The AutoCAD® PowerTrack is a series of “master classes” geared toward intermediate and advanced AutoCAD users. You can attend all AutoCAD PowerTrack sessions or design your own curriculum.

These classes are ideal for users who want to learn about expert techniques or pick up different approaches to solving problems. With 13 classes totaling 19.5 hours of lectures covering the key aspects of optimizing design processes, you can maximize your skills in the following areas:

Model, Mesh, Render – Creating, Modifying and Visualizing Geometry for the Real World

AutoCAD’s 3D design tools have improved dramatically over recent years for building basic 3D shapes to complex visual models. These sessions are specifically tailored to take you though 3D creation, editing, viewing, and rendering techniques, all with a progressive approach that addresses the most common problems while providing challenging insights.

This track is designed for experienced 2D AutoCAD drafters, designers, architects, and engineers who are considering moving to 3D or are currently moving to 3D. We will examine modeling architectural, mechanical, and civil uses for providing proven successful methods in bringing your designs into a whole new world.

Finally, we also recommend this track for those who thought AutoCAD 3D was not the right solution.

Creating Intelligent Drawings, Documentation, and Customization

There is more to creating geometry with lines, arcs and circles and annotation with text. Adding geometric and dimensional constraints to geometry and Blocks allows AutoCAD geometry to have true parametric relations. If you are new to the concept of parametric drawings, you’ll be surprised at how modifying a single object will drive a chain of automatic geometry updates, saving you hours in the editing process.

Documentation of drawings by adding intelligent text with Fields inside Tables, Blocks, Mtext and other textual objects will save you valuable time in repetitive text editing and updating. This is especially true when using Microsoft Excel with AutoCAD to create critical integration paths.

You can reduce repetitive tasks with simple Action Recordings and scripts: powerful, intuitive and underutilized methods of customizing AutoCAD, without learning the cumbersome syntax of other programming tools.

This track is designed and recommended for experienced 2D AutoCAD drafters, designers, architects, engineers and CAD managers who want to utilize the intelligence of constraints to create parametric drawings, fields instead of text, and customization using macros and scripts within their company's design processes.

Managing Content Standards

Since the early days of AutoCAD, users and companies have struggled with maintaining standards and managing their block libraries. Now with parametric Dynamic Blocks and Tool Palettes, there is a greater level of power and control along with an entirely new approach for creating, editing, and managing Blocks and standards. The need for menu customization and the Explode command is eliminated forever.

These two classes are must-attends for all levels of experienced 2D AutoCAD drafters, designers, architects, engineers, and CAD managers who are using blocks and maintaining company and project standards for all types of geometry creation.