AutoCAD Certificate
256 hours / Instructor
supported /CD included
If you are a student or
professional involved in the design or production of technical drawings, 3D
models, or photorealistic renderings and visualizations, you owe it to yourself
to learn AutoCAD. Quickly increase your productivity and enhance your
employability with the AutoCAD skills employers have come to expect. Architects,
Mechanical and Civil Engineers, Interior Designers, Furniture Designers, Set
Designers, Game Designers and all others involved in or interested in any the
design industry's many facets should read on and learn how online AutoCAD
training courses can quickly speed you to the forefront of your industry and
teach you the necessary skills to communicate and deliver your designs.
Courses Included
AutoCAD 1– Introductory 2D
In this introductory,
online CAD training course, students will learn the basic features of AutoCAD.
New concepts include setting up a drawing, navigating a drawing, basic
construction and editing commands, layering techniques, dimensioning and
annotation techniques, tiled and floating viewports and an introduction to
layouts and basic plotting procedures. Students will use these concepts and
procedures in the creation of a variety of two-dimensional technical drawings.
Detailed Online Course Description
The course content begins
with a series of simple mechanical style drawings designed to familiarize the
student with the most common construction and editing commands. After becoming
proficient with the basic techniques for creating and navigating a technical
drawing, students will move on to the creation of a series of architectural
style drawings including cornice brackets, an ornate iron roof cresting, and a
classic pediment portico.
Time saving techniques for
reusing content will be explored as the student learns how to convert the
portico entrance to a matching pediment double hung window in less than 10
minutes. While creating these part files an emphasis will be placed on proper
organizational layering techniques and the application of line weights to ensure
readability in the final plotted set of drawings. Furniture design will be
explored while learning dimensioning and annotation techniques which will be
applied to all existing drawings.
Students will learn how to
follow industry standards for annotation and layering and will become familiar
with both Mechanical and Architectural styles of dimensioning. Finally, students
will learn how to reuse content between drawings and will bring the
architectural parts that they have created earlier in the course into their
final project, a detailed front elevation of a classic, Second Empire style
house.
AutoCAD 2 - Advanced 2D
In this online CAD training
course, students will learn the advanced two dimensional capabilities of
AutoCAD. New concepts include: advanced dimensioning techniques such as lateral
tolerances and alternate units, advanced viewport creation and paperspace
detailing, annotation scaling techniques, multi-layout paperspace plotting,
hatching and presentation techniques, tables and fields, layer and selection
filters, blocks and symbol libraries, attributes, Dynamic Blocks, externally
referenced drawings, raster images, sheet sets, and publishing.
Detailed Online Course Description
The course content for
level two begins with a series of classic Shaker style furniture drawings from
which students will learn techniques for extracting detail drawings through the
manipulation of viewports and viewport specific layer controls. Next the
students will create a set of Architectural plan details containing numerous
material hatching patterns and will also learn how to work with tables and table
styles as they create a custom wall schedule table.
The next project begins
with a multi-layout floor plan where the student will learn how to use layer
states and viewport controls to display a single drawing in both a construction
document and a black line, presentation style. Students will create an
architectural symbol library containing blocks of doors and windows which will
be used in the floor plan drawing. Door schedules and window schedules will be
added and then students will learn how to add data to their blocks in the form
of attributes. These attributes will be contained within door, window and room
tags which will in turn be used to populate the associated schedules.
After completing the first
architectural project, students will learn how to work with AutoCAD's powerful
new Dynamic Block Editor which allows the user to assign parameters such as
dimensions and visibility states to a block.
The final project spans
classes 11 to 16 and revolves around an initial design for a recording studio to
be sited on a derelict property on the Toronto waterfront. The student will play
the part of several members of a team and will develop the project using
external references to divide it into a number of separate files including a
site drawing, a shell drawing and 3 separate files for east, west and north
wings. The student will learn how to work with and update references and also
learn how to work with raster images as they site the building footprint on a
scaled satellite photograph and satellite maps.
In the last two classes,
students will learn how to create sheet sets to easily plot a cohesive set of
drawings from separate files and will also learn how to Publish the drawings in
both PDF and DWF formats for sharing information with those that do not have
access to AutoCAD.
AutoCAD 3 - 3D Modeling
In this online CAD training
course you will master the powerful 3D modeling capabilities of the latest
versions of AutoCAD. New concepts include 3D workspaces, 3D user coordinate
systems, creating and modifying 3D primitives, working with visual styles, 3D
navigation tools, Booleans and composite solid modeling, Extrude and Revolve
operations, Region modeling, Helix, Sweep and Loft modeling techniques, editing
and manipulating models at both the object and sub object levels, 2D drawing
extraction procedures, meshes and surface modeling, sections and live sections,
assembly modeling, and an introduction to Rendering..
