Autodesk training for plant engineering and design

• Project Manager and workspaces
• Symbols: equipment, lines, valves
• Tagging and annotation
• Creating and modifying routes
• Data Manager, Excel export/import

Prerequisite: AutoCAD 2D course

• Installation, licensing, network
• Class definitions, symbol library
• Numbering AKZ/KKS
• Automating annotation
• Templates with layout and title block
• Reports and lists

Prerequisite: P&ID application

• 3D interface and navigation
• UCS/WCS and views
• Creating and modifying solids
• Sections, point clouds, analysis
• Associative projections

Prerequisite: good AutoCAD 2D skills

• Fundamentals and user interface
• Display of AEC objects and the role of materials
• Creating and working with AEC objects (walls, windows, doors, roofs, etc.)
• Organizing styles and AEC objects
• Sections and views
• Dimensioning and annotation

Prerequisite: basic AutoCAD knowledge (layers, layouts, annotation, external references)

• Interface, templates, coordinates
• Drafting aids and object snaps
• Layers and object properties
• Dimensioning, annotation, hatching
• Blocks and external references
• Plotting from the layout

Prerequisite: general PC skills

• Introduction to the user interface
• Command line, ribbon, mouse and keyboard control
• Drawing templates and project start
• Basic drawing and editing functions
• Lines, circles, arcs, rectangles, polylines
• Move, rotate, mirror, scale, stretch

Prerequisite: no special knowledge required

• Raster image correlation: rubber sheeting, cropping & georeferencing
• Changing color depth and density
• Interactive & automatic cleanup, retouching and removal of speckles/areas
• Merging multiple raster images
• Interactive vectorization of lines and contours
• Text recognition and vectorization of text areas

Prerequisite: basic knowledge of AutoCAD

• Architecture user interface
• Tool palettes
• Catalog Browser
• Architecture Project Browser
• Direct editing
• Materials

Prerequisite: participation in the AutoCAD Architecture Fundamentals training or equivalent knowledge

• Content on request

Prerequisite: no special knowledge required

• Navigation and user interface
• Processing scans and creating a piping model
• Checking and quality assurance (RMSE, coverage)
• Editing and connecting pipes, fittings
• Finalizing runs, assigning Revit families
• Placing accessories, export

Prerequisite: basic knowledge of AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit or BIM

• Interface and file formats
• Viewer, measuring and redlining functions
• Searching and grouping
• Clash Detective
• TimeLiner (4D)

Prerequisite: experience with a 3D program

• Interface and setup
• Navigating the point cloud
• Editing tools
• Export for Revit, Civil 3D, Navisworks

Prerequisite: general PC skills

• Design Collaboration
• Tasks and functions of Design Collaboration
• Group and team member management
• Publishing datasets, reviewing and approving design stages
• Creating, publishing and including packages
• Change management

Prerequisite: up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)

• Fundamentals and user interface
• Creating a project and activating services
• License assignment and project member management
• Assigning companies and roles
• Setting up the file structure and assigning folder permissions
• Version management and viewer functions

Prerequisite: up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge)

• Setting up AutoCAD & Inventor for the factory workflow
• Synchronization and layout linking
• Layout of a new production line in an existing factory
• Using Factory assets & creating favorites
• 2D/3D building modeling in AutoCAD Architecture

Prerequisite: experience with Windows

• Methods in mechanical engineering
• Material fundamentals
• Analysis options in Inventor
• Areas of application
• Differences from Inventor Nastran & other FEM packages
• Limits

Prerequisite: solid basic Inventor knowledge of part and assembly design

• User interface & setup
• Basic setup of the work environment
• Building 2D sketches that remain stable under changes
• 3D part modeling
• Main-plane-oriented modeling
• Parameterizing models

Prerequisite: general PC and Windows skills

• Procedure
• Materials
• Inventor tools
• Areas of application
• Differences
• Limits

Prerequisite: solid basic Inventor knowledge of part and assembly design

• Introduction to the sheet metal environment
• Differences from standard modeling
• Face & flange
• Contour flange
• Bending, folding and notching
• Lofted flange

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Introduction to the Cable & Harness module
• Creating wires and segments
• Using automatic routing
• Placing and editing ribbon cables
• Clash detection and correction
• Routing complex cable paths

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• FEM fundamentals in Inventor
• Comparison with analytical methods
• Material assignment and boundary conditions
• Load types and contacts
• Meshing and mesh quality
• Evaluating stresses and deformations

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Content Center fundamentals
• Administration and configuration
• Creating your own standard parts databases
• Editing existing standard parts
• Adding dimensions and properties
• Automatic generation of item numbers

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Introduction to the concept of multi-body parts
• Advantages over classic assemblies
• Modeling a multi-body model
• Using derived components
• Creating layout components
• Combining, splitting and joining solid bodies

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Introduction to the presentation module
• Working with .ipn files
• Creating and editing snapshot views
• Camera animations
• Using storyboards
• Managing multiple scenes

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Introduction to the Tube & Pipe add-in
• Activating and configuring the module
• Route styles, rules and components
• Creating rigid and flexible routes
• Working with 3D sketches
• Manual and automatic routing

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Introduction to iLogic and its applications
• Creating an iLogic part
• Rules with "If – Then – Else"
• Working with parameters (Boolean, numeric, text)
• Conditional feature control
• Multi-value text parameters

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• What are iParts and iAssemblies?
• Differences from rule-based models (iLogic)
• The maximum model concept
• Modeling a standard part
• Creating the iPart table and defining parameters
• Material variants and key columns

Prerequisite: confident use of Autodesk Inventor

• Options in mechanical engineering
• Material fundamentals
• Inventor tools (Dynamic Simulation, FEM)
• Areas of application, limits, workflow
• Preparing the assembly

Prerequisite: solid basic knowledge of Inventor assemblies and assembly constraints

• New interface in the current version
• Overview of the changed menu navigation and ribbon
• Personalization and shortcuts
• New and enhanced tools
• Introduction to new design and checking functions
• Improved performance tools

Prerequisite: completed Autodesk Inventor Fundamentals training or comparable experience

• Special features of the program – differences from AutoCAD and an explanation of the interface
• Drawing setup, data preparation (e.g. drawing cleanup) and working with coordinate systems
• Integrating CAD drawings, base data, specialist data, databases, SHP, SDF, SQLite, WMS and WFS services, raster data
• Creating and capturing data, editing and modifying GIS datasets and topologies
• Data analysis and querying attribute and geometry data
• Thematic mapping using styles and display models

Prerequisite: basic AutoCAD knowledge

• Content on request

Prerequisite: basic AutoCAD knowledge

• InfraWorks – new approaches to infrastructure planning
• Interface: explanation and setup
• Navigation and view control
• Model creation and scenario setup
• Importing and visualizing planning-relevant data
• Model export options (video, 3D model, cloud)

Prerequisite: general PC skills