Autocad Beginners Course 2023

AutoCAD Tutorials for Beginners

What you'll learn

Feel comfortable using AutoCAD to create and edit your own building layouts, and mechanical designs from scratch.

Learn the basic skills of AutoCAD: shapes, text, modification, layers, and dimensions.

Understand the difference between Paper Space & Model Space.

Be ready to move onto more advanced AutoCAD subjects such as 3D Modelling.

Requirements

Basic knowledge of windows operating system

AutoCAD Software

Description

The following tutorial is a series of AutoCAD video- lessons addressed to beginners who aim to become AutoCAD literate. Created by professional instructors (Autodesk Certified Instructors), using the latest version of AutoCAD, which currently is AutoCAD 2023, this tutorial’s purpose is to teach you all the essential tools you will need to create any 2D drawing you wish, in the most quick and practical way. The lessons are structured in a way that will show you all the different aspects of the software, the tools, and the methodologies in order to work efficiently on your projects.What is this course ?The course is designed for a beginner as well as seasoned users.A beginner can start learning the software right from scratch by following the course along just from lecture one. A seasoned AutoCAD user will also find this course very comprehensive and they can choose the topics they want to learn about skipping the basics.Instructor support for questionsI understand that students will have questions related to the course and its necessary also for a healthy learning process hence I encourage students to ask their questions related to the course in the Q&A section of the course. I answer each and every question as soon as possible and so far I have answered every single course-related questions from students on Udemy Q&A section.Pre-requisitesYou need to have access to AutoCAD software (student, trial or commercial version) for this course. This course can be used with AutoCAD LT as well.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 1-1 User_Interface

Lecture 2 1-2 New_Open_Save

Lecture 3 1-3 Drawing units and precision

Lecture 4 1-4 Selecting objects

Lecture 5 1-5 Navigation tools

Section 2: Drawing Tools

Lecture 6 2-1 Creating Lines

Lecture 7 2-2 Creating arcs

Lecture 8 2-3 Creating Polylines

Lecture 9 2-4 Creating Circles

Lecture 10 2-5 Creating Ellipses

Lecture 11 2-6 Creating Rectangles

Lecture 12 2-7 Creating Polygons

Lecture 13 2-8 Creating Splines

Lecture 14 2-9 Creating points

Lecture 15 2-10 Divide and measure

Lecture 16 2-11 Creating Hatches

Lecture 17 2-12 Adjusting the drawing environment- Osnaps

Lecture 18 2-13 Adjusting the drawing environment- Ortho & Reference lines

Section 3: Modifying tools

Lecture 19 3-1 Copying objects

Lecture 20 3-2 Mirroring objects

Lecture 21 3-3 Moving objects

Lecture 22 3-4 Rotating objects

Lecture 23 3-5 Joining and Exploding objects

Lecture 24 3-6 Trimming objects

Lecture 25 3-7 Extending objects

Lecture 26 3-8 The break at point tool

Lecture 27 3-9 Chamfering and filleting corners

Lecture 28 3-10 Scaling objects

Lecture 29 3-11 Stretching objects

Lecture 30 3-12 Offsetting objects

Lecture 31 3-13 Rectangular Array

Lecture 32 3-14 Polar Array

Lecture 33 3-15 Path Array

Lecture 34 3-16 Quick object modification

Lecture 35 3-17 Selecting and deleting dublicate lines

Section 4: Blocks, Layers and Properties

Lecture 36 4-1 Inserting Blocks

Lecture 37 4-2 Creating blocks

Lecture 38 4-3 Working with layers

Lecture 39 4-4 Changing object properties

Lecture 40 4-5 Properties palette

Lecture 41 4-6 Inserting center lines and center marks

Section 5: Annotation, Measurements, Plotting

Lecture 42 5-1 Measuring in drawings

Lecture 43 5-2 Creating Texts

Lecture 44 5-3 Inserting dimensions

Lecture 45 5-4 Modifying the dimensions' style

Lecture 46 5-5 Inserting and modifying Leaders

Lecture 47 5-6 Creating new dimension and leader styles

Lecture 48 5-7 Creating tables

Lecture 49 5-8 Plotting directly from model space

Lecture 50 5-9 Plotting using Layouts

The course is designed for both beginners and seasoned users. A beginner can start learning the software right from scratch by following the course along just from lesson one, while a seasoned AutoCAD user can choose the topics, which they wish to learn about and skip the basics.