
Introduce the project scope for a 15-story residential building with a basement, detailing materials, reinforcement, slab planning, and the design approach with a shear system for earthquake resistance.
Identify waffle slab type one as a two-way slab, determine rib spacing and panel type from the plan, and outline beam requirements and slab thickness calculation.
Explore waffle slab type 2 design in AutoCAD, comparing rib spacing 0–1 m and 1–2 m, with 80 cm spacing and 3.5 kN/m² load on exterior panel with drop beams.
Explore one-way ribbed slab design in AutoCAD drawings, selecting rib direction, calculating slab thickness, and applying live and dead loads from the ASCI code for a residential story.
Introduce flat slabs with no interior beams or ribs, use edge drop beams, and determine slab thickness from load cases and L over 30 rules, with software calculating self weight.
Analyze solid slabs in autocad by determining beam sections and slope, applying panel perimeter rules to set maximum thickness, and detailing drop beams for seismic efficiency.
Learn to draw lines, polylines, and points in AutoCAD 2020 by inputting coordinates and using line and polyline commands to create precise shapes.
Learn to draw a rectangle in AutoCAD 2020 by selecting the first corner, entering a target area to auto-calculate length and width, and rotating to set the angle.
Learn to copy and move objects in AutoCAD 2020 by selecting base points, center points, or endpoints, and control distances to align lines and circles precisely.
Master six methods to draw circles in AutoCAD 2020, including center-radius, center-diameter, two-point, three-point, and tangent constructions, using direct commands, center points, or coordinates.
Explore how the offset command in AutoCAD 2020 copies and tightens architectural walls and lines, using precise distances and multiple offsets to create exterior and interior plans.
Master the mirror command in AutoCAD 2020 to copy lines around a midpoint and reproduce the same angle and shape, then erase and adjust mirrored segments.
Master rotating objects in AutoCAD 2020 by selecting a base point, entering angles, and applying the same rotation to lines and shapes for civil engineering shop drawings.
Learn to apply fillets in AutoCAD 2020 to create rounded corners, adjust radii, and join walls for precise shop drawings.
Master the extend and trim commands in AutoCAD 2020 to connect line endpoints, extend baselines, and remove excess segments for precise civil engineering shop drawings.
Learn to use AutoCAD 2020 xline to create vertical and horizontal construction lines. Build layouts quickly for civil engineering shop drawings by drawing rectangles and managing line behavior.
Learn to create and customize hatch patterns in AutoCAD 2020 for structural shop drawings, adjusting scale, color, gradient, and pattern types, and applying hatching with boundary objects.
learn to use the scale and stretch commands in AutoCAD 2020 to resize shapes, set base points, and adjust distances between lines, columns, and other features.
Organize a civil engineering project in AutoCAD 2020 using layer properties to manage color, line weight, hidden line types, and line type scale for each element.
Learn to create and edit text in AutoCAD 2020, using multi-line text for labels, adjust formatting (color, italics, superscript), alignment, and line spacing for project names and rooms.
Master placing linear, angular, and radius dimensions in AutoCAD 2020. Edit dimension style properties, including text, scale, precision, baseline spacing, extension lines, and leaders, using standard layers.
master the AutoCAD 2020 print workflow: open the print dialog, choose a printer, set paper size and orientation, select color or monochrome output, adjust line settings, preview, and save.
Learn to create structural shop drawings in AutoCAD 2020 by outlining column layouts, slabs, beams, and foundation reinforcement, including solid, flat, and waffle slabs with reinforcement details and reusable blocks.
Distribute columns across basement, ground, and typical floor plans in AutoCAD, copy the column layout to other levels, and draw the column axes with precise dimensions and block layers.
Draw columns in AutoCAD for civil engineering shop drawings by detailing section dimensions, cover, reinforcement, and creating column elevations at proper scales.
draw slab layouts and reinforcement for flat slab, solid slab, arab slab, and waffle slabs in AutoCAD, using shop drawings, axes, and layer management.
Learn how to create beam layout details and sections in AutoCAD 2020 for civil engineering, including dimensioning, scale settings, reinforcement with stirrups, and arranging columns and supports.
Learn how to create foundation drawings in AutoCAD for civil engineering projects, including strip and isolated foundations, backfill details, reinforcement layout, concrete cover, and labeling across columns, beams, and slabs.
Export a clean AutoCAD plan to ETABS by removing non-structural elements, using dedicated layers for columns, walls, and slabs, setting origin to zero, and saving in the correct AutoCAD format.
Part 1: Introduction for beginner civil engineers in manual calculation of structural elements
Manual calculation of :
1- Slab thickness ( How we can determine manually the thickness of all types of slabs: waffles slabs type 1 and type 2, Ribbed slabs, Solid Slabs , and Flat Slabs + Show the properties advantages and disadvantages of these slabs)
2- Beams thickness interior and exterior beams in all types of slabs and how we can choose the optimized design of Slab- beams system
Part 2: Learn the basics commands in AutoCAD to be ready to the shop drawing practice ( How to draw lines, How to draw polyline, Copy, Move, How to draw X-line, How to draw circle, How to draw Hatch in AutoCAD, How to do match properties in AutoCAD, How to print a sheet in AutoCAD.
Part 3: Students will learn how begin the shop drawing of a civil engineering project in the following steps:
1- How to draw the structural Axes
2- How to distribute the columns
3- How the draw the Column's details and Column's elevation.
4- How to draw the reinforcement of the columns + table.
5- How to draw the slabs layout and reinforcement.
6- How to draw the beams layout and reinforcement.
7- How to draw the details of beams and sections.
8- How to draw the draw the foundations layout.
9- How to draw the sections of the foundations.
10- How to draw the reinforcement of the foundations.