CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS
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Drawing & Blueprint Reading
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Basic Commercial Blueprint Reading
Type of Class: Short Term
10 Sessions/30 Hours
Prerequisite: None required.
This course is designed for office, field and professional support staff. Topics include: Evolution of the Construction Project (The Development of the Drawings & Specifications); Background Principles (Cracking the Code); Drawing Types Used in All Categories Drawings; Reading Drawings for Information; Overview of Architectural MEP Drawings and Specifications.
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Electrical Blueprint Reading
Type of Class: Semester
12 Sessions/48 Hours
Prerequisite: None Required.
Blueprint reading covering the theory of projection, architectural and engineering symbols, relationship of views, and measuring with architectural and engineering scales as they relate to the electrical construction industry.
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Intermediate Building Systems Design Using AutoCAD
Type of Class: Short Term
16 Sessions/40 Hours
This course provides Autocad users a continued understanding of Autocad’s features and limitations. Upon completion of this course
students will be able to create advanced 2D and 3D Autocad drawings using advanced drafting techniques; layers, dimensioning, 3D modeling, rendering and plotting. Students will learn intermediate skills in addition to more advanced techniques for drawing setup and productivity which is crucial for today’s Autocad users in the construction industry.
Course: Introduction to Building Systems Using AutoCAD
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Type of Class: Short Term
6 Sessions/18 Hours
This course is designed to introduce new users to the core features of Bluebeam Revu. You will learn the foundational skills necessary to organize, markup, edit and track comments in a PDF drawing set. Use Revu’s measurement tools for takeoffs and estimates. Learn how to calibrate your drawing set, conduct a visual search and apply count measurements. Streamline your estimating workflow by creating custom columns to calculate material and labor costs and generate summary reports to distribute data to key project team members.
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Introduction to Building Systems Using AutoCAD
Type of Class: Short Term
14 Sessions/40 Hours
This course is essential for all new AutoCAD users or as an excellent class for end users of other CAD systems who are migrating to AutoCAD. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create basic 2D drawings using the drawing and editing tools, organize drawing objects on layers, add text and basic dimensions, and prepare to plot the drawings. Students will learn essential skills in addition to more sophisticated techniques for drawing setup and productivity which is crucial for today’s Autocad users in the construction industry.
Skill Assessment: Computer Keyboard and Windows
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