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5 May 2013
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InfiniteSkills Release Learning Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Tutorial Builds CAD Skills from the Ground Up
Technology training firm InfiniteSkills Inc. last week released Learning AutoCAD 2014 Tutorial, an introductory course designed to introduce basic drawing and editing skills with the industry standard computer assisted design program.
AutoCAD 2014 is the 28th release of AutoCAD, and while many basic features remain consistent from year to year, the new version offers several updates and new features that can be both helpful and challenging for new users.
InfiniteSkills' Learning AutoCAD 2014 Training - DVD provides students and professionals a crash-course in the latest AutoCAD version. Complete with a section dedicated to new features like Design Feed, which provides greater capabilities for collaboration, and enhanced cloud integration, the course is designed to gradually build a basic skill set, and put those skills to use in a final AutoCAD design project.
Course author Brian Benton is an engineering technician, CAD Service Provider, technical writer and AutoCAD instructor. He has 19 years' experience using AutoCAD in various design fields, and has also served in various leadership roles for the AutoDesk newsletter HotNews, as well as in development for AutoDesk.
"The most challenging thing about learning AutoCAD," Benton says, "is the sheer amount of things to learn. So what I did was think very carefully about the most important tools for beginners, and how I could design the course to implement as many tools as possible."
Benton is careful to point out that knowing AutoCAD tools is only part of using AutoCAD efficiently. "I designed the course not only to teach what each command does, but to make sure to demonstrate how to actually use commands in real life situations."
After getting up to speed on AutoCAD basics, students learn how to draw in AutoCAD, picking up fundamentals and learning time-saving techniques employed by veteran users.
The InfiniteSkills' Learning AutoCAD 2013 Video training course is organized around the construction of a movie theater. As the course progresses, students build sections of the overall design, learning new techniques such as working in the coordinate system, working with dimensions and measurement units, drawing with geometric shapes and polylines, and placing objects and object arrays like the seats in the movie theater.
Additional features include working with blocks, applying text fields to a drawing, printing features, and much more.
Free demo videos and a full list of course contents can be found on the Learning AutoCAD 2014 training page of the InfiniteSkills website:
http://www.infiniteskills.com/training/learning-autodesk-autocad-2014.html
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