EMA Classroom Training for Autodesk Technologies

This five-day, basic course introduces students to the powerful 2D design capabilities of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. Exercises are performed by the student at the conclusion of all sections in order to reinforce the information being conveyed by the instructor. Most students are ready to hit the ground running after completing this comprehensive course. Topics covered in this course include:

• Drawing lines, polylines, rectangles, circles, and arcs
• Using erase, stretch, trim, fillet, copy, mirror, and many other useful tools
• Adding text, dimensions, and hatching
• Using layouts to create views of designs
• Plotting
• Working with grips
• Creating and editing blocks
• Template creation
• Advanced editing commands
• Coordinate entry
• Editing styles
• Working with external references

Tuition: $1,695

This one-day, intermediate course introduces students to the newest tools and features included in the most recent release of AutoCAD. All enhancements to existing tools as well as new functionality are covered in this comprehensive class. Topics covered in this course include:

The main topics covered in the course include:

• Application Menu
  
• Ribbon updates
  
• Quick Access Toolbar enhancements
  
• Command enhancements, including text, spline, and polyline
  
• Updates to dimension styles and multileader styles
  
• Hatching updates
  
• Measuring tools
  
• Working with geometric and dimensional constraints
  
• Adding constraints to dynamic blocks
  
• Navigation tools
  
• Using Autodesk Seek
• And much more!

Tuition: $395

This five-day intermediate course introduces students to the powerful electrical design capabilities of AutoCAD Electrical. During the class students learn how to use many of the powerful electrical drawing creation tools in the software, including creating schematic drawings (ladder logic and point to point), panel drawings, and PLC-I/O circuits using automated commands for symbol insertion, component tagging, wire numbering, and drawing modification. In addition, students are introduced to methods of customizing AutoCAD Electrical symbols, circuits, and databases. Topics covered in this course include:

• Inserting wires, ladders, components, panel footprints
• Creating parent-child relationships
• Choosing catalog items
• Creating custom catalog entries and custom schematic components
• Running audits
• Running and creating custom default reports
• Inserting 3-phase busses and components
• Creating point-to-point wiring diagrams
• Trimming wires
• Assigning wire layers
• And much more!

Tuition: $1,595

• The Autodesk Inventor interface
  
• Creating 2D sketches
  
• Constraining and dimensioning sketches
  
• Generating 3D parts from sketches
  
• Part modeling, adding and editing 3D features
  
• Work Features
  
• Creating equations
  
• Duplicating sketched geometry and features
  
• Understanding and controlling feature relationships
  
• Model information
  
• Customizing Inventor
  
• Placing and constraining parts in assemblies
  
• Assembly component display
  
• Presentation files (exploded views)
  
• Assembly tools
  
• Creating drawings and views
  
• Working with Projects
  
• Documenting parts and assemblies in drawings (views, detailing, annotations)
  
• Defining the assembly bill of materials
  

Tuition: $1,695

• Applying motion to existing assembly constraints using Drive Constraints or Motion and Transitional Constraints
  
• Top-Down Design technique for creating assemblies
  
• Inventor tools for Top-Down Design, including associative links, adaptive parts, multi-body design, layout design, derived components, and skeleton models
  
• Creating Positional Representations of an assembly to review motion, evaluate the position of assembly components, or document an assembly in a drawing
  
• Creating Level of Detail Representations to reduce the clutter of large assemblies. Also learn about Substitute Level of Detail Representations
  
• Design Accelerator to easily insert standard and customizable components
  
• Creating rendered realistic images and animations of parts and assemblies using Inventor Studio and the Video Producer
  
• Using iMates, iAssemblies, and iLogic to work efficiently with assemblies
  
• Using the Frame Generator to create members in a structural frame work
  
• Using pattern, mirror, copy techniques to duplicate components in an assembly
  
• Working with weldments
  
• Link system parameters and custom parameters to an external spreadsheet file
  

Tuition: $1,050

• Interface and general enhancements
  
• Sketching enhancements
  
• Part modeling enhancements
  
• Top down design enhancements
  
• Part design using iLogic
  
• Assembly modeling enhancements
  
• Drawing enhancements
  
• Sheet metal modeling enhancements
  

Tuition: $695

This two-day course introduces the latest release of Autodesk Vault to end users and CAD administrators. Topics covered in this course include:

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault features
  
• Basic Autodesk Vault tasks
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Inventor (optional)
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD (optional)
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD Electrical (optional)
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD Mechanical (optional)
  
