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Becoming an AutoCAD® PowerUser

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  • Class ID: GD305-5
  • Class Information
  • Primary Track: AutoCAD
  • Primary Software: AutoCAD

Class Audience

Average AutoCAD user

Class Description

This course outlines 10 practical philosophies that lead to mastering AutoCAD. Gleaned from over 15 years of streamlining over 100 companies a year, this course offers new and exciting techniques to take basic AutoCAD beyond your wildest dreams. In past years, this class has showcased some of the cleverest insights, workarounds and techniques used in the country; and this year is no exception. Discover how to shrink your PDFs to a fraction of their original size, how to reverse polyline vertex sequences, how to add attributes to non-blocks, automate 20 steps with a single command, create complicated linetypes and hatch patterns out of anything you can draw in seconds, completely reorganize the drawing database, increase the speed of your AutoCAD session without spending an additional dime, accomplish regional layer control (learn to freeze an "area" of your drawing), and much more.

Class Highlights


  • How undocumented skills are acquired

  • How performance is optimized

  • How interoffice standards are overcome

  • How new capabilities in the software are achieved

  • How to optimize your production time

View all 4 questions Questions & Answers

  • Reply Francis Mugera asked...
    Hello Dave,I have heard about Autodesk,I have not used it but Iam proficient in AutoCAD. How can Autodesk Assist me in design of tipper,tank and flat bed semi trailers and bus bodies that I does every day at my job.Secondly how can learn how to use Autodesk in design?.Iam based at Nairobi in Kenya. Thanks 07-25-2009 3:54AM

  • Reply dave espinosa-aguilar replied...
    Francis, 'Autodesk' is not a software product like AutoCAD. Autodesk is the company that produces softwares like AutoCAD. You are on the autodesk.com company website (autodesk.com). If you are already proficient in the use of AutoCAD (an Autodesk-made software product), then you may already know how AutoCAD can assist you in the design of these vehicles. There are numerous AutoCAD forums such as the autodesk discussion forums, the Autodesk exchange forums, the AUGI.com forums, and other AutoCAD user forums where users can discuss with one another more effective and efficient uses of AutoCAD in their design processes. 07-25-2009 11:37AM

  • Reply John Power asked...
    I want to become a POWERUSER. Where do I start? 07-17-2009 3:18PM

  • Reply dave espinosa-aguilar replied...
    hi John. the course i taught last year (and the course i'll be teaching again this yearwith updated content) emphasizes several philosophies to become a poweruser of any application. i can't and won't re-teach this course over the internet, but i can recommend you download the course paper and read thru the notes for some ideas on where to start. 07-17-2009 3:34PM

  • Reply shameem shajahan asked...
    I want to konw more about polytracing. Can you tell me how that command is working. 03-21-2009 1:49AM

  • Reply dave espinosa-aguilar replied...
    hello shameem. polytracing is not a command. it is a technique using AutoCAD commands. i spent a fair amount of time in class teaching this technique and its applicability. i definitely don't want to teach it from scratch all over again in an email though. that's why we offered the class this year. 03-22-2009 10:16AM

  • Reply Janet Christen asked...
    Can you email the technique for polytracing? It's not in the handout and I missed it in class. 12-15-2008 2:51PM

  • Reply dave espinosa-aguilar replied...
    hi Janet :o) sorry for the delayed response... the email link i received took me to your question but not the answering facility so i had no way of getting back to you until today. polytracing is a very simple technique: make a block out of the linetype feature you want, then use MEASURE or DIVIDE using BLOCK mode to trace the block along a polyline. 12-16-2008 1:55PM

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