Datamat Mechanical and Manufacturing CAD Course Catalog

AutoCAD Electrical Fundamentals (Three Days)

AutoCAD Electrical Fundamentals covers the indispensable core topics for working with AutoCAD Electrical. The training manual provides instruction on how to use many of the software's powerful electrical drawing creation tools and also focuses on creating schematic drawings, panel drawings, and PLC/IO circuits using automated commands for symbol insertion, component tagging, wire numbering, and drawing modification.

Students learn how to build intelligent ladder diagrams and panel layouts, and how to leverage this intelligence. The course provides an overview of many AutoCAD Electrical utilities designed to enable users to quickly build and manage electrical-controls drawings. Students learn how to create electrical-controls production drawings. All exercises and datasets through hands-on exercises are based on the JIC (US) standard.

Course Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe the AutoCAD Electrical user interface and follow the basic electrical project design workflow.
Manage projects and the multiple drawing and inter-drawing relationships contained in electrical projects.
Insert wires, add wire numbers, manage circuits, and create point-to-point wiring diagrams and drawings.
Insert and annotate schematic symbols.
Edit drawings project-wide with commands that are specific to the electrical design environment.
Extract information from drawings to create Bill of Material, Wiring, and other reports.
Create and annotate panel layout drawings with lists of components that are extracted from schematic drawings and with other specific panel layout tools, such as the Terminal Strip Editor.

Topics include:

Basic Workflow
Project Basics
Schematic Wiring
Schematic Components
Schematic Editing
Schematic Reports
Panel Layouts

Prerequisites: This course is designed for new AutoCAD Electrical users. It is recommended that you have:

A background in electrical design (drafting and design experience is a plus).
A working knowledge of AutoCAD.
A working knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista.

Cost: $895.

Autodesk Inventor Fundamentals (Four Days)

This hands-on course covers the Autodesk Inventor capabilities used to create, inspect, and edit part and assembly models of moderate complexity and document those designs with drawing views. It instructs users in best practices for parametric design philosophy through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum. Users acquire the knowledge needed to complete the process of designing models from conceptual sketching, through to solid modeling, assembly design, and drawing production.

Topics include:

The Inventor interface
Drawing 2D sketches
Constraining and dimensioning sketches
Creating 3D parts
Creating drawings and views of parts
Placing and constraining parts in assemblies
Designing assembly mechanisms
Creating drawings and views of assemblies

Prerequisites: It is recommended that you have a working knowledge of:

Mechanical design and construction documentation
Microsoft Windows XP or Vista or Windows 7.

Cost: $1095

Autodesk Inventor Advanced – Combining Part and Assembly Modeling (Three Days)

Autodesk Inventor Advanced is the second in a series of courses on Inventor from The Datamat Group. The goal of this class is to build on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling course by taking students to a higher level of productivity when designing part models and when creating and working with assemblies in Inventor. Students will also learn about various drawing tools.

Prerequisites: The class assumes a mastery of Inventor basics as taught in Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling. Students should know how to create and edit parts, use work features, and create and annotate drawing views, etc. It is also recommended you have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP or Vista.

Cost: $895.

Autodesk Inventor Advanced Part Modeling (Two Days)

Autodesk Inventor Advanced Part Modeling is the second in a series of courses on Inventor from The Datamat Group. The goal of this class is to build on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling course by taking students to a higher level of productivity when designing part models in Inventor. In addition, students will learn about various drawing tools.

In this course, we consider various approaches to part design and emphasize useful strategies. Specific advanced part modeling techniques covered include multi-body design, advanced lofts, advanced sweeps, coils, and surface modeling. Additional material aimed at increasing efficiency is also included: iFeatures for frequently needed design elements, iParts for similar designs, translation options for importing data, and the Engineer's Notebook for communicating information. The course also covers some miscellaneous drawing tools such as custom sketches symbols, working with title blocks and borders, and documenting iParts. With an understanding of these tools, students can begin to streamline the design and documentation process.

Topics include:

2D and 3D sketching techniques
Advanced geometry creation tools (centerline and area lofts, sweeps, coils)
Analysis tools
Creating and editing basic surfaces
Importing surfaces & surface repair tools
Using iFeatures and iParts to work efficiently with part models
Advanced Drawing tools (hole tables, revision tables and tags, tables for iParts, surfaces in drawing views, custom sketched symbols)
Importing and exporting data
Adding notes with the Engineer's Notebook

Cost: $695.

