AUTODESK CERTIFIED USER EXAM

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and industry requirements, and advance your design career.

ACU EXAMS Working with reusable content

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certificate. benefits:
Weve designed the Autodesk AutoCAD Prove your skill level with an official,
Certified User program for those who are industry-standard credential recognized
relatively new to the software and want to by schools and employers
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based questions. Following are some examples
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Creating, organizing, annotating, and
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Manipulating, altering, and hatching objects contact a Certiport sales representative.
Working with layouts
Dimensioning

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 APPLY BASIC DRAWING SKILLS User
Create selection sets
Use coordinate systems
Use dynamic input, direct distance, and
shortcut menus
Use Inquiry commands
DRAW OBJECTS
Draw lines and rectangles
Draw circles, arcs, and polygons
Draw polylines
DRAW WITH ACCURACY
Work with grid and snap

WHATS ON THE EXAM? Use object-snap tracking

Use coordinate systems
Refer to the chart on this page for a list of
MODIFY OBJECTS
skills covered by this exam.
Move and copy objects
AUTODESK CERTIFICATION EXAM Rotate and scale objects
TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES Create and use arrays
Trim and extend objects
The Autodesk Certified User Exam Contains
30 questions. The majority of these require Offset objects
you to use Autodesk AutoCAD software Mirror objects
to create or modify a data file, and then Use grip editing
type your answer into an input box. Other Fillet and chamfer objects
question types include multiple choice,
USE ADDITIONAL DRAWING TECHNIQUES
matching and point and-click. You will have
a 75 minute time limit (in some countries, Draw and edit polylines
the time limit may be extended). The chart Apply hatches and gradients
shows you the skills you will be expected ORGANIZE OBJECTS
to demonstrate on the exam Keep in Change object properties
mind that some of the skills listed may
Alter layer assignments for objects
not be tested on your specific certification
exam; however, you should prepare to Control layer visibility
demonstrate your mastery of them all. REUSE EXISTING CONTENT
Insert blocks
ANNOTATE DRAWINGS
Add and modify text
Use dimensions
LAYOUTS AND PRINTING
Set printing and plotting options

Become an Autodesk
AutoCAD Certified User
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