Fast Track FastCAD

Course Information

FastCAD has a reputation for being relatively easy to learn and use. However, this often masks the fact that although it is easy to create a drawing, there are many different ways of going about it and it pays to start with the most efficient method. To meet this need, Leonardo Computer Systems' ‘Fast Track' FastCAD training is a concentrated course which is structured to take the beginner to basic literacy in FastCAD 2D drafting, in just 1 day. The trainee can then develop their FastCAD skills whilst doing their normal work, confident that drafting tasks are being tackled in the most efficient manner.

Course Format

There is 1 instructor to 1 student. The emphasis is on gaining clear understanding of basics. Then, the course concentrates on doing. It is composed of sessions arranged in a 1, 2, 3 - review format (where 1 is a demonstration, 2 is a guided student exercise, and 3 is an unaccompanied student exercise with help on hand). Real drawings are the subject matter, not academic exercises.

Individual attention = fast progress.

Because of Leonardo's practical experience in both Construction and Manufacturing, we structure your course around the sort of drawings that you will actually be doing, not around a rigid set of examples.

Topics Covered :-

• The use of scale, making and saving prototype drawings.
• Accurate drawing using lines, construction lines, multilines, arcs circles and curves.
• Drawing objects accurately relative to other objects.
• Application of dimensions. Setting and saving dimension styles.
• Changing drawing geometry accurately.
• Trimming chamfering and filleting.
• Copying, moving, and deleting drawing geometry.
• Making and retrieving symbols.
• Creation and use of layers.
• Entry and handling of text, Fonts.
• Printing and plotting.
• Hatching.
• Saving and organising your work.

Topics not covered:
(but briefly explained and demonstrated)

• 3D
• Digitising or scanning in existing drawings
• Installing and configuring FastCAD (will be covered on request)

Course Time

Courses commence at 9.30 am and finish at 5.

Your FastCAD skills after the course:

If you are in Manufacturing, you will be able to make component and assembly drawings. Apply dimensions, hatch areas and add notes. You will be able to create and store symbols and retrieve them into your drawing. You will be able to edit your drawing, stretch, copy and move parts of it. You will be able to sit down at a computer, open and look at a drawing critically, and you will understand the basics of good housekeeping as applied to your computers.

If you are in the Construction Industry you will be able to enter survey coordinates and draw a site, draw a floorplan, project an elevation from it and make good use of layers. You will be able to create and store symbols and retrieve them into your drawing. You will be able to edit your drawing, stretch, copy and move parts of it. You will be able to sit down at a computer, open and look at a drawing critically, and you will understand the basics of good housekeeping as applied to computers.