Free online courseAutoCAD for beginners

Course Description

AutoCAD for Beginners is an extensive and meticulously designed course tailored for individuals seeking to master AutoCAD Architecture. Spanning over 21 hours and 39 minutes, the course provides an in-depth introduction to the capabilities and functions of AutoCAD Architecture 2017.

The course starts with the basics, covering the fundamental concepts of drafting and the various types of drafting. Students will then be guided through the process of downloading, installing, and activating AutoCAD Architecture, including obtaining the necessary product keys. The focus then shifts to customizing the AutoCAD workplace, exploring the user interface, and understanding how to navigate the workspace effectively.

As the course progresses, learners will delve into setting units, scales, and limits within AutoCAD, and become proficient in using essential commands like Zoom All, Zoom Extend, and Line commands. The curriculum ensures that learners are well-equipped to handle more advanced drawing tools including the Polyline, XL Line, Construction Line, Spline, and Ray commands. The course also provides training in Urdu/Hindi to cater to a wider audience.

Practical applications are a cornerstone of this training. Students will learn to open and manage new files, export and print AutoCAD files, use drawing utilities, and master publishing techniques. Drawing techniques for arcs, circles, rectangles, angular lines, polygons, donuts, and helixes are covered comprehensively, ensuring that students can create a wide variety of shapes with precision.

The course covers AutoCAD's dimensioning capabilities, enabling learners to apply linear dimensions, change dimension styles, and adjust dimension settings to suit various project requirements. Commands such as Boundary, Regin, and multiple dimension spacing and tolerance commands are also explored.

Further, the training ensures that students can reset AutoCAD settings as needed and introduces them to a range of point commands, block commands, ellipse commands, and revision cloud commands. The curriculum expands to include drafting techniques using Hatch and Gradient commands, and explores object styles, colors, and outlines. Students are tutored on adding multiline text and adjusting multiline settings, as well as matching properties, moving, and rotating objects.

The advanced stages of the course delve into more complex commands such as Fillet, Chamfer, Erase, Copy, Trim, Extend, Explode, Offset, Mirror, Scale, Stretch, Lengthen, and various array commands. Full video lectures facilitate a complete understanding of these functions. Techniques for aligning, spacing, centering, dividing, repositioning, obscuring, cropping, merging, and subtracting commands are also covered in detail.

Comprehensive training on working within the view and layer tabs, text commands, dimensions, leaders, and revision marks equip students with the skills required to manage complex projects. Advanced AutoCAD tools like transparency, distance measurement, area, angle, volume, sectioning, and elevation are covered extensively.

Students will also learn about inserting tables, grouping and ungrouping objects, setting object snaps, polar tracking, angle settings, and incremental angle settings. They will master working on the reference panel within the insert tab and point cloud options. Training on block attributes, import options, content location, and geometric panels provide a robust foundation for hands-on application.

Moving further into 3D modeling, the course teaches the creation of various 3D shapes, including boxes, cylinders, cones, spheres, and pyramids. The use of extrude, loft, revolve, and sweep commands, as well as adding a 3D modeling workspace, ensures a solid grasp of 3D functionalities. Learners will explore polysolid, planer surface, press-pull commands, and techniques to smooth objects.