Who should attend? AutoCAD users who wish to improve their skills for 2D drawing production. This virtual class is appropriate for users in all disciplines - architects, engineers, designers, facilities planners, drafters and others.
 

Tips and Tricks

•     Use object selection and visibility to speed up your designs
•     Open multiple drawings in the same session
•     Best methods for using the Windows copy command with AutoCAD
•     Match properties across drawings
•     Quickly and easily modify drawings using grips
•     Change layer states by freezing, locking and unlocking
•     Isolate, filter and merge layers, use Layer Walk

Improved Accuracy

•     Understand absolute and relative coordinates for coordinate entry
•     Locate a new point based on existing object snap points
•     Understand temporary tracking
•     Create construction lines to help you construct your drawing
•     Use points and point groups for drawing reference markers

Better 2D Sketching

•     Set geometric relationships between objects, i.e., a line remains horizontal or two circles remain concentric
•     Set dimensional relationships between objects by specifying distances, radii or angles between objects
•     Use formulas in your constraints to capture your design intent

Reuse Your Drawing Content to Save Time

•     Work with blocks and block settings
•     Top tip for selecting objects and saving them as a separate file
•     Reduce drawing file size with effective use of the purge command
•     Tool Palettes – the easiest way to insert blocks
•     Apply properties to your tool palette to control the behaviour of blocks, hatching, and other reusable content
•     Attach data to your blocks    Improve Drawing Consistency
•     Use drawing templates for the settings that you want to include as the foundation for new drawings
•     Use AutoCAD’s standards tools to work quickly and efficiently
•     Top tips for a drawing layering scheme, create new layers
•     Work with lineweights and linetypes
•     Simplify your day-to-day work by creating layouts that match your printers and paper sizes

Better Display Control

•     Make complex drawings easier to navigate with named views
•     Create new viewports from a named view
•     Use model space viewports to display multiple close-up views
•     Change a layer’s properties in a viewport without the change being made in other viewports, freeze a layer in a viewport
•     Add annotation scale to objects enabling them to display in viewports at different scales

Annotation Styles

•     Exert better control over annotation with text and dimension styles

External Reference Tips

•     Use external references to enable members of a design team share common source files and still have the most current information
•     Attach, modify, clip and bind xrefs – understand the options
•     Attachments vs. overlays, control xref layers

Introduction to Fields and Tables

•    Understand how to create a text object that automatically updates
•    Understand how to display information in a table in your drawing

Other Time Saving Tools

•     AutoCAD’s calculator, additional zoom commands, scale / justify text, override dimension styles, create complex polylines

The course runs from 9:30am to 4:30pm, through virtual, tutor led delivery.

You will learn with a small group of people with a maximum of 6 delegates.  A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.

Online Delivery
A link to the online training platform will be sent before the course, simply click the link and follow the instructions.

• The platform is Adobe Connect
• You can be located anywhere in the world with an internet connection and your computer
• Delegates will receive an official AutoDesk certification of completion