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Advanced 2010 AutoCAD Tutorial – Training Video

September 30, 2009

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Advanced AutoCAD 2010 Training Video. Narrated by a leading CAD expert, this video based training CD covers AutoCAD 2010 in a practical and easy to follow format that’s ideal for users who need to further their AutoCAD skills. Work files accompany the course.

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Advanced Concepts AutoCAD 2010 Training Video

This multi-part Advanced AutoCAD 2010 Training Video has been designed to help experienced users improve their skills and come to terms with the functionality that the newest release of the software has to offer. Developed around a series of hands-on examples, the course uses a practical, narrated video format that speeds up the learning process while allowing you to set your own schedule. By organizing the training into short, subject-focused lessons, the tutorial lets you easily split your learning into just a few minutes per day or hours at a time.
The instruction itself is produced to a remarkably high standard. Developed by longtime CAD expert and Autodesk Approved Instructor Shaun Bryant (AAI), the tips and tricks included throughout the course are presented within the confines of a professional workflow. You quickly begin to see how flexible AutoCAD 2010 can be, with a range of new features including 3D free-from design tools for modeling purposes as well as a new focus on customization that lets you specialize the program to your needs.
This advanced training places an emphasis on communication. No one develops within a bubble, and by learning how to effectively utilize annotation, tables, formatting and sharable templates and sheet sets, getting usable drafts of your ideas and designs distributed across a team of engineers or a list of clients has never been so easy.
The training video itself is available online as part of a subscriber-based service or as a hardcopy resource on CD / DVD. Both Mac and Windows compatible, you can watch lessons at your workstation or on a laptop while you’re on the road.

Customize and Specialize for Different Types of Use

While the user interface enhancements in AutoCAD 2010 are arguably less dramatic than the changes introduced to the software with version 2009, there are a number of default improvements and tweaks that make it easier to get common tasks done. What is more remarkable, though, apart from the default workspace is the full fledged ability to transform your tools into a custom environment suited to your specific line of work.
In addition to letting you select from comprehensive workflow options during the software’s initial setup, Autodesk allows users access to a powerful scripting language that lets you automate repetitive and tedious tasks. With access to databases, graphics hardware and software and core commands, savvy users now have access to what is essentially a new development platform, with the ability to share scripts with other AutoCAD users.
As always, AutoCAD’s prominent position within the professional software market means there are many plugins that extend functionality. Downloads from Autodesk software partners are available in a number of languages to help you work more efficiently than ever before.
In order to take full advantage of AutoCAD’s extensibility, it’s important to have the right training. As the third installment of a three part tutorial series, this AutoCAD 2010 Advanced Concepts Training Video offers an intuitive way to learn the software inside and out.

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Inter AutoCAD 2010 Tutorial Video – Training CD

August 4, 2009

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Ideal AutoCAD 2010 Training Video. Narrated by a leading CAD expert, this video based training CD covers AutoCAD 2010 in a practical and easy to follow format, Work files accompany the course.

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AutoCAD 2010 Intermediate Training Video

Knowing how to use AutoCAD is an essential skill in many lines of work. This engaging Intermediate 2010 AutoCAD Tutorial Video – Training CD – DVD takes those who have a basic command of the program and shows them how to master common challenges and techniques that let them get to the next level of complexity and efficiency in their communication and designs.
By skipping the fundamentals and dealing exclusively with a higher level of tasks, the CAD training video lets you focus on what you need to know to advance your skills. AutoCAD 2010 has so many usable features and tools that no single course could adequately address its complexity from top to bottom. By dividing subjects in order of difficulty across more than one title, users are free to learn AutoCAD at their own pace without feeling distracted or overwhelmed by information they are not ready for or simply do not need. CAD expert Shaun Bryant narrates this intermediate level course, starting right where previous lessons left off and showing you how to get to new levels of productivity from AutoCAD software.
The tutorial is first and foremost convenient. Because of the complexity of AutoCAD, it’s a mainstay at training seminars and expensive consulting packages; this tutorial video gives you the same level of instruction in a format that lets you learn at your own pace. Accessible online or as a AutoCAD CD / DVD training package, you can spend hours in a row with the material or fit it into a few extra minutes of your day. Best of all, you can pause, rewind and repeat sections as you need to.

