CAD 2D - Intermediate

About this course:

In this module, we will enhance our CAD skills to improve their skills for 2D drawing productions. This course is appropriate for users of all disciplines – architects, engineers, designers, facilities planners, drafters, and others.

• Learn tips and tricks to speed up drawing production
• Improve your drawing accuracy
• Save time by reusing your drawing content
• Improve drawing consistency 

Areas covered:

• Use object selection and visibility to speed up your designs
• Change layer states by freezing, locking and unlocking
• Isolate, filter and merge layers, use Layer Walk
• Understand temporary tracking
• Work with blocks and block settings
• Understand tool palettes – the easiest way to insert blocks
• Attach data to your blocks
• Use drawing templates for the settings that you want to include as the foundation for new drawings
• Use CAD’s standards tools to work quickly and efficiently
• Top tips for a drawing layering scheme, create new layers
• Simplify your day-to-day work by creating layouts that match your printers and paper sizes
• Make complex drawings easier to navigate with named views
• Use model space viewports to display multiple close-up views
• Add annotation scale to objects enabling them to display in viewports at different scales
• Exert better control over annotation with text and dimension styles
• Use external references to enable members of a design team share common source files
• Understand how to create a text object that automatically updates
• Understand how to display information in a table in your drawing

Course length:

Intermediate: 2 days

The course cost is £540 per delegate
The course cost with Accelerate grant is £324 per delegate

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