• Common Autodesk Vault tasks
  
• Organizing and populating Autodesk Vault
  
• Managing Autodesk Vault
  

Tuition: $695

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault features
  
• Autodesk Vault workflow
  
• Using Autodesk Vault Explorer
  
• Organizing Autodesk Inventor, project, and library files in Autodesk Vault
  
• Searching Autodesk Vault
  
• Working with non-CAD files in Autodesk Vault
  
• Working with Autodesk Inventor files in Autodesk Vault
  
• Customizing the user interface
  
• File management and reusing design data
  

Tuition: $395

This two-day course expands on the content covered in Autodesk Vault Fundamentals, and is designed for users of Autodesk Vault Workgroup and Autodesk Vault Collaboration. The course focuses on document lifecycles and providing knowledge of advanced data organization. Topics covered in this course include:

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault Workgroup and Autodesk Vault Collaboration
  
• Lifecycle states
  
• Revision management
  
• Working with categories
  
• Managing properties
  
• Automatic file naming
  
• Creating reports
  
• Job server
  
• Web client
  

Tuition: $695

This two-day course provides instruction on all features in the latest release of Autodesk Vault Professional, and is designed for users of Autodesk Vault Professional. Topics covered in this course include:

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault Professional
  
• Working with items
  
• Managing change
  
• Working with bills of material
  
• Reporting
  
• Administrating Autodesk Vault Professional
  

Tuition: $795

• Advanced model appearance options
  
• Multi-body part modeling
  
• 2D and 3D sketching techniques
  
• Advanced geometry creation tools (work features, area lofts, sweeps, and coils)
  
• Part creation using iLogic
  
• Analysis tools
  
• Creating and editing basic surfaces
  
• Importing surfaces and surface repair tools
  
• Using iFeatures and iParts to work efficiently with part models
  
• Advanced Drawing tools (tables for iParts, surfaces in drawing views, and custom sketched symbols)
  
• Importing and exporting datas
  
• Emboss and Decal features
  
• Adding notes with the Engineer's Notebook
  

Tuition: $750

The AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials 4 day class teaches students about the indispensable core tools required to use the AutoCAD Mechanical software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to accelerate the mechanical design process. With specific tools for creating and manipulating geometry, automatically acquiring bills of materials, generating mechanical components, and performing design calculations, the AutoCAD Mechanical software offers significant productivity gains that the student learns to maximize. Major topics include:

• Introduction to AutoCAD Mechanical interface elements
  
• Configuring and manipulating Layers with the object property management system
  
• Working with Mechanical Structure in AutoCAD Mechanical
  
• Using the core mechanical design tools to create and modify geometry
  
• Modifying and editing drawing objects
  
• Inserting industry standard parts into assembly designs
  
• Creating production-ready drawings in model space
  
• Layouts of structured and non-structured geometry
  
• Annotating drawings
  
• Bills of material, parts lists, and balloons
  
• Using Inventor Link Data to create Mechanical drawings
  
• Create custom drafting standards and drawing templates with configuration settings
  
  

Tuition: $1,495

This Exclusive EMA fundamentals 2 day class is focused on the Point-to-Point Cable & Harness features of the powerful AutoCAD Electrical software. Geared toward designers that work with Cables, Harnesses and Connectors in a Point-to-Point environment (as opposed to Ladder/Logic Diagrams), this class will provide the student indispensable information to become more efficient in the creation of these designs. Major topics include:

• Introduction to AutoCAD Electrical
  
• Managing Project Files
  
• Inserting and Editing Wires
  
• Wire Types
  
• Wire Numbering Basics
  
• AutoCAD Electrical Editing Tools
  
• Point-to-Point Wiring Diagrams
  
• Creating and Editing Symbols
  
• Creating and Publishing Reports
  
• Drawing Settings, Project Settings, and Templates in AutoCAD Electrical
  
• Updating Components and Wire Numbers in a Project
  

Tuition: $1,400

This Advanced Inventor 2 day class introduces students to the core tools in the Inventor Cable and Harness environment. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to design physical cables and harnesses for electrical systems in almost any kind of product or machine. Students will learn to maximize specific tools to incorporate cable and harness runs into digital prototypes. The Inventor Cable and Harness environment offers the ability to calculate accurate path lengths, avoid small-radius bends, and help ensure that electrical components fit into the mechanical assembly before manufacturing. Major topics include:

• Introduction to cable and harness functionality
  
• Adding and documenting cable and harness designs
  
• Creating Wire Harness Assemblies
  
• Using the Content Center Library
  
• Adding and importing wires and cables, ribbon cables, and route segments
  
• Editing cable and harness designs
  
• Creating and annotating 2D drawings
  
• Exporting design data
  
• Library and configuration files
  
• Custom Content Center library
  

• Autodesk Inventor Part & Assembly Modeling
• Drawing View Creation & Annotating

