We offer 6-session accelerated classes. Our On-Site AutoCAD classes are offered two times a week.

What you learn: Creating an Electronic Construction Document Set of a building with AutoCAD. Learn important manipulation and management tools for assembling and integrating drawings within the documentation set. The class assignments are handled as they would be in a professional architectural office, where class participants work as members of a team across the computer network. When we developed our curriculum, we started with the requirements of the AutoDesk Training Centers. We enhanced that curriculum to provide you even more exposure to AutoCAD -- and especially with relevant skills needed for the Construction Industry.

Prerequisite: Fundamental working knowledge of the Windows environment and AutoCAD I and II or instructor approval.

Course Description: This course is designed to provide students the opportunity of working on a (simulated) real project, seeing exactly what a professional office goes through in order to create and assemble a complete working document set. In this course, it is expected that participants will have reasonably strong AutoCAD skills and that they can focus on the production aspects of assembling and detailing a construction document set using hand-generated construction documents as a base. This course is designed for architectural interns, architects, EIT candidates, contractors and other design professionals familiar with AutoCAD. We utilize AutoCAD, which is the dominant Computer-Aided Design program used within the Construction industry. This course teaches how to apply architectural drafting skills to computer-aided drawings. Technical aspects of AutoCAD will be addressed including file referencing, paper/ model space, database objects and the relational aspects of building sections, wall sections and architectural details. Students will develop a complete working drawing set for a commercial project using Office Drafting Standards.

Course Project: Developing source files -- titleblocks, titleblock components and other drafting items which must be successfully designed and manage to optimize the CAD drafting and management process. The class also creates as-built drawings of a commercial building project. Develop working drawing set including site plan, floor plan, enlarged plans, elevation, building and wall section, details and schedules.