Check out our new 3D Rendering Course!

It is most exciting to see your design ideas unfold in 3D with photographic renderings that show your design ideas clearly. This video will walk you through all the levels of understanding so you can design in 3D.

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Who should take this course:

• All designers who want to use AutoCAD 2002 to 2006 efficiently.
• All designers who want to communicate in an exciting way.
• All self-taught users who want to advance their AutoCAD skills
• All designers who plan to use AutoCAD or 3rd Party add-on products:
  • MAP
  • Civil Survey
  • Architectural Desktop
  • Land Desktop

Pre-requisites:

• EKHO Institute AutoCAD Level 1 course or equal
• 1 to 6 Months of AutoCAD use after taking AutoCAD Level 1 is ideal for most users.
• Technical Design/Drawing Experience or Training
• Basic Math Comprehension.
• Reasonable Windows (NT4/95/98/2000/XP) skills. (EKHO's Windows for AutoCAD course)

Course Outline

• Why use 3D Surfaces vs. Solids
• Surfaces and Solids
• Creating surfaces
  • Lines, arcs and circles with thickness
  • 3D Faces
  • 3D Mesh
• Creating solids
  • Primitives
  • Extrude
  • Revolve
• Editing surfaces, solids
• Co-ordinate Systems, Editing Tools
  • World Co-ordinate System
  • UCSICON
  • UCS - how to set up efficiently
• Display Commands - dview, ddvpoint, plan, vpoint
• 3D Drawing and Editing Commands. Primitives
• Model Space/Paper Space
  • Editing viewports
  • Placing rendered images in a viewport
• 3D Rendering!  NEW and EXCITING module just completed Jan. 2006
• Class Exercise
  

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