Drafting and AutoCAD

Introduction to Drafting and AutoCAD 2D / CC BY

Wally Baumback / BCcampus / 2021

Introduction to Drafting and AutoCAD 2D was written as a tool to guide and teach you to master AutoCAD. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore the eook was written with competency-based modules. The competency-based modules are bite-size pieces that allow you to work at your own pace. They can be used to learn by distance education, correspondence, online, instructor-lead classes, or by individuals teaching themselves to use AutoCAD in their own home or office.

Format: Pressbooks

Introduction to Drafting and AutoCAD 3D / CC BY

Wally Baumback / BCcampus / 2021

This book is a tool to guide and teach you to master AutoCAD 3D. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore the book was written with competency-based modules. The competency-based modules are bite-size pieces that allows you to work at your own pace. They can be used to learn by distance education, correspondence, online, instructor-lead classes, or by individuals teaching themselves to use AutoCAD in their own home or office.

Format: Pressbooks

Introduction to Drafting and Autodesk Inventor / CC BY

Wally Baumback / BCcampus / 2021

This book contains self-paced learning modules that were written as a tool to guide and teach you to master Inventor. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore, the modules were written as competency-based bite-size pieces to allow you to work at your own pace. They can be used in correspondence courses, online courses, instructor-lead classes or by individuals teaching themselves to use Inventor in their own home or office.

Format: Pressbooks

Introduction to Solid Works / CC BY-NC

Melvin Hortman/ Renton Technical College / 2021

This book is an introduction of the SolidWorks software from a Mechanical Design role. It prepares students for beginning mechanical design and drafting and becoming a certified SolidWorks Associate.

Format: Pressbooks

 

Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design / CC BY-NC

Yongyeon Cho / Iowa State University / 2021

22 Tutorials for AutoCAD, Revit, and Enscape for producing draftings, construction documents, renderings and animations.

This book is for the beginning level of both architecture and interior design students who learn computer graphic communication software. The author developed multiple tutorials to teach three computer graphic applications, AutoCAD, Revit, and Enscape. AutoCAD is an essential computer drafting software which is 2D drawing software. Revit is a Building Information Modeling software, which is 3D based modeling software. Lastly, Enscape is a real-time rendering, animation, and virtual reality plug-in for users’ 4D experiences.

Format: Pressbooks

Introduction to Drafting and Autodesk Inventor / CC BY

Wally Baumback / BCCampus / 2021

This book contains self-paced learning modules that were written as a tool to guide and teach you to master Inventor. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore, the modules were written as competency-based bite-size pieces to allow you to work at your own pace. They can be used in correspondence courses, online courses, instructor-lead classes or by individuals teaching themselves to use Inventor in their own home or office

Format: Pressbooks

 

Introduction to SolidWorks / CC BY-NC

Melvin Hortman / Open Washington / 2021

This book is designed to introduce the SolidWorks software as well as provide tutorials for modeling parts, assemblies, and completing drawings from the mechanical designer’s perspective

If you are new to SolidWorks and 3D design altogether, it is recommended that you read through both theoretical and tutorial portions of the text.

Format: Pressbooks

Computer Aided Design and Drafting / CC BY

Craig Leendert / East Tennessee State University / 2022

Instructional materials for the course “ENTC 2170: Computer Aided Design and Drafting” include videos, assignments, slides, and drawings on the following topics: engineering graphics and scales, orthographic views, isometric views, dimensioning, section views, AutoCAD, layers, colors, mirrors, fillet, arrays, chamfer, blocks, Fusion 360, sheet metal modeling, tracing, textures, lofting and more.

Format:Downloadable docs, Video

Building Information Modeling using Revit for Architects and Engineers / CC BY

Atefe Makhmalbaf / Mavs Open Press / 2022

This book offers a web-based multimedia platform to enable students in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Engineering to learn fundamentals of BIM using Revit and be able to create building architectural, mechanical and structural models, develop construction documentation and analyze building performance. The platform include: book chapters on detailed Revit instructions and videos.

Format: Pressbooks

 

License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

NSCC OER by Subject -- Curated Lists of Resources to Consider Copyright © by Nova Scotia Comminity College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.