AutoCAD 2018 Beginners 2-D Course
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
(Park in the Parker Street Lot)
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:00 pm
AutoCAD 2018 User Interface
Setting units type
• Trade, limits, grid, snap
Drawing objects
• Lines, p-lines, circles, arcs
Editing a Drawing
Edit a drawing
• Copy, move, trim, extend, offset
• P-edit command and subcommand
Display a drawing
• Zoom command and subcommands
• View command and subcommands
Viewing and Displaying a Drawing
Setting dimension type for trade
Dimensioning
• Horizontal dimensioning
• Vertical dimensioning
Printing, Plotting or Printing to File
Fit a drawing to a sheet
Scaling a drawing to a sheet
Printing and plotting demonstrations
Credits
Architects
6.0 Contact Hours (4.0 Max. in MA)
6.0 AIA Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.0 contact/continuing education hours to architects and 6.0 PDHs to engineers in many states, including Massachusetts architects. Educators and courses for Massachusetts architects are not subject to pre-approval.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.0 Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
The AIA does not deem the subject matter of this seminar to be HSW. As such, HalfMoon Education recommends Massachusetts architects claim only their allowable number of non-HSW contact hours for completing this course.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any state with a construction contractor continuing education requirement.
Attendance will be monitored and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Parviz Heravi
Parviz Heravi, P.E., S.E., is a professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in structural engineering as well as construction engineering. His specialized experience includes preliminary design feasibility studies, CADD management, structural constructability, value engineering and coastal engineering. Mr. Hevari is a registered professional engineer and a licensed building and engineering contractor. He is a member of the American Association of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Mr. Hevari earned his B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E (Structures) from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.