Tuition: $750

This Advanced Inventor 2 day class introduces students to the core tools in the Autodesk Inventor Tube and Pipe environment. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to design routed elements, including tubing, piping, and flexible hose. Students will learn to maximize specific tools to incorporate tube and pipe runs into digital prototypes. The Autodesk Inventor Tube and Pipe environment provides rules-based routing tools that select the correct fittings and helps the pipe run to comply with your standards for segment length, round-off increments, and bend radius. Major topics include:

• Introduction to the tube and pipe environment
  
• Setting up routes and runs
  
• Placing initial fittings into the tube and pipe design
  
• Creating, editing, and managing routes for rigid pipe, rigid tube, and flexible hose designs
  
• Managing content libraries
  
• Publishing custom content to content libraries
  
• Creating new styles that use custom content
  
• Documenting tube and pipe designs through the creation of 2D drawings and parts lists
  
• Exporting 3D design data
  

• Autodesk Inventor Part & Assembly Modeling
• Drawing View Creation & Annotating

Tuition: $750

The Autodesk Inventor Publisher Essentials 1 day class instructs students in best approaches for creating technical documentation using the Autodesk Inventor Publisher software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to create accurate and compelling documentation, and to publish it in a variety of supported formats. The class progresses from the initial planning phase, in which you begin by reading in all of the source data and then adding the necessary annotations to create and publish the product documentation. Major topics include:

• Overview of the Autodesk Inventor Publisher software
  
• Opening and creating documents
  
• Using the Autodesk Inventor Publisher interface
  
• Pre-planning and outlining projects to meet product documentation requirements
  
• Introduction to Storyboards and Snapshots
  
• Documenting products using Inventor Publisher's unique authoring tools
  
• Creating Animated Presentations
  
• Publishing documents, storyboards and snapshots
  
• Introduction to the Autodesk Inventor Publisher Mobile (IPM) Viewer app
  

Tuition: $395

This fundamental 4 day training class provides a thorough introduction to Autodesk 3ds Max Design software that will help new users make the most of this sophisticated application, as well as broaden the horizons of existing, self-taught users. The practices in this training guide are geared towards real-world tasks encountered by users of Autodesk 3ds Max Design. Major topics include:

• Introduction to Autodesk 3ds Max Design
  
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design Interface and Workflow
  
• Project Configuration
  
• 3D Modeling with Primitives and 2D Objects
  
• Assembling Files
  
• Materials in Autodesk 3ds Max Design
  
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design Lighting
  
• Lighting with Autodesk 3ds Max Design mental ray
  
• Cameras and Rendering
  
• Animation for Visualization
  

Tuition: $1,595

The Autodesk Navisworks Essentials 3 day class instructs students in best approaches to combine 3D geometry from cross disciplines into one scene to enable effective model reviews. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to review and markup models, using TimeLiner, Animator, Scripter, and Presenter, as well as the Clash Detective tools within Autodesk Navisworks. Using the functionality of the Autodesk Navisworks Review, Simulate, and Manage features, students learn how to open, review, and run object-interference checks on 3D models. Students also learn how to link to task-scheduling files and create 4D construction simulations. Using the Animator and Scripter tools, students create interactive animations. In addition, students learn how the Presenter tools can help them create photorealistic images and animations. Major topics include:

• Introduction to Autodesk Navisworks
  
• Opening and appending 3D files of different formats
  
• Saving files in Autodesk Navisworks format
  
• Utilizing external databases when creating links to object property and scheduling files
  
• Review and reporting tools
  
• Checking the validity of construction schedules with Construction Simulations
  
• Use Animator and Scripter to create interactive animations for presentations and demonstrations
  
• Materials, lighting and backgrounds
  
• Interference detection between 3D files of different discipline
  

• 3D design and task-scheduling software.

Tuition: $1,050

• Inventor Sheet Metal interface
  
• Sheet metal design process
  
• Creating base Faces, Contour Flanges, and Contour Rolls
  
• Creating secondary Faces, Contour Flanges, and Contour Rolls
  
• Sheet metal Parameters
  
• Creating Flanges
  
• Creating Hems, Folds, and Bends
  
• Corner Rounds and Chamfers
  
• Sheet Metal Cuts (Holes, Cuts, and Punch Features)
  
• Sheet Metal Cuts (Holes, Cuts, and Punch Features)
  
• Corner Seams (Seams and Miters)
  
• Generating Flat Patterns
  
• Lofted Flanges
  
• Rips
  
• Unfolding and Refolding
  
• Documentation and Annotation of drawings
  
• Converting solid model to sheet metal models
  
• Sheet Metal Styles
  

Tuition: $750