Technical School

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AutoCAD 2012

Course fee

Normal Price: R 12,316
(Payment in Full) Web Price: R 11,084 (save 10%)

Please Note:

The special Payment in Full Web Price listed above is only valid if you complete the enrolment form on the Damelin Correspondence website and choose one of the Payment in Full options available to you.

Your Payment in Full options are:

  • Credit Card (you can use your budget facility)
  • Internet Banking Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
  • Direct Deposit (at any FNB Bank Branch)
  • Cheque, Postal Order (delivered or posted to one of our branches) or Cash (paid at one of our branches)

The Payment Plan option on our website does not qualify you for our special Web Only Prices.

Certification

On successful completion of your Damelin Correspondence College assignments, you will receive a progress report. Once you have acquired the practical experience on the software package (recommended 100 hours) and successfully passed your assignments, you will be able to enrol for the Internationally accredited Autodesk exam. The recommended hours before attempting the exam is 400 hours of practical hands-on application. Please log onto http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ index?id=14238652&siteID=12311 to register for exam. Please note: your exam fees are not included in your tuition fee. Upon successful completion of your exam, you will receive your International certification from Autodesk.

 

Programme Type

AutoCAD® is an Agent Programme

Entrance Requirements

Grade 11 (Std. 9) with technical drawing or N2 with engineering drawing, or 2 years relevant work experience.

 

Computer Requirements

For 32-Bit AutoCAD® 2012

• Microsoft Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or

Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions); Microsoft®

Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home

Premium (SP2 or later) (compare Windows Vista versions); or

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3

or later)

• For Windows Vista or Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD

Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2

technology;

• For Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core

processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology

• 2 GB RAM

• 2 GB free disk space for installation

• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later

 

For 64-Bit AutoCAD® 2012

• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or

Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions); Microsoft

Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home

Premium (SP2 or later) (compare Windows Vista version or

Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)

• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron®

processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® processor with

Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4

with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology

• 2 GB RAM

• 2 GB free space for installation

• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color

• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

 

Additional Requirements for 3D Modeling

(All Configurations)

• Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3 GHz or greater;

or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater

• 2 GB RAM or more

• 2 GB hard disk space available in addition to free space

required for installation

• 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 128 MB or

greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Microsoft® Direct3D®-

capable workstation-class graphics card.

 

 

Programme Duration

You should be able to complete this course within 18 months 

Course Contents

 

. • Basic Drawing Skills.

• Using Drawing Aids.

• Editing Entities.

• Shaping Curves.

• Controlling Object Visibility and Appearance.

• Organizing Objects.

• Hatching and Gradients.

• Working with Blocks and Xrefs.

• Creating and Editing Text.

• Dimensioning.

• Keeping in Control with Constraints.

• Working with Layouts and Annotative Objects.

• Printing and Plotting.

• Storing, Presenting, and Extracting Data.

• Navigating 3D Models.

• Modeling in 3D.

• Presenting Your Design.

 

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