Autocad Training Program

AutoCAD is a 2-D and 3-D computer-aided drafting software application used in architecture, construction, and manufacturing to assist in the preparation of blueprints and other engineering plans. Professionals who use AutoCAD are often referred to as drafters.

Training Programs

Training in AutoCAD software and computer-aided drafting can be found at technical and community colleges, including certificate or associate degree programs in AutoCAD, drafting, or engineering technology. Most of these programs feature courses that focus on the hands-on use of the AutoCAD software package. Some programs may even prepare students for AutoCAD industry certification.

Bachelor's degree programs in related fields, such as engineering, may also require students to take AutoCAD courses. 

Career Information

While drafters work in a number of specialties, the five most common specialization areas are as follows: mechanical, architectural, civil, electrical, and electronics.

• Mechanical drafters prepare plans for machinery and mechanical devices.
• Architectural drafters draw up plans for residential and commercial buildings.
• Civil drafters draw up plans for use in the design and building of roadways, bridges, sewer systems, and other major projects.
• Electrical drafters work with electricians to prepare diagrams of wiring electrical system layouts.
• Electronics drafters also prepare wiring diagrams for use in the making, installing, and repairing of electronic gadgets.

Feature of AutoCAD

You can create fine drawings with hundreds of colors, line types, hatch patterns, presentation symbols and text styles. Even if you don’t like something about your presentation after you have finished it, you can quickly change it. It takes only a few simple steps to change the text style, color or line type and you can print a fresh copy of the drawing.

There are a number of ready-made presentation symbols and hatch

Patterns available in CADD that can be used to enhance the look of drawings. For example, a site planner can add tree symbols, shrubs, pathways, human figures, and other landscape elements to create a site plan. Similarly, an architect can use ready-made symbols of doors, windows, furniture, etc., to make a presentation.

In addition to preparing impressive presentations on paper, you can use CADD to make on- screen presentations. You can plug your computer into a projector and present your ideas on-   screen. Advanced CADD programs even allow you to create animated images. You can   illustrate how a building would appear while walking through it, or how a machine would function when different machine assembly parts operate.

CADD provides the flexibility to make quick alterations to drawings. You can erase any portion 

of a drawing with pinpoint accuracy. It takes only seconds to do a job that could take hours on a drawing board. In many cases, you won’t even have to erase the drawing to make the change.  You can rearrange the existing components of the drawing to fit new shape. This enables you to analyze design options with minimal effort.

The following are some of the editing capabilities of CADD:

 · Move or copy drawing elements

 · Enlarge or reduce parts of a drawing

 · Add one drawing to another

 · Stretch a drawing to fit new dimensions

 . Make multiple copies of a drawing element

 · Change the size and style of text

 · Change units of measure, accuracy and style of dimensions.