AutoCAD - Intermediate

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Course Dates

• Monday, 16 November 2026 (09:00 - 16:00)
• Tuesday, 17 November 2026 (09:00 - 16:00)
• Wednesday, 18 November 2026 (09:00 - 16:00)

What's Involved?

AutoCAD - Intermediate is a comprehensive 3-day training programme that will teach you advanced techniques in AutoCAD. This is a practical course that will help you create professional 2D CAD drawings for production, technical drawings, and architectural plans.

This course is suitable for architecture, engineering, and construction businesses of any size looking to improve their drafting, design quality, and lead times with advanced AutoCAD skills. Individuals who have completed the AutoCAD - Beginners course or have equivalent experience with AutoCAD and would like to take their skills to the next level are recommended to take this course.

Course Content

• Apply advanced drawing techniques, including working with splines, creating advanced polylines, and isometric drawings.
• Create and work with tables and table styles, including importing from and exporting to tables.
• Work with reusable content, including advanced tool palettes and DesignCenter.
• Use macros for customisation and customise the user interface.
• Use system variables and create dynamic blocks with actions, parameters, and multiple shapes.
• Create parametric objects and use structural constraints, AutoConstrain, and formulae.
• Create and edit attributes, including user-defined and field-driven attributes, text fields, and data extraction.
• Work with external references (Xrefs) and raster images, overlay vs attachment, and team collaboration using eTransmit for distribution.
• Use draw order and User Coordinate Systems (UCS) with the World Coordinate System (WCS), custom UCS, and multiple UCS.
• Import PDF files and control the PDF display and import PDF as an AutoCAD drawing.
• Apply advanced dimension styles, including dimension sub styles, using the dimension tool, and dimension tolerancing.
• Use multileader styles, wipeouts, and revision clouds, and understand annotative behaviour for text, dimensions, leaders, blocks, and hatching.
• Apply advanced use of layer groups and filters, including creating a group filter and layer visibility within a viewport.
• Apply advanced layouts and paper space techniques, including advanced creation techniques, viewport manipulation, custom viewport scales, and named views.
• Control line weight with object line weight, layer line weight, and colour line weight (CTB files).
• Apply advanced plotting and exporting techniques, including sheet sets, batch plotting, and exporting DWF and DWFX files.
• Work efficiently by purging unnecessary items.

Course System Requirements

Please note: Computers that operate below the following specification will not be able to run the software efficiently and it will severely impact your learning experience.

Operating System: 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11 and Windows 10. See Autodesk’s Product Support Lifecycle for support information.

Processor: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor, (Recommended 3+ GHz processor)

Memory: 8 GB (Recommended: 16 GB)

Display Resolution: Conventional Displays (1920 x 1080 with True Colour) or High Resolution & 4K Displays (Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 supported on Windows 10 (with capable display card))

Display Card: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant (Recommended 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 12 compliant)

Disk Space: 10.0 GB

Network: See Autodesk Network License Manager for Windows

Pointing Device: MS-Mouse compliant NET Framework: .NET Framework version 4.8 or later