AutoCAD 3
for Architecture, Engineering and Construction

24 hours of training.
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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 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, database objects and the relational aspects of building sections, wall sections, multi-scale drawings and architectural details. Students will develop a set of working drawing set for a residential project using Office Drafting Standards.

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: 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.