Kate Morrical. As the Technical Marketing Manager for AutoCAD LT, Kate works closely with the AutoCAD LT Product Development & Marketing teams and with AutoCAD LT users through discussion groups, her blog, and events such as Autodesk University and AUGI CAD Camps. She has over 10 years of experience with Autodesk products, starting with AutoCAD R14, and has been blogging about AutoCAD LT since April 2007. Kate is a licensed professional engineer in Maryland, and was employed as an engineer and CAD Manager for a 30-person office of a structural engineering firm before joining Autodesk. S1-1: GENERAL DESIGN AND DRAFTING TRACK Product: AutoCAD® 2010 Course Title: It’s All Relative – Using Constraints to Define Relationships Level: Beginner/Intermediate Instructor: Kate Morrical Title: AutoCAD LT Technical Marketing Manager Company: Autodesk Description: When you create and edit objects in an AutoCAD drawing, they’re usually related to something else in the drawing. For example, two lines might be parallel, two circles might be concentric or two rectangles might be 6” apart. Parametric constraints help you make those relationships persistent, so objects always know where they are relative to other geometry. This class will introduce you to the power of parametric constraints in AutoCAD 2010. We will cover creating geometric relationships between objects, defining dimensional relationships, and using formulas to drive the value of related parameters. We’ll even show examples from a variety of industries, so you can see how you can put parametrics to work for you.   S4-1: GENERAL DESIGN AND DRAFTING TRACK Product: AutoCAD® 2010 Course Title: The Ins and Outs of Output Level: Beginner/Intermediate Instructor: Kate Morrical Title: AutoCAD LT Technical Marketing Manager Company: Autodesk Description: Whether your AutoCAD drawings are complicated or simple, they usually can’t stay in DWG format forever. At some point in your design process, you usually need to send them to somebody else, maybe as a PDF or DWF, or even hard copies. This class will take you through the plotting process from beginning to end – setting up a printer, managing the appearance of the finished product, and choosing an output format. We’ll show you how to save time with page setups and batch plotting, and explore new options for exporting drawings and creating plot stamps.   What’s New in AutoCAD 2011 Lunch-and-Learn presented by Kate Morrical Here’s your chance to learn first-hand about the exciting new features in AutoCAD 2011. See how your ideas can take shape with greater clarity and accuracy than ever before, thanks to new surface modeling tools and point cloud support, inferred constraint capabilities with parametrics and updated productivity tools for hatch creation and editing polylines. These and other new capabilities will help you work faster and easier than ever before.