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AutoCAD 2D Training – Introduction

AutoCAD 2D Introduction

CPD Certified
4.83 / 5
2 days.
Client Site Courses Available.
Online & London.

This course will have you creating CAD drawings from scratch in no time!

  • Open and navigate AutoCAD.
  • Creating & editing simple plans
  • Using layers & adding dimensions
  • Working faster with templates
  • Outputting your work

Overview

This course will have you creating CAD drawings from scratch in no time!

  • Open and navigate AutoCAD.

  • Creating & editing simple plans

  • Using layers & adding dimensions

  • Working faster with templates

  • Outputting your work

Full Syllabus

Am I Ready?

You do not need any previous experience of using AutoCAD 2D.

This course assumes a basic understanding of computers such as the ability to work with multiple windows and navigate the desktop, as well as having an understanding of computer file storage (i.e. drives, files and folders). Provided you understand these subjects, you’ll be fine.

Instructor

AutoCAD Certified Instructor Logo

Simon is one of our regular trainers for this course. He is an Autodesk certified instructor.

He has been using AutoCAD for 35 years when he started work in an architectural practice.

He has been training people to use AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) for 30 years.

CPD Accreditation

Dates, Prices & Booking

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Price: ££595.00 Now £495 (+VAT)

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AutoCAD 2D Training – Intermediate

AutoCAD 2D Intermediate

CPD Certified
4.83 / 5
2 days.
Client Site Courses Available.
Online & London.

Build on your existing AutoCAD skills & learn to create more complex drawings.

  • Presentation: styles, settings & tables
  • Publishing & plotting drawings
  • Annotation: Dimensions & tolerances
  • Creating fine detail: blocks & attributes
  • Layers: filters, standards & state manager

Overview

Build on your existing AutoCAD skills & learn to create more complex drawings.

  • Presentation: styles, settings & tables

  • Publishing & plotting drawings

  • Annotation: Dimensions & tolerances

  • Creating fine detail: blocks & attributes

  • Layers: filters, standards & state manager

Full Syllabus

This introductory session shows you the more advanced skills of object drawing. It shows you how to create boundaries and regions, and also how to divide and measure objects, amongst other skills.
The key topics covered include:
  • Multilines
  • Revision Clouds
  • Wipeouts
  • Boundaries
  • Regions
  • Point Objects
  • Dividing and Measuring Objects
  • Geometric Construction
This session is focused on manipulating objects and data. The key areas that it focuses on explaining is how you purge objects in AutoCAD and also the various uses of the geometry calculator.
The key topics covered include:
  • Purging Objects
  • Geometry Calculator
This session focuses on the various styles and settings that AutoCAD contains to let you customise the presentation of your drawing. Editing your dimension styles lets you edit units, precision and line styles. Similarly there are multiple options available to ensure that your tables and multileaders are just as you would wish them.
The key topics covered include:
  • Dimension Styles and Overrides
  • Setting up Multileaders
  • Creating and Modifying Tables
Once you have created your drawing you need to get it out of AutoCAD in order to be able to use it in the real world. This shows you the more advanced ways that AutoCAD lets you do this.
The key topics covered include:
  • Plotter Configuration Files
  • Plot Style Tables
  • Publishing Drawings
Tables are used in drawings to show the dimensions and geometry of certain objects. Presenting this information clearly and concisely is important. AutoCAD includes a number of options to allow you to customise your table quickly and simply. We also cover how you can either import or export your tables from your drawing.
The key topics covered include:
  • Table Styles
  • Creating and Modifying Tables
  • Creating Tables from External Data
  • Advanced Table Contents
  • Exporting and Importing Tables
Dimensioning lets you annotate your drawing by showing the exact measurements of some or all of its elements. Ensuring that your drawings are unambiguous is key when sharing them. There are multiple options available to ensure that your dimensions are clear and easily interpreted. This session will show you how this is done.
The key topics covered include:
  • Introduction to Annotation Scaling for Dimensions and Text
  • Centre Marks
  • Ordinate, Baseline and Continuous Dimensions
  • Geometric Tolerances
  • Breaking Dimensions
  • Quick Dimension
  • Using Alternative Dimension text i.e. mm or inches
This is a shorter session which focuses on how you use multileaders for drawings in an engineering and architectural setting.
The key topics covered include:
  • Using and creating multileaders for engineering and architectural applications
Blocks and attributes are key when working with detailed drawings. They allow you to annotate AutoCAD drawings with the exact details of a particular part of the drawing. So rather than showing a particular parts dimension, an attribute allows you to attach a variety of data to an individual item in your drawing, for example, price, unique identifier, comments or any other useful specific information.
The key topics covered include:
  • Creating / Editing
  • Annotative Blocks
  • Data Extraction
Layers are overlapping views of your drawing. Different objects are attached to different layers. Selectively making your layers or visible or invisible you can add or remove these elements to your drawing. This makes working on and visualising complex drawings far simpler.
The key topics covered include:
  • Layer Filters
  • Layer States Manager
  • Layer Standards
This session is all about how you present your completed drawings. A layout is a 2D space that lets you specify the the size of your drawings and a number of other key variables for your drawing. Viewports allow you to visualise the same drawing in different ways, for example, wireframe.
The key topics covered include:
  • Creating Layouts and using Page Setups
  • Creating Viewports
  • Controlling Object Visibility in Viewports
  • Annotation Scales and Viewports
Sheet sets are collections of sheets which you want to manage as a unit. For example, a number of different layouts of the same drawing might be used to produce a sheet set. This session leads you through the key elements of how to produce and manage your sheet sets in AutoCAD.
The key topics covered include:
  • Creating and working with Sheet Sets

