AutoCAD Online Training – Course Content

This comprehensive AutoCAD training takes you from beginner to proficient CAD user with step-by-step lessons, hands-on exercises, and real-world projects. You’ll master 2D drafting, 3D modeling, dimensioning, layouts, printing, and much more.

Chapter 1: Introduction to AutoCAD

• