Introduction. Overview, objectives, and how to conduct the discipline. Brief history of computer equipment and information technology, fundamental concepts, hardware, and evolutionary aspects.
Operating systems. Concepts, developments and trends, main components and functions. Physical and logical aspects of storing and managing data. File specifiers and usual formats.
Algorithms, methods, and descriptive tools. Concepts, method classifications, and paradigms. Task analysis and software development stages. Analysis and method description tools.
Structuring concepts. Types of errors in data collection and automatic data processing.
Office software – the content and the structure of an electronic document. Text editing, settings, processing, and formatting.
Embedded parts through software interconnectivity. Expressions, tables, drawings, images, and references are inserted in a document.
Conversion options and possibilities. Office software – spreadsheet calculus, reference types, expressions, and formulas. Addressing cell ranges. Moving and copying content, merging and dividing cells. Formula types, correcting errors.
Graphics for sets of values. AutoCAD – the user interface. Use and configuration of the menus. Model space, reference systems, and absolute and relative coordinates.
Modifying the coordinate system (UCS / WCS). Managing layers. Command types. Assisting tools (OSNAP, GRID, ORTHO, etc.). Selecting entities. AutoCAD – line and hatch types, characteristics, and properties. Text types, special characters. Dimensioning commands and settings.
AutoCAD – setting and using viewing panels. Sample 3D modeling by using several viewing panes. Creating cross sections. Computing geometrical-mechanical characteristics of areas.
AutoCAD – blocks and attributes. Creating and exploding composed entities. Saving blocks as files, inserting blocs in the model. Commands for defining, modifying, and extracting attributes. Creation and use of symbol libraries. Paper space, plotting, and printing issues.
AutoLISP – introduction, basic concepts. Atoms and functions. Use of AutoLISP in the Command Line. Development of an AutoLISP file, sample. Defining variables, and settings. Visual LISP – running in AutoCAD, user interface, opening and loading of an AutoLISP file under Visual LISP, the use of an AutoLISP routine
(inspection, debugging). The use of AutoCAD commands in AutoLISP programs.
AutoLISP functions for list processing, conditional structures, loops, and the use of modeled entities with their properties. Data and communication networks. Roles, fundamental topologies, network types. Internet – basic aspects. GSM environment, evolution.
BIM – introduction, history (XML applications in civil engineering), basic sample model, and viewing options.
