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AutoCAD Training Courses
The AutoCAD Training courses below are conducted at our training facility in Lake County, Ohio or on‑site at your location. Complete course descriptions can be found by using the link at the end of each course summary.
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AutoCAD - The Basics
No AutoCAD experience is necessary, but participants are expected to be comfortable opening, saving and closing files; moving, copying and deleting files; locating files in different folders and reading blueprints. Participants are introduced to the AutoCAD drawing environment and the necessary skills to begin creating and editing drawings. The focus of this course is on using accurate and efficient techniques to drawing and modifying basic shapes.
Exercises for the workshop are drawn from a variety of disciplines, including part design, facility layout, architectural drafting and schematics. Participants for each workshop are surveyed to determine their areas of interest and when possible, exercises are tailored to match the needs of the workshop attendees.
Register (pdf, 38kb) Length: 3 Days Price: $795
See the details for CCAD's AutoCAD ‑ The Basics training course.
AutoCAD - Beyond The Basics
Participants are introduced to complex objects and editing methods as well as styles to manage text, dimensions and leaders. Additional text and dimension commands are presented. Techniques for using layouts and viewports to create multi-scale, multi-page designs are explored. Participants will create libraries of reusable shapes (blocks) and add changeable text (attributes) to the blocks.
Experience with the topics covered in the AutoCAD ‑ The Basics course is necessary as this workshop builds on these concepts.
Exercises for the workshop are drawn from a variety of disciplines, including part design, facility layout, architectural drafting and schematics. Participants for each workshop are surveyed to determine their areas of interest and when possible, exercises are tailored to match the needs of the workshop attendees.
Register (pdf, 38kb)
Length: 3 Days Price: $795
See the details for CCAD's AutoCAD ‑ Beyond The Basics training course.
AutoCAD - Advanced Concepts
Participants learn to leverage existing data by linking drawing (xref) and image files using the reference manager, coordinate information in text, attributes and dimensions using fields and generate tables, bills of material and schedules directly from blocks and other drawing data using a variety of techniques. Participants also learn to improve efficiency by customizing the user interface, developing templates and establishing CAD standards.
Experience with the topics covered in the AutoCAD - The Basics and AutoCAD - Beyond the Basics courses are necessary as this workshop builds on the concepts learned in these courses.
Register (pdf, 38kb)
Length: 3 Days Price: $795
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AutoCAD - CAD Manager Essentials
This seminar will outline AutoCAD techniques CAD Professionals can employ to improve drawing efficiency, implement consistent procedures and facilitate more seamless exchange of drawings between individuals, clients and vendors.
Who Should Attend
- CAD Professionals
- CAD Managers
- IT Professionals
- Engineering Managers
Participants learn how templates are created to provide the initial formatting and printing parameters for new drawings, develop CAD Standards to check and fix drawings that do not match the formatting standards of their department and use eTransmit to facilitate the exchange of drawings between clients and vendors.
Participants should have a basic understanding of AutoCAD.
Register (pdf, 38kb)
Length: 1 Day Price: $325
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AutoCAD - Update to 2010
This course is designed for individuals who are proficient using AutoCAD 2000-2008 and are updating to AutoCAD 2009/2010. It begins with an overview of changes to the user interface and basic drawing/editing commands and techniques. New features are introduced and explored with discussion of how to integrate the enhancements in an established AutoCAD environment.
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Length: 3 Days Price: $795
See the details for CCAD's AutoCAD ‑ Update to 2010 training course.
AutoCAD - Introduction to AutoLISP
This two day workshop covers the fundamentals of Autolisp programming for the AutoCAD user. Participants will learn the basics of programming, beginning with the fundamentals of Autolisp, understanding data types, working with variables, getting user input and planning a program. They will learn to calculate points used with AutoCAD commands in programs to automate the drawing of figures. Functions related to selecting and modifying objects via Autolisp rather than AutoCAD commands will be introduced. Numerous programming examples will be explored that participants can use in developing their own applications.
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Length: 2 Days Price: $625
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AutoCAD - Intermediate AutoLISP
This two day workshop covers the refining AutoLISP programs. Topics include creating default values, reading and writing to text files, creating entities programmatically, working with extended entity data, building dialog boxes and auto loading program files.
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Length: 2 Days Price: $625
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Autodesk Inventor - The Basics
This five day workshop covers modeling terminology and theory, view tools, creating sketches, using constraints and dimensions, building features, assembling models, working with exploded views, producing drawings and developing part lists and bills of materials.
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Length: 5 Days Price: $1375
See the details for CCAD's Autodesk Inventor - The Basics training course.