AutoCAD 2D Advanced

Course

In Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Price on request

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    Course

  • Location

    Leamington spa, warwicks...

The advanced AutoCAD 2D course builds on the foundation level skills, and concentrates on exploring the effects of fully exploiting the standard commands to achieve better results. More of the system will be examined and the importance and use of system variables will be explored.

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Location

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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire (Warwickshire)
27 Newbold Terrace East, CV32 4ES

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Course programme

The advanced AutoCAD 2D course builds on the foundation level skills, and concentrates on exploring the effects of fully exploiting the standard commands to achieve better results. More of the system will be examined and the importance and use of system variables will be explored.

Course Content

Blocks and WBlocks
- Creating and using
- Nested blocks
- Wblocking an entire drawing
- The importance of layer zero
- Assigning attributes

Attribute Extraction
- Using the wizard
- Automatically producing parts lists and BOM
- Linking directly with Excel

Purging a Drawing
- Removing unwanted blocks, layers, linetypes, text styles, dimension styles, multi-line styles, plot styles and shapes

External References
- Advantages and disadvantages compared with Insert
- Effects on file size
- Automatic updates

AutoCAD Design Centre
- Inserting blocks, layers and styles
- Sharing layouts and plot styles
- The effect on file size and management

Custom Toolbars and Icons
- Creating new toolbars and icons
- The effects on the MNS menu file
- Using MENULOAD to remove any customisation

Additional Features
- Shortcut Keys
- Hyperlinks
- Templates

AutoLISP
- An introduction to AutoLISP programming using the visual LISP editor.
- Loading and running LISP programmes

Plotting
- Adding a plotter
- Plot styles
- Model space/paper space and layouts
- Using tiled and floating view ports
- Obtaining scale factors for plotting

AutoCAD 2D Advanced

Price on request