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Traning Dots Program Summary: This 24 hour course is designed to help you produce complete building projects quickly, efficiently, and accurately using Autodesk® Architectural Desktop. It is designed for the drafter, designer, engineer, architect or user with who is already familiar with AutoCAD commands. This course is designed to teach you to create and edit walls, doors, and windows, roofs, stairs and railings. To add annotation symbols and schedule tables to your drawing and learn to use the layout tabs and work with layer keying.

Who Should Attend?: This course is designed to bring the drafter, designer, architect, engineer or experienced AutoCAD user to a productive level of Architectural Desktop experience. It is an appropriate course for architectural, facilities or interior design disciplines and for individuals who edit, view or work with others that create design content.

Program Prerequisites: Advanced AutoCAD Techniques or six months AutoCAD experience.

Course # Course Name Hours
3501 Introduction to Architectural Desktop 24

Course Content: Using the Architectural Desktop user interface, AEC templates, AEC objects, object styles, object commands, editing features, display features, display controls, layer management, and drawing standards.

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to confidently create, edit, and manipulate AEC objects.

  • Use AEC template files.
  • Use wall features.
  • Use window and door features.
  • Creation and modification of window and door styles.
  • Create and edit stairs.
  • Create and edit railings.
  • Create and edit roofs.
  • Creation of AEC slabs.
  • Work with structural objects.
  • Create of ceiling grids.
  • Create sections and elevations.
  • Use of the layer manager.
  • Use the display system and display manager.
  • Work with schedules.
  • Use of dimension tools.

    Course Outline: This is a detailed outline for the 24 hour Autodesk Architectural Desktop Fundamentals course. It incorporates the fundamental commands and features of creating production drawings in Autodesk Architectural Desktop and the techniques for using those in one hands-on course.

    Course Covers:

    Introductions
  • Personal Introductions
  • Course Outline and Objectives

    AEC Template Files
  • Creating a new drawing with an AEC template

    Space Planning
  • Space Object and Styles
  • Boundaries
  • Converting spaces and boundaries

    Mass Modeling
  • Working from Layouts
  • Mass elements and groups
  • Boolean functions

    Wall Features
  • Creating walls
  • Modifying walls
  • Controlling wall cleanup
  • Using wall cleanup groups
  • Trimming and extending roof and floor lines
  • Creating and using wall styles

    Window and Door Features
  • Placing windows
  • Placing doors
  • Moving and modifying windows
  • Moving and modifying doors
  • Manipulating window and door anchor properties

    Creating and Modifying Window and Door Styles
  • Modifying door style properties
  • Modifying door shapes and door types
  • Modifying door style standard sizes
  • Creating custom door styles using custom blocks

    Creating and Editing Stairs
  • Creating stairs
  • Modifying stairs
  • Creating stair styles

    Creating and Editing Railings
  • Creating railings
  • Modifying railings
  • Creating railing styles

    Creating and Editing Roofs
  • Creating and editing roof objects
  • Creating and editing roof slabs
  • Creating and editing roof slab styles

    Creating AEC Slabs
  • Creating a floor slab

    Working with Structural Objects
  • Using the structural member catalog
  • Creating columns and grids
  • Placing beams and braces
  • Bar joist styles

    Creating Ceiling Grids
  • Creating a ceiling grid in closed polyline
  • Add light fixtures to a grid
  • Mask a grid with lights

    Creating Sections and Elevations
  • Creating a 2D section object
  • Working with 2D section/elevation styles
  • Working with design rules
  • Generate section and elevations from an external referenced model

    Layer Manager
  • Using layer standards and layer keys
  • Using the layer manager

    Display System and Display Manager
  • Using display configurations
  • Modifying entity display properties
  • Customizing the display system
  • Creating a custom display configuration

    Working with Schedules
  • Adding a schedule to a drawing
  • Editing schedules
  • Working with schedule table styles
  • Adding schedule tags
  • Generating a schedule from an external reference model

    Dimension Tools
  • Using dimension tools

    Closing Remarks
  • Evaluations
  • Certifications



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