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Courses
Training
Course Description
AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials
Length: 2 Days
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and general mechanical industry knowledge of design and detailing and previous AutoCAD experience.
Description: Dedicated 2D mechanical industry design and annotation is the focus of this course. Learn how AutoCAD Mechanical software goes beyond plain AutoCAD with functions, tools and routines focused on known standards and practices in the mechanical industry. Work with bill of materials, hole notes, GD&T symbols, revision tables, automatic shaft generation, engineering formulas to quickly create production prints. Understand why tools like instant detail enlargements and automatic hidden line generation saves hours of tedious drafting work. Hands-on work includes practice with the mechanical symbol libraries containing over 800,000 parts such as fasteners, springs, bearings, holes, steel shapes and much more.
AutoCAD P&ID Essentials
Length: 1 Day
Prerequisite: Working knowledge of AutoCAD.
Description: This hands-on course covers many of the essential features of AutoCAD® P&ID. Students learn how to place equipment, valves, reducers and pipe fittings then connect equipment with pipelines. Topics such as validating the design, generating reports, and extracting reports to a non-CAD format are also covered.
AutoCAD P&ID for Administrators
Length: 2 Days
Prerequisite: Basic working knowledge of AutoCAD P&ID.
Description: This hands-on course covers many of the advanced features of AutoCAD® P&ID. Students learn how to customize symbols, tagging schemes, annotations, project settings, and the AutoCAD P&ID drafting environment. An overview of Dynamic blocks is also included.
AutoCAD 2009 Update
Length: 1 Day
Prerequisite: Working knowledge of AutoCAD.
Description: This course provides AutoCAD software users a thorough understanding of the new and enhanced features offered in the AutoCAD 2009 product. Students learn how to significantly improve 2D drafting productivity by using the new 2D drafting and annotations workspace, dashboard and CUI. Also, they learn how to increase productivity with the new drawing annotation functionality including annotation scales, multi-leaders, and dimensioning enhancements. Also covered are enhancements to how table data can be created from Excel spreadsheets, including linked data to Excel and Comma Delimited files. Finally, students learn how to create even more photorealistic visualizations with advanced light sources.
D3 AutoCAD Electrical Essentials Series - Part 1 of 2
Length: 2 Days
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and general electrical industry knowledge. Basic knowledge of AutoCAD is preferred but not necessary.
Description: This course provides an overview of many AutoCAD Electrical 2010 utilities designed to enable users to quickly create and manage electrical-controls production drawings. Users focus on how to build intelligent ladder diagrams and panel layouts, and how to leverage the intelligence built into AutoCAD Electrical. Hands-on exercises representing real-world design scenarios for the JIC (US) standard are included.
D3 AutoCAD Electrical Essentials Series - Part 2 of 2
Length: 2 Days
Prerequisite: D3 AutoCAD Electrical Essentials Series - Part 1 of 2
Description: Learn how to customize databases and other reference files to tailor AutoCAD® Electrical 2010 software to specific projects and company requirements. Also learn how to be more productive by updating title block attributes, generating automatic reports, using PLC I/O modules, managing cables, and using the circuit builder. Hands-on exercises representing real-world design scenarios for the JIC (U.S.) standard are included.
AutoCAD for Everyone Else
Length: 1 Day
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and general industry related knowledge.
Description: This one-day AutoCAD navigation course is designed for those who need basic AutoCAD navigation tools and simple file editing ability. If you are required to open an AutoCAD drawing and print it or have a need to check a dimension or process a minor change then this class should provide those tools. Upon completion the user should be able to open a native AutoCAD drawing, navigate as needed, control layers, create and edit text and perform simple but accurate editing. It is not intended to provide full AutoCAD training for the purpose of engineering production output.
AutoCAD Level 1 Fundamentals
Length: 2 Days
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and general mechanical industry knowledge of design and drafting.
Description: To create a production drawing in AutoCAD you need to know how to create geometry, edit geometry, detail geometry and work within department standards. Production AutoCAD knowledge also requires skills to work with symbols or blocks, dimensions, hatching and how to print or plot your work. AutoCAD has been on the market for more than 25 years which means that known tips and tricks and not just the philosophy of AutoCAD usage must be taught. The purpose of this course is to get the new and/or part-time user up to speed with AutoCAD software to make production drawings. To this end, not every command will be covered but the student will be prepared for the next D3 course "AutoCAD Level 2 Fundamentals".
AutoCAD Level 2
Length: 2 Days
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and completion of AutoCAD Level 1, or instructor approval.
Description: AutoCAD Level 2 continues your AutoCAD skill set and learning curve with more sophisticated techniques and tools. The course focus is now streamlining production, drawing quality and session control. Controlling the interface, keyboard shortcuts, custom toolbars, symbol/block creation, switching workspaces, construction objects, defining templates are all part of the process. Learning how to define and control use of drawing standards such as text and dimension styles enhance annotation speed. This class introduces the Model and Layout work environments and the associated commands and techniques required for both. In additional this course includes additional tips and tricks known by the AutoCAD power users to aid in the creation of production drawings.
AutoCAD Power User
Length: 1 Day
Prerequisite: Basic working knowledge of AutoCAD.
Description: Go from average user to AutoCAD "Power" user after attending this one day course. Stop using the same old comfort commands and increase your AutoCAD knowledge and skill set. Discover powerful production commands from AutoCAD R14 up to the latest release of AutoCAD 2009. Discover how to optimize AutoCAD for Windows, master the interface, learn quick shortcuts to annotation, drawing and editing functions. Review the Top 25 AutoCAD productivity killers. This course is intended for the experienced AutoCAD user but will assist new users from developing non-productive techniques.
