Course description
AutoCAD Essentials | In-House
SquareOne Training's AutoCAD Essentials In-House training course is offered anywhere in your offices or as a closed course from our training centres in Merseyside or Manchester. We also offer this online to any company in Europe.
This course is perfect for beginners and teaches you all the essential tools and features of AutoCAD needed to create and modify 2D drawings with precision, implement layers, blocks, and annotations for clear communication, and understand fundamental drafting techniques and best practices. Finally, you'll prepare and plot your drawings for a professional presentation.
AutoCAD: Essentials will help you develop the confidence and expertise needed to produce high-quality 2D drawings. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to tackle various design challenges in architecture, engineering, and other fields.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This AutoCAD Essentials Level 1 course is best suited to new users of AutoCAD or AutoCAD Light.
Course Pre-Requisites
No previous CAD experience is necessary, although drafting, design or engineering experience would be an advantage. It is recommended that delegates have working knowledge of Microsoft Windows.
For more information on suitability, please send an enquiry here.
Training Course Content
This AutoCAD Essentials Level 1 course will teach delegates to navigate and use AutoCAD and AutoCAD Light. The following modules will be included:
- How to use the user interface
- Display controls including Zoom and Pan
- Use a drawing template
- Create lines, polylines, arcs, circles, splines, polygons and ellipses
- Use object snaps and tracking
- Work with units
- Use Polar Tracking and PolarSnap
- How to select objects
- Use move, copy and array
- Use mirror, rotate and scale
- Create layers, linetypes and lineweights
- Match object properties
- Change object properties
- Use the inquiry commands
- Trimming and extending
- Use parallel and offset geometry
- Join and break objects
- Use fillet and chamfer tools
- Use layouts and viewports
- Create and edit multiline text
- Use different text styles
- Create and edit dimensions, dimensioning and dimension styles
- Work with DesignCentre
- Create and edit hatching
- Create and insert blocks
- Plot drawings, including PDF
Why choose SquareOne Training
25 years' experience of delivering quality IT Training Services
All trainers Certified Microsoft Office Trainer (MOS) or higher
Public and in-house training throughout the UK
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Expenses
This course is delivered on an in-house basis and is customised to suit the needs of each team, company or organisation. For a custom training quote, please send an enquiry here.
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