This course will introduce you to AutoCAD (AutoCAD LT). You’ll learn how to create and edit 2D drawings efficiently, share and exchange designs, and print out your plans in different formats and scales.
Training at your location, our location or remotely
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3d - 21h
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This course will introduce you to AutoCAD (AutoCAD LT). You’ll learn how to create and edit 2D drawings efficiently, share and exchange designs, and print out your plans in different formats and scales.
Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Discover the AutoCAD graphical user interface, workspace, and help
Create and edit 2D drawings
Construct precise geometrical figures
Use and configure layers
Develop complex plans with mark-up
Create a template with the style guide and CAD standard
Intended audience
Managers, architects, engineers, technicians, designers, and engineering drafters involved in the creation and modification of plans.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of a graphical operating system. Experience required.
Course schedule
Introduction
The new interface. New Tab page.
Help window, animated ribbon arrow.
Choosing tool palettes and saving workspaces.
File formats.
Hands-on work
Learn about and register for the TOSA® certification option. Managing custom spaces.
Creating drawings
Object creation tools. The 2D polyline and Pedit command.
Selection methods: Rectangular, path, and properties.
Designing and marking up a plan. Automatically creating measurements based on the context of your drawing.
Blocks.
Links between blocks and layers.
Defining and associating block attributes.
Design Center and blocks.
Extracting data from block attributes.
Exercise
Creating an interactive title block with blocks and attributes.
Templates
Existing templates. Creating a template.
CAD standard manager and templates.
Verify a file with the CAD standard.
Hands-on work
Creating a template with the style guide and CAD standard
Presentation and layout.
Layout tools and DWG to PDF format. Model space and paper space.
Use of layout viewports. Multiple windows.
Publishing plans: Printer and plotter.
Electronic distribution. Improved PDF files.
Attaching PDF files to your drawings.
Hands-on work
Printing plans as PDFs.
Certification
If registering for the TOSA® certification option, you must do so at the same time as course registration. The exam is made up of a 60-minute adaptive test with 35 exercises. The result indicates your skill level. Merely taking the course is not sufficient to achieve a maximum score. The exam must be both scheduled and then taken online within 4 weeks following the start of your session.
Practical details
Hands-on work
Discussions, experience-sharing, demonstrations, tutorials, and real cases.
Teaching methods;
Active learning based on examples, demonstrations, experience-sharing, real cases, and an evaluation of what was learned from the training.
Customer reviews
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Dates and locations
Select your location or opt for the remote class then choose your date.
Remote class
No session at the moment, we invite you to consult the schedule of distance classes.
3d
- 21h00 