Autodesk Inventor Advanced Assembly Modeling (Two Days)

Inventor Advanced Assembly Modeling builds on the skills acquired in the Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling and Advanced Part Modeling courses to take students to a higher level of productivity creating and working with assemblies in Inventor.

In this course, we begin by discussing the concept of Top-Down Design for assembly creation. Planning the assembly using the top-down design approach helps create clean, reusable geometry that interacts as expected with the rest of the assembly. Throughout the course you will be taught how various Inventor tools can be used to achieve Top-Down Design practices in your assemblies using Derive, Multi-Body Design, and Layouts. Other advanced assembly topics include Positional and Level of Detail Representations (including substitute), iMates and iAssemblies, Frame Generator, Design Accelerator, and file management and duplication techniques that aim to help you become more efficient when working with assemblies.

Accurately communicating a design to all levels of a design team is important. A unit has been included on Inventor Studio to teach you how to render, produce, and animate realistic images.

Topics include:

Introduction of the Top-Down Design technique for creating assemblies and its components.
Inventor tools for Top-Down Design, including creating parts and features in the context of the assembly, associative links, adaptive parts, multi-body design, layout design, derived components, and skeleton models.
Applying motion to existing assembly constraints using either Drive Constraints or Motion and Transitional Constraints.
Creating Positional Representations of an assembly to review motion, evaluate the position of assembly components, or documents as assembly in a drawing.
Creating Level of Detail Representations to reduce the clutter of large assemblies, as well as reduce your time spent waiting for your system to retrieve a large number of components in an assembly. You will also learn about Substitute Level of Detail Representations.
Using the Design Accelerator to easily insert standard and customizable components and features into your model.
Using iMates and iAssemblies to work efficiently with assemblies.
Creating rendered realistic images and animations of parts and assemblies using Inventor Studio and the Video Producer.
Using pattern, mirror, and copy techniques to duplicate components in an assembly.
Using the Frame Generator to create members in a structural frame work.
Working with weldments.
Link system parameters and custom parameters to an external spreadsheet file and use it to drive parameters in the model. You will also learn about custom formatting and creating expression within a parameter.

Prerequisites: The class assumes a mastery of Inventor basics as taught in Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling. Inventor Advanced Part Modeling is recommended. It is also recommended you have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP or Vista.

Cost: $695.

Autodesk Inventor Update (One Day)

Autodesk Inventor Update is the ideal training course for users that are upgrading from the previous release. It introduces the new concepts and techniques of solid modeling that have been introduced and focuses on the enhancements made to the User Interface, Part Modeling, Sketching, Assembly Modeling, Drawing, and Sheet Metal Modeling environments.

Topics include:

Interface Enhancements
Part Modeling Enhancements
Sketching Enhancements
Assembly Modeling Enhancements
Drawing Enhancements
Sheet Metal Modeling Enhancements

Prerequisites: The course assumes familiarity with the previous release of Inventor and a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP or Vista.

Cost: $395.

Autodesk Inventor Sheet Metal (Three Days)

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Cost: $895.

Autodesk Vault Manufacturing Fundamentals (One Day)

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Cost: $395.

Autodesk Vault Fundamentals (Two Days)

This hands-on course covers the Autodesk Vault features. Major topics include:

Vault Setup
Setup Vault Server
Setup Vault Client
Using Vault Manager
Using Vault Explorer
Creating Vaults
Creating Users
Setting Permissions for Users
Importing Existing Project into Vault
Log into Vault Explorer
Set the Working Folder
Make Project File Vault Ready
Adding Files into Vault
Adding Projects into Vault
Adding Libraries into Vault
Working with Vault Explorer
Add Files
Get the Latest Version
Get the Previous Version
Check Out Files
Check In Files
Undo Check Out
Browse the Working Folder
Pack and Go inside Vault
Managing Files
Moving Files
Renaming Files
Deleting Files from a Vault
Attaching Files to Other Files in a Vault
Sharing Files between Projects in a Vault
Viewing File Statistics
Search for Files in a Vault
Customize View of the Vault
Renew Version History
Where is a File Used?
What Files Does the Current File Use?
Utilities
Migration Utility
Inventor Plug-In
AutoCAD M Plug-In

Prerequisites: It is recommended that you have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

Cost: $695