AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users
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AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users
AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users - 3 day training course
This three day AutoCAD for new users course is for design professionals who are getting started with using AutoCAD for 2D design work. Upon completion, you will be able to create, edit, organise, annotate, and output your 2D designs. This course focuses on building your new skills through hands-on learning.
Course outcomes
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the AutoCAD environment and understand CAD drawing scale.
- Effectively move around a drawing, controlling AutoCAD’s display.
- Use AutoCAD’s drafting tools for creating 2D geometry.
- Organise information in your drawing using layers and blocks.
- Annotate your drawing with text and dimensions.
- Output your drawings using different printing and plotting options.
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Suitability and application
This AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users course is suitable for first time users of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.
Prerequisites: Delegates must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows.
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AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users course content
This AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users course is designed to cover the following areas:
Getting Started
- Communicating with AutoCAD
- Understanding the AutoCAD user interface
- Getting out of trouble
- Options for starting a drawing
- Managing drawing files
Viewing a Drawing
- Understanding drawing scale in AutoCAD
- Moving around a drawing in “real time”
- Time-saving display tools
Basic Drafting Tools
- Using different coordinate systems in CAD
- Using object snaps to control accuracy
- Saving time with running osnaps
- Your electronic T-square
Creating and Editing 2D Geometry
- Creating lines, circles, and arcs in AutoCAD
- Erasing, moving, copying, scaling, and rotating objects
- Using grips for better editing
Managing Object Properties
- Adding windows Organising drawing geometry using layers
- Working with different linetypes
- Options for changing object properties
Basic Drawing Techniques
- Using AutoCAD to make objects parallel, longer, repeat, or symmetrical
- Trim unwanted segments, round object corners
- Creating orthographic views
Saving Time with Blocks
- Draw something once and use it many times over
- Using a library of drawing components
- Using components from other drawings
Drawing Annotation
- Use single and multiline text
- Learning dimension techniques
- Dimensioning angles, arcs and circles
- Quick dimensions
Working with Layouts
- Creating sheets for plotting
- Using viewports
- Setting layouts to plot to scale
Improving Drawing Appearance
- How to use hatch patterns to represent different parts or materials
- Getting Your Drawings Out
- Plotting options, controlling plotting scale
Expenses
The price of this AutoCAD Level 1 | 2D for New Users course is dependent on location:
Glasgow / Manchester: £675 + VAT
London: £745 + VAT
Course dates: Please contact us here to enquire about course dates, and availability
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Cadassist Ltd
Who are Cadassist?
Cadassist is a design and data management specialist working with some of the UK’s leading design organisations. We use our technical expertise to help them realise the promise of their technology through professional services. Cadassist is an Authorised Training Centre (ATC) for Autodesk and runs accredited courses for Autodesk and other CAD software packages.
Why Train with Cadassist ?
Cadassist offers a comprehensive range of CAD courses for basic/beginner through to advanced in order to help boost your career, meet industry requirements, increase productivity, and stay on top of the latest technology.
Rated Number 1 by Autodesk customers for best overall customer experience* you can count on Cadassist to go the extra mile to ensure you get the most from your training budget.
With training centres across the UK, a team of experienced and stimulating instructors, Cadassist is committed to the provision of high quality, practical, hands-on application training.
In addition, Cadassist can deliver any course at your chosen location with our mobile classroom for up to eight delegates.
Cadassist Training features
- Hands-on, authorised instruction from our expert trainers, using a combination of certified courseware and real-world design examples
- Instruction for a group of up to eight delegates
- A copy of the training material used in the course, including USB pen drive, for each delegate
- A review of your sample drawing files to allow us to configure course content
- Official Autodesk Certificate of Completion
- A Learning Guarantee
- Access to Certification Exams | Certified & Associate
Tailored training available; Anytime, Any format, Anywhere
- Our custom Design Resource Review can take you through a step-by-step process you can use to inventory your current work situation. The only way you can chart an intelligent course for your CAD strategy is to acknowledge where you are, and where you need to be.
- We pride ourselves on delivering results, and with focussed training, you gain the following:
- Higher quality - focused on need, designed for specific problem solving
- Less down time - users are away as long as required to get their necessary skills
- More training options - skills that are rarely used but deemed important can be documented for future use rather than taught in a classroom. Users avoid having to learn skills that they will rarely use but still have them at their disposal.
* Based on results from Autodesk ATC Evaluation web site; 2010, all UK Autodesk Training Centres
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