AutoCAD Architecture – Advanced
Course length: 3 days
Upcoming Classes in Mentor, OH
Call 440-255-8788, or email us training@caddfx.com for more information.
Description
This hands-on course covers many of the advanced features of AutoCAD Architecture. Students learn how to customize walls, elevations, and sections, create massing studies and space studies, create object styles for wall, windows, doors, spaces, curtain walls, and several annotation objects, create custom content, setup project standards and customize layers and the display system.
Day 1
General Style Information
- Using the Style Manager
- General Style Properties
- Working With Materials, Classifications, and Display Properties
Wall Tools
- Creating and Changing Wall Modifiers
- Miscellaneous Wall Tools
- Complex Wall Shapes
Advanced Sections and Elevations
- Horizontal and Vertical Sections
- Subdivisions, Linework, Material Boundaries
Massing Studies
- Mass Elements and Mass Groups
- Converting Mass Elements to Walls
Day 2
Space Planning
- Modifying Spaces
- Grouping Spaces into Zones
- Evaluating Space Information
- Display Themes and Spaces
Architectural Object Styles
- Creating Door, Window, and Space Styles
Annotation Object Styles
- Schedule Table Styles
- AEC Dimension Styles and the AEC Dimension Style Wizard
- Creating Display Theme Styles
- Curtain Wall and Door/Window Assembly Styles
Day 3
Customizing Content
- Customizing Tool Palettes
- Using the Content Browser
- Creating Multi-View Blocks
- Creating Custom Content
Project Standards
- Layer Standards and Overrides
- Display Control Basics
- Changing Object Display Properties
- Setting Up New Display Controls
