PostalCAD Fundamentals

The goal of this course is to provide students with tools to design and layout a Postal facility. The program addresses the specific needs of Postal employees designing mail-processing plants with the tools available in AutoCAD and PostalCAD 2006.  The instructor introduces and demonstrates new drafting principles and techniques.  Students then explore the material and investigate the new techniques as a group, or at their own pace.  This hands-on course will take a student through the process of designing their own facility and master many of the newly learned application areas: 
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Five day course featuring:

  • Installing and launching PostalCAD
  • Using AutoCAD and PostalCAD Aliases
  • Exploring PostalCAD Utilities (Annotation, Block, Display, Edit, Layer, Settings and Text)
  • Drawing Scaling and Setup (Title Blocks, North Arrows, and Bar Scale)
  • Architectural Features (Column Grid, Walls, Doors, and Windows)
  • Platform and Dock Layout
  • Space Management and Reporting
  • AS504 Overview
  • Furniture and Equipment Placement
  • Conveyor Design
  • Editing and Updating Existing Drawings
  • Printing and Plotting Facilities
  • Computer and Electrical Wiring Diagrams
  • Drawing Postal Equipment

Course Number: (53201-32)
Prerequisite: Completion of either AutoCAD Fundamentals (53201-23) or an equivalent course or experience.                  Fundamental understanding of AutoCAD 2006, including mastery of the following AutoCAD command categories:  File (Open, New, Save, Saveas), Viewing (Panning and Zooming), Drawing (Lines, Polylines, Circles, Text, etc.), Editing (Move, Copy, Array, Erase, etc.), Layers, Blocks, Object Snaps, and Plotting.  WAIVERS ARE  NOT ALLOWED.
 
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PostalCAD Standardization

The intent of this course is to allow experienced USPS PostalCAD students the opportunity to modify their existing workroom floor drawings to achieve PostalCAD standardization while learning the proper cleanup procedures.  Students are required to bring the current version of their facility drawings to work on during the class.  File settings, layers, equipment blocks, and graphic elements of the student’s drawings will be updated using AutoCAD and PostalCAD tools and techniques.

Class format is a combined lecture and lab where students review concepts and tools at the beginning of the session and then apply those concepts directly to their facility drawings.  In addition to the group sessions during the class, time will be allowed each day for the instructor to work with students individually to assist with their drawing cleanup.

Upon completion of the course the student’s drawings will be labeled as PostalCAD Certified by the instructor.  This certification states that the facility drawing now meets the current PostalCAD standardization and formatting rules established for the USPS.

 

 
Five day course featuring:

  • PostalCAD standardization concepts

  • Overview of file settings and variables

  • Use of PostalCAD cleanup menu

  • Layer standardization guidelines

  • Equipment block guidelines and listings

  • Modifying and updating equipment layout and definitions

  • Space management concepts, applications, and preparations

  • Tagging space management boundaries

  • Discussion and application of civil elements

  • Use of formal documentation graphic elements and their application

  • Process for maintaining PostalCAD certification

  • Archiving and Buzzsaw facility upload process

Course Number: (53201-34)
Prerequisite: Completion of PostalCAD Fundamentals (53201-32) and a USPS Buzzsaw account.
 
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PostalCAD Advanced Features

 The goal of this course is to introduce experienced US Postal Service users to advanced techniques in PostalCAD 2006.  These techniques will help students to optimize drawing capabilities and to create solutions to problem drawings using PostalCAD 2006. While the class is structured around the instructor’s demonstration of methods and techniques, with the primary focus being on students working through exercises together, there is latitude for advanced students to explore new techniques at their own pace.  Students are encouraged to bring drawings of their own facility that may be worked on and cleaned-up during the week of class.
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Five day course featuring:

  • The AutoCAD 2006 Interface
  • Key AutoCAD 2006 Drawing and Editing Features
  • Advanced PostalCAD 2006 Commands
  • Four New Menus: Affinity,  Transport Work, Database, and Cleanup
  • Archiving and Removing Unused Data
  • Purging and Auditing Commands
  • Using Prototype PostalCAD Drawings
  • Applying CAD Standards
  • Exploring Advance Cleanup Tools
  • Troubleshooting an Existing Facility Drawing Advanced Layering Utilities
  • Simplifying and Using Standard Equipment Blocks
  • Converting a Facility Drawing to the PostalCAD Standard
  • Creating and Using Externally Referenced Drawings
  • Linking PostalCAD Object to an Access Database
  • Creating Emergency Evacuation Routes
  • Setting up Paperspace Layouts for Plotting

Course Number: (53201-31)
Prerequisite: Completion of PostalCAD Fundamentals (53201-26) or PostalCAD 2002 (53201-28).  WAIVERS ARE NOT ALLOWED.
 
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