AutoCAD& AutoCAD Lt: 2D Drawing

A two day course dealing with 2D drawings

Course Objectives
This course enables trainees to provide an introduction to AutoCAD and also to recognise the hardware and software components of a CAD system, and to construct, save, retrieve and modify drawings.

Course Outline:

Sytem Overview
System requirements
Peripheral devices
Autocad development

AutoCAD structure
User interface
Dialogue boxes
Icon display

Setting up drawings
Drawing limits
Grid and snap
Units

Drawing and Editing
Drawing commands
Editing commands and grips
Layers
Dimensioning
Hatching
Model space and layouts
Printing and plotting

Target Audience
This course is intended for experienced drawing office managers and supervisors who wish to explore AutoCAD and are seeking to increase business productivity.
Designers, draughtspersons and project/design technicians, investing in AutoCAD and seeking to benefit from profressional training, to help them perform professionally to achieve increased productivity.

AutoCAD 3D Drawing and Design

A two day course

This course enables trainees to meet the growing need for personnel competent in CAD using AutoCAD for three dimensional draughting and also to cover a wide range of industrial and commercial applications, and would benefit engineers, designers, architects and all draughtspersons.

Course Outline

System overview
User co-ordinate system
3D space

Setting up drawings
drawing limits
grid and snap
units

Drawing and editing
drawing commands
editing commands
3D polylines and faces
revolved surfaces and meshes
ruled surfaces and tabulated surfaces
3D blocks
dimensioning
paper space and model space
3D editing
shell command
colour faces, edges etc.

Plotting
multiview plotting
layouts
non rectangular viewports

Display features
shade options
hide and render surfaces
lights
setting viewpoints and dynamic view
orbit and continuous orbit

Target Audience
This course is intended for:
Experienced drawing office managers and supervisors who wish to explore AutoCad 3D and are seeking to employ these techniques in the design process
Designers, draughtspersons and project/design tecnhicians, with a basic knowledge of AutoCAD and seeking to benefit from profressional training, to help them generate 3D designs to achieve increased productivity