Available Schedule:
New York Office     Mar 29, 2010 – Apr 07, 2010     9:00 AM to 5:00 PM    More

For AutoCAD users who want to create 3D based models with intelligent objects using the latest AutoCAD Architecture technology.

Topics Include:

• Design Development: Creating multi-component style-based walls with automatic cleanup. Controlling wall interaction by setting the priorities of individual components; Converting AutoCAD lines, arcs, and polylines to walls; Utilizing layout and column grids in 2D and 3D; Creating roofs from walls or AutoCAD polylines; Using style-based doors and windows with automatic cleanup and placement; Producing stairs and rails based on design rules; Taking advantage of toilet room layout; Using dynamic sections and elevations; Importing view-dependent Design Content library components for furniture, fixtures, and equipment; Extending the Design Content library with existing collections of 2D and 3D blocks; Using camera object for perspective views and AVI generation; Other topics include creating and modifying curtain walls, window assemblies, slabs, ceiling grids, slabs, structural elements, column grids, stairs, railings, and more.
  
  
• Construction Documentation: Layer grouping and sorting by industry standards; User-definable object display control; Block manipulation tools; Creating elevations and live sections dynamically linking your design. Schedules, drawing tags, and reports; Developing design content; Notes or reference documents attached to any object. Calculate areas and area groups. Architectural Desktop Design center documentation content; AEC dimensions and enhanced dimension tools for AEC objects, leaders, keynotes, and reference marks.
  
  
• Design Visualization: Autodesk Viz Renderer: Linking, Navigating through a Design, Lighting, Rendering, Materials.
  
  
• Conceptual Design: Producing mass models from drag-and-drop geometric primitives. Creating mass models. How to revolve, extrude, and sweep 2D geometry to create mass elements. Generating levels automatically from mass model.
  
  
• Update Topics include: UI enhancements, Viewport locking, Annotative scaling, Surface hatch toggle, Enhanced grip functionality, Easily edit profiles, Tables linked to Excel files, The Properties Palette Display tab, In Place Editing, Tool Catalogs Libraries, Adding Content. Drawing Management; Working in a Project Environment, The Project Browser, The Project Navigator: Publish / 3D DWF, Levels, Divisions, Categories, Constructs, Elements, Views, Plotting Sheets Sets, Materials: Process Overview, Material Components Displaying Materials in a Drawing, Working with Surface Hatches, Creating and Editing Materials. New and Enhanced Detail Component Manager. Synchronize Project Standards, AutoCAD Updates; Heads up Design, Workspaces-CUI.