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Available Schedule:
Philadelphia Office     Aug 09, 2010 – Aug 13, 2010     9:00 AM to 5:00 PM    More
New York Office     Aug 19, 2010 – Aug 27, 2010     9:00 AM to 5:00 PM    More

For AutoCAD® users who require comprehensive training.

Topics Include:

• User Interface: Dynamic Input, Application Window, Drawing Window, Multi- Design Environment, Enterprise CUI, Menus, Ribbon Tabs and Panels, Cursor Menus, Command Line, Right-Click Shortcut menus, AutoCAD® Text Window, Status Area, Function Keys, Help, Using the user interface, Auto complete" Tool Palettes; Customize, Import/Export, Locking
  
  
• Creating and Accessing Drawing Files: Creating, Saving, Opening, Backups
  
  
• Getting Started: Creating Lines, Coordinate Entry, Selecting/ Removing Objects
  
  
• Design Tools; AutoSnap, Hyperlinks on Objects, Object Properties Manager, Draw Commands and Features: Creating Circles and Arcs, Creating Points, Creating Polylines, Creating Ellipses and Elliptical Arcs, Creating Splines, Creating Construction Objects, Design Center, Communication Center
  
  
• Layers and Object Properties: Layer Groups and Filters, Creating and Managing Layers, Controlling Object Properties, CAD Standards,
  
  
• Inquiry Commands: Distance, Area, Mass Properties, List, ID Point, Time, Status
  
  
• Display Commands: the View, Viewports, Updating the Display
  
  
• Object Snaps: Using Object Snaps, Running Osnaps, Osnap Overrides, Controlling Auto-Snaps, Object Tracking and Polar Tracking
  
  
• Edit Commands and Features: Editing with Grips, Edit Commands, Draw Order
  
  
• Hatching: Auto-close boundary gaps, Trim, Associative Hatching, Controlling Hatch Visibility, Converting Hatch Patterns, Backward Compatibility, Auto Draworder. Add to boundary, Specify origin
  
  
• Tables, Fields, Callouts
  
  
• Drawing Annotation: Creating Dynamic Text, Creating Multi-line Text with a background mask, Creating Text Styles, Editing Text, Spell Check, Spacetrans
  
  
• Dimensioning: Arc Length, Jogged Dimension, Creating and Editing, Associative Dimensions, Quick Dimension, Styles, Variables, linetypes for all dim lines.
  
  
• External References: Introduction to xrefing dwgs, dwfs pdfs, images, Overlay versus attach.
  
  
• Blocks and Dynamic Blocks: data extraction, Description, Creating and Updating Block Definitions, In-Place Block Edit, Inserting Block Files, Defining Attributes, Modifying Attributes,
  
  
• Sheet Set Manager; creating a Sheet Index
  
  
• Printing and Plotting: Publish, Background Plotting, Print/Plot Config. Dialog Box, Model Space/Paper Space Plotting, Creating Plot Styles, Defining Page Setups
  
  
• Preferences: Setting AutoCAD® Options, Windows Configuration Considerations
  
  
• Utility Commands: Purge Utility, Utility Dialog Box, Exporting Files, EditTime,
  
  
• Conceptual Design Features: 3d editing tool, loft, massing tools, Visual styles, Realistic Renderings (Mental Ray), Material and lighting effects, sectioning tools