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Certificates: ArchiCAD" certificate
Certificate "Layout design with Adobe InDesign CC" -
Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
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Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 8 Weeks
CAD with ArchiCAD
Basics (approx. 3 days)
2D construction: drawing and editing
Coordinate input and auxiliary lines
Editing and modification tools
Dimensioning, texts, hatching, PET palette
Pens and colors, layers/basics
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Architecture 3D (approx. 8 days)
Systematic project and object management, storey management
Creating floor plans, sections, views, axonometry and perspectives
Tools and editing options for walls, ceilings, windows, doors, objects, roofs/roofmaker, stairs/StairMaker and railings
Multi-layer components, building materials, priorities
Profile manager, facade modeler
Dimensioning, details and worksheets
Create rooms and room stamps
Evaluation of CAD data and lists
3D modeling (approx. 1 day)
Morph and shell
Creating and editing free forms
Visualization (approx. 1 day)
Basics of photorealistic visualization
Creating perspectives, rendering
Plan presentation, plan output (approx. 2 days)
Place sections, views and floor plans on the plan, create plan layout/master template
Output via Publisher as PDF
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Layout design with Adobe InDesign CC
Layout basics (approx. 1 day)
Project workflow, planning and conception
Introduction to working environment, user interface and tools
Document and program settings
Workspaces
Important keyboard commands (shortcuts)
Navigation, page and document structure
Layout creation techniques (approx. 2 days)
Creating page layouts with text/graphics
Margins and columns, guidelines, rulers
Working with frames and corner options
Aligning and transforming objects, Pathfinder
Properties panel
Creating and saving document templates (*.indt)
Layout customization methods (e.g. Liquid Layout)
Creating alternative layouts
Implementing complex layout ideas graphically (approx. 2 days)
Creating design grids for layouts
Use of master pages, nested master pages
Automatic page numbers
Generating section markers
Managing complex layout content with layers
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Text editing and typography (approx. 2 days)
Introduction to fonts and font groups
Classification and properties
Introduction to Adobe Fonts (Typekit), variable fonts
Placement of texts, import/export options
Text frame concatenation, intelligent text wrapping
Text editing, hyphenation, wrap options
Alignment to baseline grid
Text on path
Versatile use of text formats (approx. 1 day)
Define character and paragraph formats
GREP, defining and inserting text variables
Creating tables of contents
Libraries, snippets and object formats
Layout template with text formats
Using the book function
Working with lists and tables (approx. 1 day)
Tabs, enumerations and numbering
Data import and conversion options
Creating and editing tables
Working with images and graphics (approx. 2 days)
Pixel images and vector graphics
Image resolution and color space (RGB, CMYK)
Placing and managing images and graphics
Working with links (control panel)
Image data transfer (import/export options) from Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
Frame fitting options
Clipping paths and cut-outs
Flow around images and objects (text outflow)
Colors, effects (approx. 1 day)
Print and screen colors
Designing, creating and saving professionally with colors and color gradients
Using color sets, e.g. for projects with CI guidelines
Use of Adobe Color
Working with effects and transparencies
Soft gradient edge tools
Digital publishing and interactivity (approx. 2 days)
Presenting and advertising on screen
Planning, structure and implementation of interactive documents (PDF, EPUB)
Buttons, hyperlinks and bookmarks
Animations and page transitions
Integrating AV media, SVG import and export
E-books with fixed layout (EPUB 3.0)
HTML, CSS and tag export
Viewer app (e.g. Adobe Digital Editions)
Publish Online function
Print output, cross-media publishing (approx. 1 day)
Color management, ICC profiles
Data check, soft proof and color application
Links and preflight settings
PDF/X export for professional printing
Printing and sharing documents
Save for web (e.g. png, jpg, gif, svg)
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.
After the course, you will be able to use the functions and techniques of the CAD program ArchiCAD and create complex drawings and models.
You will also be able to use the layout program InDesign CC from Adobe Systems quickly and confidently and will be able to convert texts, images and graphics into a sophisticated layout.
The course is aimed at people with a degree in architecture and engineering, technicians, draughtsmen and technical draughtsmen as well as specialists from related industries with appropriate professional experience.
Thanks to your additional layout skills, your future field of application may also include the creation of advertising media.
Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).