Detailed Online Course Description
Students will create over
50 detailed 3D practice models in this course along with 6 assignment models.
The content for the level three course begins with an exploration of the 3D
workspace environment.
Students will learn how to
create a series of simple models by combining solid primitives such as boxes,
wedges, and cylinders with the Union command. Students will learn to control the
User coordinate system and use the Subtract and Intersect command to create
increasingly complex primitive models before progressing with Extrusions,
Revolves, Sweeps, and Loft objects.
For the duration of the
course, emphasis is placed not only on modeling but also on drawing extraction
methods and students will learn techniques to create base, orthographic,
section, and auxiliary drawing views that can be easily updated as their model
changes. Advanced modeling techniques will be examined in depth as students
create complex freeform models and learn to display their work in live sectioned
views.
During the second half of
the course students will have the opportunity to pursue their own designs as
they work on optional assignments such as light fixtures, furniture pieces,
architectural parts and assemblies, and for the final assignment either an
entire store to be set in a supplied retail environment, or a classically
detailed exterior model of a two storey house.
AutoCAD 4 - Rendering and Customization
In this online CAD training
course you will master the powerful Rendering capabilities of the latest
versions of AutoCAD. New concepts include: Render Settings and Procedures with
Mental Ray, Camera views and Custom Backgrounds, Materials, Textures and
Finishes, Sunlight Systems and Shadows, User Lights and Attenuation, Faking
Indirect Illlumination, Advanced Mapping techniques, Landscape and Entourage,
Global Illumination and Photon Mapping, Final Gathering, Reflections and
Raytracing with Metals, Glass and Liquid Materials, Motion Path Animations,
Customizing the User Interface, Custom Toolbars, Custom Commands and Macros.
Includes 2 DVD set.
Detailed Online Course Description
Students will create
photo-realistic rendered images of both Exterior and Interior, Architectural
Environments, utilizing cameras, custom materials, sunlight systems as well as
custom, daytime and nighttime lighting solutions for both projects.
The course begins with an
exploration of the rendering environment and a discussion on model preparation.
Students will begin their Exterior project, assembling the part files and
assigning their first materials. After placing cameras to obtain architectural
style perspectives, students will specify custom background images and discuss
layout procedures and view controls. Students will continue to create and assign
materials to their exterior project learning to control texture map placement
and orientation with UVW mappers.
The next phase of the
project is to design daytime and nighttime lighting conditions using a mix of
Sunlight systems and User lighting. Students will continue to refine their
materials with advanced mapping techniqes and learn how to create custom
landscape objects with opacity mapping techniques. The final project is a set of
Interior renderings for a Kiosk in a larger retail environment. Students will
create several camera views, create and assign custom materials including
landscape objects, advanced metals, glasses, water and neon lights. Students
will design custom lighting solutions for their project and learn to use Global
Illumination and Final Gather to create realistic lighting.
The final phase of the
Interior project will involve the creation of a 10 second, architectural
walkthrough rendered with realistic texture mapped materials, and full lighting
with shadows. To end the course, students will learn a series of basic to
intermediate level customization techniques. Interface options, Workspaces,
Profiles and Startup routines will be explored in depth. Finally, students will
learn how to use the Customize Interface Editor and work with CUI files.
Students will create a custom dimensioning toolbar including a new, custom,
macro command with a user defined button image.
Instructor Bio
Kevin Brown, the developer
of CAD Train, has been creating and delivering CAD classes at one of the leading
technical training Colleges in Canada since the early 1990's. The Director of
two corporations, Kevin has provided CAD consulting and in-house training
services to a host of architectural and engineering firms in Canada's largest
city, Toronto.
In the past fourteen years,
Kevin and his team of instructors have delivered over twelve thousand CAD
courses to students from all walks of life and a variety of educational
backgrounds. With a background in Architecture as well as training in Mechanical
Design and Interior Design, Kevin has made a career of teaching students how to
communicate their designs in both two and three dimensions with the industry
leading CAD software, AutoCAD.
In addition to his skills
with Autodesk's flagship software, Kevin is well versed with a host of
Autodesk's most popular and powerful vertical applications and has developed and
taught courses in AutoCAD Architecture, Inventor, Revit Architecture, and
Autodesk VIZ.
Technical Requirements