AutoCAD 3 CAD 301
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS 1

24 hours of training.
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This course is the first part of a two-course sequence.

The 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 a construction document set.

This course is designed for construction industry professionals, including architectural interns, architects, EIT candidates, contractors and other design professionals familiar with AutoCAD.

Technical aspects of AutoCAD will be addressed including file referencing, paper/model space and multi-scale drawings.

Students will begin developing a set of construction documents for a residential project using Office Drafting Standards.

Students will also work on a project where they are provided an existing CAD project file, and the students must extrapolate all components from the project and then reassemble the components with a specific task in mind.

This course is being taught in a combined lecture/lab environment. The majority of the time, the student will be working on the computer. A typical class period will involve the instructor's direct prompting the students on the computer through a series of steps until thorough comprehension of and execution of that command is demonstrated.

Course Project: (1) 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. (2) The class also creates drawings of a residential building project. Develop working drawing set including floor plan and enlarged plans. (3) Create parametric drawings and (4) Create an enlarged plan sheet by extrapolating information from a full-size building plan.