AutoCAD Essential Training Course

AutoCAD is powerful design and drafting software used to create precise 2D and 3D designs.

In this course, expert talks you through the essentials of AutoCAD, explaining how the necessary processes and workflows will make you a better AutoCAD user. Expert covers how to use the ribbon, choose workspaces, and use the ViewCube, also demonstrates how to manage units and options, draw and modify objects, work with dimensioning techniques, and use attributes, tables, and external references. When you wrap up this course, you'll be prepared to use AutoCAD competently in architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or product design.

Contents 📚

Introduction

The essentials of AutoCAD 💻

The advantages of using AutoCAD 🌐

What you should know before watching this course 🤔

Using the exercise files 📂

The new AutoCAD interface 🔄

Using Units and Options Setting drawing units

Setting options ⚙️

Objects using different units 🔢

Working with templates: DWT 📄

Drawing More Objects Rectangles and polygons

Points and donuts •🍩

Ellipses ⭕

Isometric views and elliptical arcs 🔵

Modifying Objects Selecting objects

Using Offset and Mirror 🖱️

Using Move and Copy ✨

Using Rotate and Scale 🔄📏

Creating and using arrays 🔄

Using Stretch and Lengthen 📏

Using Trim and Extend ✂️

Using Break and Join 🛠️

Using grips and grip editing 🖱️

Using Boundaries 🔒

Using Selection Cycling 🔄

Using Fillet and Chamfer 🔍

Using Divide and Measure ➗

Editing polylines and splines 📏

Hatching and Gradients Using the Hatch command

Using the Gradient command 🖌️

Editing hatches and gradients 🔄

More Text Techniques

Aligning text ↔️

Framing text in a title block 📏

More Dimensioning Techniques Editing dimensions and dimension overrides

Using Continue and Baseline 👥

Breaking and spacing dimensions 📏

Automatic dimensioning 🤖

Using multileaders ➡️👥

Reusing Content Using groups

Creating and inserting a block 🧱

Using the EXPLODE command 💥

Redefining a block definition 🏷️

Using WBLOCK 📂

Creating a simple dynamic block 🔲

Attributes and Tables Creating a simple block with attributes

Enhanced Attribute Editor 🛠️

Working with table styles 🎨

Designing a table 📏

Adding fields to a table ➕📊

External References (XRefs) Working with XRefs

Attaching and overlaying XRefs 📎🔲

Clipping XRefs ✂️

Editing XRefs ✏️

Editing XRefs in-place 🔄

Conclusion and summary 🏁📝