Computer Aided Design (CAD) -Built Environment -Short course
Why choose this course?
• This course will provide you with a vocationally relevant 2D CAD training, specifically tailored to the professional requirements in the built environment.
• You will learn how to prepare, modify and enhance drawing documentation using AutoCAD 2008 software as the principal platform.
• You will gain knowledge and skills that could bring immediate benefits to your organisation in terms of improved productivity and efficiency related to the drawing production, exchange and communication.
Who is the course for?
This course is aimed at architectural, construction and built environment professionals in general that need to learn or update their CAD knowledge and skills. It is designed for the AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT user who requires comprehensive training specifically tailored to this industry. It incorporates the features, commands and techniques for creating, editing and printing drawings using AutoCAD 2008, with practical hands-on exercises throughout the course, complemented with extensive online tutorial support.
Benefits to your organisation
The course will provide you with a vocationally relevant learning experience in the field of computer aided design and drafting. What you’ll learn is specifically tailored to the professional requirements in the fields of architecture and construction, so we know that you will be learning skills that employers in this field really value. You will benefit from our tutor’s expertise, who has a proven track record of successful consultancy and short courses carried out for industry.
The course will give you an excellent CAD training to a recognised level that will enhance your career development within industry and could bring immediate benefits to your organisation in terms of improved productivity and efficiency related to the drawing production, exchange and communication.
When will the course run?
This intensive five day course is scheduled to run in December 2007 and will be repeated in January 2008. If you aready have basic knowledge of the AutoCAD, you could join us on the intermediate and advanced part of the course (see About the Course section) and thus complete the course in three days. Similar, if you are already at the intermediate level and wish to study only advanced part of the course, you will be able to complete the course in two days. Check our website for details or contact us directly (for contact details see end of the brochure). The course is expected to become a regular event, and there is a possibility of negotiating alternative modes of study (i.e. multiple evening sessions, weekend sessions, delivered in work place), designed to meet your specific requirements.
Course Fees
Short course costs are £300. However, this course is funded by European Social Fund (ESF) for ESF Objective 3 areas*, and if your company qualifies as an SME your course fees will be sponsored by this fund. Please contact us for further details.
Learn Through Work University Certificate in CAD (Architecture) is £498 and University Diploma in CAD (Architecture) is £996.
*Objective 3 areas cover the whole of Great Britain with the exception of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, South Yorkshire, Merseyside, West Wales and the Valleys.
About the course
The course is divided in three broad levels of progression, starting with the basic concepts and developing towards intermediate and advanced features, such as cad protocols and improving efficiency related to the drawing production, exchange and communication.
AutoCAD Basic Concepts - Level I
Major topics include the AutoCAD operating system, menu structure and commands, accurate drawing setup techniques, geometry creation, manipulation and editing functions. Layering, display, enquiry, annotation, text and hatching, dimensioning techniques and system variables, template creation. Topics are presented with hands-on exercises aimed to develop a level of comfort and confidence with AutoCAD.
Intermediate AutoCAD - Level II
This level introduces the concept of cad productivity related to the built environment via use of dynamic blocks, external reference files (xref), entity filters, design center and printing and plotting methods/templates using paper space. Also included is an overview of new features and enhancements in AutoCAD 2008.
Hands on accompanying exercises are designed to further develop your skills and gain knowledge of how to increase your drawing productivity.
Advanced AutoCAD - Level III
This level extends the knowledge and skills gained in Level II and covers more advanced productivity techniques, such as creating efficient cad protocols based on the external reference system (xrefs), networking, layer management and best practices, customisation, drawing security, publishing, markups for design changes, tool palette enhancements, introduction to 3D CAD. Also included are set of exercises using Photoshop to enhance the AutoCAD drawings.
Beside the direct contact time with your tutor, you will be provided with downloadable teaching support material and an extensive online support.
Certificate of attendance
When you've completed the course you will gain a Certificate of Attendance, towards your CPD profile. This course has also been specially designed to contribute towards future learning. You can gain transferable HE credits towards an Honours degree or Foundation degree, if you choose to continue your studies with the University.
After the course you might wish to advance your CAD knowledge and skills further. If so, you can choose to study for a University Certificate of Achievement in CAD (Architecture) - (30 Level 4/5 CATS points), University Diploma (60 Level 4/5 CATS points) or a University Advanced Diploma (60 Level 5/6 CATS points). This can be achieved via combination of additional taught and workplace learning though our Learning Through Work scheme. Please ask for the course brochure or visit http://www.derby.ac.uk/computer-aided-design-cad-architecture-university-diploma-learning-through-work
Contact:
Dr Boris Ceranic
t: 01332 593136
e: b.ceranic@derby.ac.uk
or Mike Briggs
e: m.briggs@derby.ac.uk
t: 01332 593216
