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Autocad is one of the leading softwares used to create designs and drawings for the Architectural, Civil and Mechanical Industry. A course in Autocad is beneficial for all those who want to pursue a career in these industries and also for people interested in 3D Modelling and Visualisation. This course will help to you find jobs as a Technician/Draftsman or as an Architect, Civil Engineer, Project manager, Designer it will help you to understand and present your designs to industry standards.
The course is divided into three levels –
- Essentials – 5wks x 3hrs – 2 hrs teaching + 1hr assisted practice
- Advanced – 3wks x 2 hrs – 2hrs teaching
- ACAD 3D– 4wks x 3hrs - 2 hrs teaching + 1hr assisted practice
The Essentials and Advanced levels include the necessary knowledge required to draw, annotate and print high standard 2D drawings. The Acad 3D level is specifically for creating 3D models, applying materials and setting up views. You can join whichever level suits you best. At the end of each class you will be given homework which will be marked and improvements suggested. At the end of the course you will receive a certificate.
The Course content is as follows:
Essentials Level:
Class 1:
- Introduction to Autocad User Interface and Menus
- Autocad navigation (Zoom and Pan)
- Model and Paper space concepts
- Toolbars and Commands – mouse and keyboard functions
- Opening and Saving files
- Customizing interface/Workspaces
- UCS – User co-ordinate system
- Origin
- Drawing Templates
- Units
- Understanding Objects and Vector concepts
- Drawing basic geometry – Lines, Rectangles, Circles, Arcs and Polygons
- Dynamic Input – On/Off
- Undo, Redo and Refresh
- Accuracy tools – Object Snap and Ortho
- Selecting Objects
- Grips
- Erasing Objects
- Object properties and how to change them
Practice
Class 2:
- Polylines and Splines
- Modify tool bar – Copy, Move, Rotate, Mirror, Offset, Scale, Stretch, Lengthen, Trim, Extend, Break, Join, Chamfer, Fillet, Explode, Array, Divide, Align
- Layers and Layer Properties
- Autocad drawing standards
Practice
Class 3:
- Orthographic drawing concept – Plan, elevation, Section and View
- Grids
- Construction lines
- Referencing and Inquiry
- Match Properties
- Creating, Inserting and Editing Blocks
- Boundaries and Regions
- Hatching
- Points
Practice
Class 4:
- Text styles: Formatting, Inserting and Editing
- Dimension styles: Formatting, Inserting and Editing
- Annotative scale
- Matching text and Dimension properties
- Table styles: Formatting, Inserting and Editing
- Point style
- Multiline Style
- Drawing Limits
Practice
Class 5:
- Paperspace layout set up
- Creating Viewports
- Setting up scaled drawings on viewports
- Creating a personal drawing template
- Plotter Manager and adding plotters
- Pen settings
- Plotting on a plotter
- Plotting as a PDF
- Creating a drawing set
- Drawing utilities – Audit, Recover and Purge
- Summary
Advanced Level
Class 1:
- Revision of Basic concepts
- Rotating, aligning and naming UCS
- Creating viewports in model space
- Paste special
- Inserting Raster images, OLE objects, windows Metafile, ACIS file, Drawing Exchange binary files, hyperlinks
- Editing inserted items
- Creating and Inserting External Reference files
- DWF underlay
- Defining Attributes for blocks
Class 2
- Fields
- Datalinks
- Action recorder
- Advanced Inquiry
- Advanced User customisations
Class 3
- Advanced dimensioning
- Window Properties
- Express tools
- Advance Plotting
- Exporting files
Acad 3D Level
Class 1:
- 3d Co-ordinate system
- Viewports and UCS for 3D modelling
- Drawing basic 3D shapes
- 3D navigation – orbits, steering wheel and cube
- 3D visual styles
- 3D Properties
- 3D move, copy, rotate, align and array
- Extruding
- Planar surface
Practice
Class 2:
- Presspull, Sweep, Revolve, Loft
- Modify faces
- Boolean operations
- Modify edges and other modify tools
- Creating a model from Plan, Elevations and Sections
Practice
Class 3:
- Creating 3d Blocks and editing
- 3d Dimension and text
- Camera angles and views
- Lights
- Rendering
Practice
Class 4:
- Materials and Mapping
- Final Rendering
- Animation/Walk through
- Exporting and Importing 3D
- Plotting 3d Objects
- Summary
Autocad Essentials weekend course
The weekend course is an intensive course which compresses the Essential level education (See course content above) for Autocad over a 12 hour teaching period – 6 hours each on Saturday and Sunday with a one hour break in the middle. It is suitable for people with good computer skills and who can keep pace.
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