High End Improvements for High End Users

AutoCAD 2010 brings many changes to enhance the basic user experience. A streamlined interface and the simplification of many dialogs improves efficiency right from the start, but instead of sticking with just surface improvements, Autodesk engineers have also introduced new capabilities for more advanced AutoCAD users:
Better 3D Support – This is one that many people have been waiting for. Taking a cue from 3D modeling and animation tools, users can now create free-form 3D objects within AutoCAD that have complex mesh-based surfaces. 3D tools have been rethought to work more like familiar 2D design commands, and you can rotate, scale and stretch whole organic models in real time.
Advanced Automation – New to AutoCAD 2010 is also the Action recorder to essentially create your own macros without the aid of a CAD manager. This lets seasoned users recreate the most repetitive and time-consuming tasks with just a few clicks. It’s a power user feature long overdue.
Presentation Upgrades – One handy feature for those looking for perfect presentation is the ShowMotion technology, which gives you camera animation features when putting together digital walkthroughs of your design. Support for PDFs, importing and exporting natively, of course, is the game-changing presentation upgrade that effects all users.
The AutoCAD 2010 Intermediate Training Video covers a lot more than just new and useful features. It shows you how to use the whole program to get consistently better results. See what you can learn with the free demos on the product site.
More information can be found on the AutoCAD 2010 Tutorial Blog

AutoCAD 2010 Training CD – Tutorial Video

July 6, 2009

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Ideal Beginners AutoCAD 2010 tutorial video. Narrated by a leading AutoCAD expert, this video based training CD covers AutoCAD 2010 in a practical and easy to follow format.

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AutoCAD 2010: Mastering 2D Concepts Training Video

This just in: a solid new AutoCAD 2010 Mastering 2D Concepts Training Video that you can watch online or buy on CD / DVD. Taught by Autodesk Approved Instructor (AAI) Shaun Bryant, it covers many of the new features included in the latest version but dedicates the bulk of the course to showing users how to use the software to master basic drawing, plotting and editing within the program interface. As every serious CAD project starts with drawing, this course is a smart, hands-on way to jump into the software.
While it’s extremely helpful for a beginner, the training incorporates the same modular approach that has been proven to work well in the past. Videos are split up by specific subjects, so more experienced users can skip around and review lessons in any order they want.

AutoCAD 2010: Better Work Through Better Communication

While it’s a well known workhorse for designers working one on one with their projects, AutoCAD has traditionally not performed as well as it should when it comes to collaboration. Finally, new features show that Autodesk engineers are taking steps in the right direction, helping users share drafts of their designs and receive feedback in new ways.

PDF Integration

One major item on wishlists for some time has been solid PDF support directly within AutoCAD. Finally, the calls have been answered. Export menus allow a variety of quality settings and advanced options, with the ability to export true-type fonts as text instead of graphics and image quality up to 600dpi for extremely precise renderings.
The new PDF support doesn’t stop at exporting, either. Users can now import PDF designs sent by others, with adjustments to show and hide layers and adjust the PDF layer transparency so that plans can be overlaid for tracing and comparison. Finally, it’s easy for users to share their diagrams and drafts in a compact and widely accessible file format.

DWG Format

The longstanding DWG file format has been updated to resolve common complaints and expand its range of capabilities. AutoCAD 2010 is fully backwards compatible, though, and can open older DWGs without a hitch. The format is practically an industry-recognized standard in and of itself, as it allows extremely complex creations to retain necessary information between different users and versions.

Advanced Rendering

Photorealistic imaging and effects means that what you design appears onscreen exactly as it will look once it reaches production. New and improved rendering technology allows clients and colleagues to see your ideas as they are meant to be seen and allows you to become more creative and effective in managing your own expectations.

With new access to collaborative possibilities, it’s all the more important that you understand the way AutoCAD works. The ability to easily share ideas and content with multiple people means it’s important that your project looks the way you want it to before you send it out, and this extensive 2D-focused training can give you the instruction you need to get your skills where they need to be.

View more information on the AutoCAD 2010 Tutorial Blog.


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