Advanced AutoCAD

About this course

Many young engineers can use AutoCAD yet draft slowly and inconsistently. The problem is rarely a missing command; it is the lack of a standard drafting environment, of smart command combinations, and of a clear production workflow. This advanced course targets exactly those bottlenecks.

Built by practising instructors at the RDSIC training centre of the Institute of Information Technology in Civil Engineering — Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (HUCE), the programme pursues four goals: draw correctly, fast, cleanly and intelligently. It moves from a standards-based setup through Xref and layouts to a real structural shop drawing package.

What you will learn

• Build a complete drafting environment to TCVN 6084:2012: text, layer, dimension and hatch standards.
• Present text, dimensions, notes and line types to technical drawing conventions.
• Coordinate team drawings with external references (Xref).
• Lay out multi-scale sheets and plot full drawing sets confidently.
• Multiply drafting speed with command aliases, Express Tools and the supplied Lisp utilities.
• Produce beam and slab reinforcement shop drawings following a construction documentation workflow.

Who should enrol

• AutoCAD users who know the basics and want speed and drawing quality.
• Final-year students heading into graduation projects or design internships.
• Design and site engineers producing construction drawings.
• Company teams standardising CAD practices for collaboration.

Detailed syllabus

1. Setting up drafting environments

• Drawing presentation rules under TCVN 6084:2012
• Building the environment: text styles, layers, dimension styles, hatches
• Advanced choices in the Options and drafting settings dialogs
• A quick review of core drawing commands
• Introducing Express Tools

2. Xref and layouts

• Using external references and their pitfalls
• Applying Xref to drawing production and multi-user projects
• Multi-scale presentation in Layout
• Plot setup and quick plotting

3. AutoCAD productivity tricks

• A supplied Lisp library with usage guidance
• Installing specialist fonts and hatch patterns
• Ready-made detail libraries for faster drafting

4. Real shop drawings

• The workflow behind a shop drawing package
• Hands-on beam and slab reinforcement shop drawings

Learning format

Eight in-person evening sessions in Hanoi, with periodic intakes in Ho Chi Minh City. You practise continuously on exercises taken from real structural documents — framing plans, rebar arrangement, lintels and water tanks — with direct feedback on your own files.

Class photos and videos

Certificate of completion

Course graduates receive a certificate from the Institute of Information Technology in Civil Engineering — Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (HUCE). Call 0989 427 809 to find the right class for your level.

Promotions and discounts

Group tuition discount — applied to every group member and the group leader:

Note: this discount cannot be combined with any other promotion.

Discounts for taking multiple courses at RDSIC

• Take two courses in parallel and get 10% off the tuition of each course.
• Your second course at RDSIC is 10% off.

Deferral policy

• In-person courses: deferral of up to one year from the date the centre confirms it.
• Online courses: no deferral; as an exception, students who have attended less than 50% of the course may be granted a deferral of up to one year.

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• AutoCAD for Coursework Drawings
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• Microsoft Project — Construction Project Management

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