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Autodesk AutoCAD Computer Aided Design for Beginners Short Course

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Autodesk AutoCAD Computer Aided Design for Beginners Short Course | On campus
Learn industry-standard CAD. Create plans, elevations, and details. Apply your knowledge through practical exercises and live projects. Essential for designers, architects, and engineers.

Course description

Course overview

Strong CAD design skills are a must for today's designer, architect or engineer. This course will teach you how to create plans, elevations, sections and details through technical drawing using one of the leading CAD design products.

This course is designed for people wanting to understand how using an industry standard program, like Autodesk CAD, can facilitate your daily work. It is taught through a series of engaging tutor demonstrations and practical exercises that give you the chance to apply your learning to live projects.

Who this course is for

This course is suitable for professionals who do technical drawing in their work or projects. You may be a civil engineer, product designer, architect or interior design technician.

Key information

Topics covered

  • Software interface
  • Drawing shortcuts using keys and the command line
  • Drawing techniques for scale. plans, sections, elevations and details
  • Organisation of drawings
  • Working with hatches
  • Formatting style for text, dimensions and annotations
  • Using blocks and groups
  • Plotting and printing
  • Automating out

Learning outcomes

  • Set up drawing packages
  • Create 2D plans and drawings to scale
  • Draw 2D designs with detail
  • Present and format work
  • Digital badge and certificate of attendance

Materials

  • Notebook and pen
  • USB stick or access to equivalent cloud storage

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