Welcome to the world of COMPUTER AIDED DETAILING

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Computer Aided Detailing Course Syllabus

Instructor: Jeffrey Lupp

This is a 90 hour comprehensive Computer Aided Detailing Course with a duration of three quarters . During this time the student will work with the software, and detailing concepts that are used in our industry through a series of mocked up building mechanical projects. For students pursuing a detailing career path a certification program will be available with a certificate of proficiency being issued upon meeting the course criteria.

   For many years Computer Aided Drafting or CAD, described a single process; that of using a computer, and software to generate a set of 2 dimensional plans that could be used to fabricate, and install a building mechanical job. Moving to this method of plan creation brought great benefits in drafting efficiency, and work flow over the age old practice of hand drafting. Now, some two decades later, we find ourselves in a working environment that is completely rooted in the use of technology with many different software platforms, and a seemingly endless supply of resources available, providing us with the means to accomplish greater designs in a much shorter time frame. Now a building is constructed, and coordinated in a virtual environment right down to the finest details, allowing both the design and construction process to happen simultaneously. It is the intention of this Computer aided Detailing Course to explore the use of the software, work flow, and detailing concepts that are used throughout the course of a building mechanical project in this modern environment. An outline of the topics of study are as follows:

AUTOCAD 2019

        This is the current version of the industry standard CAD software. We will look at its use as a stand alone platform, as well as how it is used along with the CAD MEP software, while exploring the advanced features, and their application in a building trades detailing project

AutoCAD Fabrication MEP

 Fabrication CAD MEP is a well established mechanical detailing platform that runs in an AUTOCAD work environment. With its fitting libraries, Fabrication report generating utilities, spooling tools, and the ability to extract point location information from the model such as for hanger locations with the Trimble process, it has been a staple of building trades detailing for some time now

Revit

This Building Information Modeling (BIM)  software represents an entirely new approach to both the design, and detailing phases of a building mechanical project. With the ability to design, detail, coordinate, and manage the Fabrication work flow from this single platform, Revit will play a prominent role in the future of the building mechanical trades

Navisworks

The Navisworks project review software allows us to view the 3D models from all of the mechanical trades on a project, as well as the architectural, and structural models. It is in this environment that we are able to fly through the model to

BlueBeam Revu

   Bluebeam Revu is the new industry standard PDF software. It is designed for working with construction documents with extensive markup, and publishing tools designed for the construction industry