Course Overview:
The general impression about CorelDraw is that it is an application for artistic sketching; however, it has a good set of tools and features that can effectively be used for technical sketching.
Engineers and technical draftsmen use heavy-weight applications like AutoCAD for their projects. However, you may need sometimes a simple and easy-to-use application for drafting your technical sketches. This course will introduce you to the simple tools and easy-to-use features of CorelDraw to draft detailed and to-scale sketches. This include dimensioning, scaling, positioning, etc. using measuring units, angles, drawing scale and more. You will be presented to all of this in addition to some smart tips and tricks and practical examples, which you may try it yourself, by the end of the course.
Course Objectives:
- Prepare your drawing environment for technical sketching
- Use the basic tools that you will need for technical sketching.
- Use the basic shaping and transformation tools for technical sketching.
- Draw a complete technical sketch using CorelDraw tools and features
Course Contents:
- Preparing your drawing environment
- Basics of dimensions
- Setting paper and drawing scale
- Explore the basic set of tools
- Line types
- Node editing
- Line thickness
- Types of basic objects
- Moving and copying
- Important features for technical sketching
- More about dimensions
- Alignment
- Distribution
- Object shaping
- Object transformation tools
- Position
- Scale
- Rotate and mirror
- Size
- Contouring
- Blending
- Practical example
- Drawing floor plans
- Drawing complicated objects
- Drawing gears
Target Audience:
All engineers, technicians and drafters.
