection, reference line. Projection of points in all the four quadrants. Projection of straight lines, Projection of Plane Surfaces, and Projection of Solids in first angle projection system.

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• James D. Bethune, “Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD”, Pearson Education, 2014
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