AutoCAD Advanced

Customising and managing AutoCAD to suit your particular design application is a great way to increase your productivity. This course teaches simple but powerful customisation techniques and advanced AutoCAD tools. Draw and design faster and with less effort by learning how to customise AutoCAD’s user interface and reduce the number of steps required to perform routine tasks. Save time, work smarter – learn these advanced skills on our 3-day AutoCAD Advanced course.

Course content for AutoCAD Advanced:

• Eliminate the frustration and confusion in getting the proper scale factors in viewports
• Extract information from your drawing and display it in a table
• Use the new Drawing Compare command to highlight different versions of the same drawing
• Connect directly to the Autodesk cloud using A360 for online storage, viewing and sharing
• Publish views of your drawings while protecting your drawing files
• Understand the power of AutoCAD’s layer properties manager
• Filter layers and control their status in each view independently
• Save a specific configuration of layers and restore it using layer states
• Configure your drawing standards and check drawings for compliance
• Automate the process of converting layers from drawings from other sources to match yours
• Set up plotters and plot styles so drawings print correctly every time
• Understand AutoCAD’s most important system variables
• Learn the utilities that help you maintain and manage your drawings
• Streamline repetitive tasks
• Protect your drawings by limiting options for those who are less experienced
• Create workspaces for different situations to maximise productivity
• Modify the AutoCAD ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar 
• Modify the action of specific mouse buttons and keyboard keys
• Create macros and custom routines to combine commands and automate repetitive tasks
• Load AutoLISP, VBA or vb.net routines for extra functionality