Am I Ready?

This intermediate AutoCAD 2D training course assumes that you are a competent AutoCAD user.

It also assumes that you have either attended our Introduction AutoCAD 2D training course or have practical experience of the elements covered in that course.

Instructor

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Simon is one of our regular trainers for this course. He is an Autodesk certified instructor.

He has been using AutoCAD for 35 years when he started work in an architectural practice.

He has been training people to use AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) for 30 years.

CPD Accreditation

Dates, Prices & Booking

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STEP 3. Price

Price: £595.00 (+VAT)

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AutoCAD 2D Training – Advanced

AutoCAD 2D Advanced

CPD Certified
4.83 / 5
2 days.
Client Site Courses Available.
Online & London.

Become an AutoCAD master & learn to use all of AutoCAD’s most technical tools

  • Schematics & 2D isometric drawings
  • Customising your tool palette
  • Working with dynamic blocks
  • Advanced layouts & object viewports
  • The basics of AutoCAD 3D

Overview

Become an AutoCAD master & learn to use all of AutoCAD’s most technical tools

  • Schematics & 2D isometric drawings

  • Customising your tool palette

  • Working with dynamic blocks

  • Advanced layouts & object viewports

  • The basics of AutoCAD 3D

Full Syllabus

The first session in this course covers advanced object creation. So drawing isometric (simulating a 3D view in 2D) objects, we show how you can create an object in parts and then assemble them into a final object and also create schematics.
The key topics trained include:
  • 2D Isometric drawing
  • Parts and assembly creation
  • Schematic creation
This session focuses on how you use the dimensioning and annotation tools within AutoCAD when working with isometric objects.
The key topic trained is:
  • Isometric dimensioning
This session is particularly useful for people who work full-time with AutoCAD. It shows you how you can customise the tool palettes to give you easier access to those that you use more frequently. It also shows you how to import files held in other formats into AutoCAD and then finally how to work with external drawing files.
The key topics trained include:
  • Creating Tool Palettes
  • Importing other file formats such as PDF
  • External Reference drawing files
Dynamic blocks take the concept of blocks a step further. They allow you to edit a block once it has been inserted into your drawing without having to modify the block itself or creating a new block. This is especially useful for items that come in different sizes, for example doors. If you change the type of door when you have inserted one into your drawing, it can be edited in situ if your door is a dynamic block.
The key topic trained is:
  • Introduction to creating and using Dynamic blocks
This session focuses on the most advanced features of layouts. It shows you how to achieve complete control of your viewports.
The key topics trained are:
  • Viewports – Using object viewports
  • Controlling – colour, line weight control and object within a viewport

This session introduces you to using AutoCAD 3D. There is a obviously a number of new key techniques and methods that a new user will need to be introduced to before moving on to looking at the more detailed features in AutoCAD 3D.

The key topics trained are:

  • Overview of 3D modelling techniques
  • Using the different modelling styles: Solid- Surface- Mesh

* Please Note –
3D tools are only available in the AutoCAD environment and not in AutoCAD LT

This session focuses on the differences in how you view your model. So how to control and customise the views of your 3D model.
The key topics trained include:
  • View creation
  • 3D manipulation
  • View control

This session shows you the basics of creating 3D models in AutoCAD. It walks you through the most straightforward ways to create new 3D shapes.

