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Autodesk AutoCAD Intermediate 2 Days - Online
Key Course Details:
Level:
Intermediate
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£395 + vat
Join the professionals in getting the best out of this powerful 2D-design program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of AutoCADs advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in drawing design.
With our help, you will take your existing AutoCAD know-how and enhance it as you learn to add new levels of complexity and detail to your drawings. We will demonstrate how you can draw complex objects and apply better dimensioning and annotation. You will learn how to control the wealth of options available to improve drawing productivity and flexibility.
Join the professionals in getting the best out of this powerful 2D-design program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of AutoCADs advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in drawing design.
With our help, you will take your existing AutoCAD know-how and enhance it as you learn to add new levels of complexity and detail to your drawings. We will demonstrate how you can draw complex objects and apply better dimensioning and annotation. You will learn how to control the wealth of options available to improve drawing productivity and flexibility.
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AutoCAD Intermediate 2 Days
Course Details
This 2-day Intermediate course will take your existing AutCAD knowledge to the next level as we discuss more advanced 2D drawing techniques and productivity tools. Join us as we discover how to draw and manipulate complex objects, rework existing content and work with layers, sheet sets and tables.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Create complex objects
- Manipulate objects and data
- Reuse existing content
- Adjust object positions and angles
- Benefit from improved workflow with layers and layouts
- Work with tables in your designs
Our goals are for you to learn the advanced techniques that will improve the quality of your CAD drawings, and for you to become a confident user of AutoCAD.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for those who wish to enhance their existing knowledge of AutoCAD to improve the quality and productivity of their drawings.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Drawing Complex Objects- Working with revision clouds to highlight points of your drawing for revision.
- Using Wipeout as an object within a block to create incredible components for your projects.
- How to work with the boundary tool to access quickly to total areas and more.
- Improve your selections techniques with the use of selection by filtering properties (quick select)
- Light up your drawing by purging unused content for your final project
- Learn how to evenly divide a basic object (line, circle, ellipse, arc) into even spaces or segments
- Ins and outs of dimension styles, understanding the dimension styles and the full power of if
- Working with multiline text, dynamic columns and format within a text box
- Ins and outs of multileader styles, understanding the multileader styles and the full power of if
- Working with the design centre to quickly import content into your drawing
- Creating dynamic block, the next step in the world of reusable content
- How can dynamic block improve drastically your workflow saving you hours of work.
- Learn how external references can improve your workflow as a team across multiple files
- Importing non native AutoCAD files such a JPEGs and PDFs
- How to add data to your block by using attributes
- Using attributes to tag block references
Layer Management- Learn the power of layer filters, whether is a dynamically updated filter or just a group filter this can save you loads of scrolling through your layer list
- How can the layer state manager can help you to quickly switch from on version of your layers to another
- Unifying you layers to the standards of your company
- Learn how to bring your project to print size using layouts.
- Create colour coded drawings.
- Create viewports to show your projects on a paper size space at different scales
- Present your project using multiple layouts.
- How to set up the page size, configure the page layout and get everything ready for printing.
- Creating sheet sets to export all layouts in one go
- Proper use of the properties palette to adjust and edit your drawing and blocks
- Fields, and automated way to extract data, where is as text or an attribute, that’s up to you.
- How you link external data using tables from an excel spreadsheet
- Inserting and editing tables.
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Location Details
This course is provided as a remote online course with live training provided by our Autodesk Certified Trainer.
Accessing the live online course anywhere is easy and all you will need is:
- Computer with the trial or full version of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT installed
- Separate screen or device for the shared video display
- Sound output via computer or headset
- Ideally a camera and microphone on the computer for remote contact
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.
It is important to note this is not a classroom based training.
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AutoCAD Intermediate 2 Days - Upcoming Online Course Dates
29 Jan - 30 Jan £395 + vat 12 Feb - 13 Feb £395 + vat 26 Mar - 27 Mar £395 + vat 09 Apr - 10 Apr £395 + vat 29 May - 30 May £395 + vat 18 Jun - 19 Jun £395 + vat 16 Jul - 17 Jul £395 + vat -
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Next Dates:
29 Jan - 30 Jan
12 Feb - 13 Feb
26 Mar - 27 Mar
09 Apr - 10 Apr
29 May - 30 May
18 Jun - 19 Jun
Over 15 years of providing certified Autodesk AutoCAD training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
great location, instructor had a high knowledge and understanding of Auto-cad and understood the parts i was struggling with, took time for me to catch up and understand making the learning experience a good on.
19/11/2024
5/5 Stars
Loved the course from Minute 1. Brilliant insight, Brilliant instructor
19/11/2024
5/5 Stars
Very helpful, understanding and clear
06/08/2024
5/5 Stars
Really enjoyed the training, very helpfull.
01/08/2024
5/5 Stars
Instructor easy to understand and explain the best way of drawing. Using examples i could relate in order to understand what he was trying to explain. Enjoyed very much.
30/07/2024
5/5 Stars
Great course, learnt alot.
08/05/2024
5/5 Stars
Really helpful to get the basics of CAD.
08/05/2024
5/5 Stars
There could have been a handbook/guidebook to go through each step.
08/05/2024
5/5 Stars
I found the training course really good and informative, it has certainly put my mind at ease at using AutoCAD in my role.
08/05/2024
5/5 Stars
The online course was very useful and fully enjoyed getting to know how to generate site plans and templates.
08/05/2024
Whats Included:
Live online remote tuition 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the London Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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