Institute of Technology Carlow Curriculum

• Organise the AutoCAD user interface • Perform basic maintenance • Use file management • Input with the keyboard and mouse • Input coordinate entries • Create and edit drawings • Use AutoCAD function keys • Customise the right mouse button • Insert dynamic inputs • Use Layer tools • Use AutoCAD hatch, text, dimensioning and annotation functions • Use basic block, dynamic blocks and attributes. • Control the use of layout and sheets • Control the AutoCAD display and plotting environments • Share data working with other applications Word and Excel • Extract a coordinate list from a survey. Import the coordinate list into Civil 3D, generate a model and export the information in AutoCAD maintaining a real- world scale. • Scan an ordnance survey map and scale reference it to real life size using the OS scale bar as reference. • Produce good quality working drawings of residential projects fully annotated and dimensioned, using A4, A3, A2 and A1 sheet with multiple viewports. • Create good quality working drawings of a site plan and longitudinal section of a residential project showing services, drainage, access, and landscaping fully annotated and dimensioned.

Create vertical and horIzontal details using drafting views fully annotated and dimensioned in Revit Architecture.

MS Word 2013: • The Word window: Basics • Formatting Paragraphs and Working with Styles • Report writing :Adding Bullets and Numbers, using References, Setting Page Layouts and Printing Documents MS Excel 2013: • Entering Text and Numbers • Entering Excel Formulas and Formatting Data • Creating Excel Functions, Filling Cells, and Printing • Creating charts MS PowerPoint 2013: • The PowerPoint Window: Basics • Creating PowerPoint Presentations: Create a Title Slide ,Create New Slides ,Make Changes to ,Apply a Theme ,Run PowerPoint Slide Show • Animations, Transitions, Spell Check, Outline Tab, Slides Tabs, Sorter View, and Printing