CAD Intentions – AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows in a Hurry

AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows in a Hurry by CAD Intentions is a course designed for both beginner and experienced AutoCAD users looking to improve their drafting and design workflows.

AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows:

An AutoCAD Course for Designers/Drafters in a Hurry!

Last year, I sent out a survey to thousands of CAD Intentions subscribers, asking them a simple question.

What do you wish you knew about AUTOCAD?

100s of responses later and hours of compiling, researching, planning, and outlining, I’ve put together the course that I and you will wish you took when learning AutoCAD.

This isn’t the common basic/introduction to AutoCAD course, teaching how to draw a line or circle.

This course answers the questions every AutoCAD user has!

In it you will learn the fastest and most productive workflows from someone who has used CAd daily for almost 20 years.

You will learn the best way to set up a drawing

The Best workflows for project/drawing production

How to properly create Templates (Bonus Template Included)

Working with Xrefs

Creating Layouts/Viewports

Automating repetitive text/labels

Scaling and Annotative Text/Dimensions

What to do when you get stumped, or wish there was a better way.

You will learn must-have fundamentals, workflows, tips, and tricks that will help you with daily drafting/design and ensure you get to the next step in your AutoCAD career.

Whether you’ve been an AutoCAD user for 1 week or 5+ years you will benefit from the workflows, tips, and overall fundamentals showcased in the videos.

This course is packed full of years of combined experience along with practical and highly requested tutorials on everything from initial drawing setup, to pdf plotting and packaging files for final submissions or archiving.

What You’ll Learn In AutoCAD Fundamentals & Workflows in a Hurry?

• Project Organization and Setups – Tips and Examples of File/Folder Structures that will help keep your projects organized and easier to work on.
• Drawing Templates – How to set up a drawing template to maintain consistency and save time when starting new drawings/projects. What to include in templates, best practices, and how to make them to best benefit your projects.
• Standards – In addition to setting up a drawing template we will also look at what types of styles, layers, settings you’ll want to incorporate into your templates and general drafting workflows/standards.
• Drawing Production Workflow – A walkthrough of creating a drawing from scratch to finished PDF/Plot. Including starting a new drawing from our template, basic drawing production (This course will assume you know the very basics of how to draw in AutoCAD, but we will touch on some of the basics in the process of creating our general drawings), drawing at 1:1 scale, Working with and adding Annotative text, dimensions, and callouts.
• Layout Creation – How to quickly set up layout sheets. Methods for creating multiple viewports and sheets. Setting scales and Tips for professional drawing production.
• Automation using Fields – how to build out your title blocks/templates with fields to speed up drawing production and eliminate potential mistakes.
• Plotting/Print workflows – How to plot individual sheets as well as using Publish options to print multiple layouts in either one or many different drawing files!
• Final Drawing Tips – How to archive files & setting up eTransmit standards for archival, packaging, and exporting drawings to send to clients, and more!
• And More….

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