It shows you how to use the following commands to create 3D models:

– Extrude
– Revolve
– Sweep
This final session shows you how to create a drawing in 3D. It explains using angle views of your model and also how to create sections and work with elevations. It finishes by explaining how to enlarge sections of your model to create detailed views of it.
The key topics trained include:
  • Creating 1st and 3rd angle views
  • Plans
  • Elevations
  • Sections
  • Enlarged detail views

Am I Ready?

Instructor

AutoCAD Certified Instructor Logo

Simon is one of our regular trainers for this course. He is an Autodesk certified instructor.

He has been using AutoCAD for 35 years when he started work in an architectural practice.

He has been training people to use AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) for 30 years.

CPD Accreditation

Dates, Prices & Booking

STEP 1. Choose location

STEP 2. Select your date

STEP 3. Price

Price: £695.00 (+VAT)

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AutoCAD 3D Training – Introduction / Intermediate

AutoCAD 3D Introduction & Intermediate

CPD Certified
4.83 / 5
2 days.
Client Site Courses Available.
Online & London.

  • The basics of 3D modelling
  • Combining shapes to create solids
  • Extracting geometry from solid models
  • Sectioning a 3D model into 2D drawings
  • Using visual styles, cameras & views

Overview

 

  • The basics of 3D modelling

  • Combining shapes to create solids

  • Extracting geometry from solid models

  • Sectioning a 3D model into 2D drawings

  • Using visual styles, cameras & views

Full Syllabus

This session introduces the basics of 3D modelling using AutoCAD. It covers primitives (basic shapes) which can be used as the basis for other more complex shapes, or on their own and creating 3D scenes from 2D profiles. It then moves to show you how to create composite solids which are objects that are produced by combining two or more individual objects. It also covers some of the techniques for working in 3D and also how you can create a 3D model from some of your existing 2D cross-sections.
The key topics covered include:
  • Introduction to 3D
  • Creating Solid Primitives
  • Creating Models from 2D Profiles
  • Creating Composite Solids
  • Working in 3D
  • Creating Models from Cross Sections
Having shown you how to create solid models in the previous session, we now look at how you can edit your 3D models. So we show you how you can add detail to your existing models, how you can convert and edit them. We also look at how you extract dimensions and geometry from 3D models, and how you can replicate your models.
The key topics covered include:
  • Adding Detail to Your Solid Models
  • Converting Objects
  • Editing Solid Models
  • Extracting Geometry from Solid Models
  • Changing the Model Position
  • Duplicating the Model
  • Getting Information from 3D Objects
This session looks at extracting 2D drawings from your 3D models.
The key topics covered include:
  • Sectioning a Solid Model and Generating 2D Geometry
  • Creating working 2D Drawings from 3D Models
This session focuses on manipulating the view of a model once it has been produced. It starts by working though visual styles. These impact how your image is rendered as it could be made transparent, wireframe, or a number of other different visual styles depending on what style makes your model easiest to work with. It then moves onto creating cameras and views in your model before showing you how to introduce the sun, or other lighting into your model. It also shows you how to define materials in your models.
The key topics covered include:
  • Using Visual Styles
  • Create Cameras and Views
  • Navigating the Model
  • Using the Sun
  • Using Lights
  • Using Materials
  • Managing Materials
This final session looks at non-AutoCAD 3D packages and how they can be used.
The key topics covered include:
  • Reviewing imported models
  • Creating 2D drawings from Autodesk Inventor files
  • Looking at Autodesk Fusion

Am I Ready?

You do not need any previous experience of using AutoCAD 3D.

This course is designed for users who are proficient in working with 2D objects and have a need to create 3D models of their designs.

Instructor

AutoCAD Certified Instructor Logo

Simon is our usual trainer for this course. He is an Autodesk certified instructor.

He has been using AutoCAD for 35 years when he started work in an architectural practice.

He has been training people to use AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) for 30 years.

CPD Accreditation

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Where Do Your AutoCAD Courses Run?

London Training Venue & Course Details

St Clements House, 27 Clements Lane
London, EC4N 7AE
Tel: 0203 603 0150

Guildford Training Venue & Course Details

Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 688 488

Online Courses

We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.

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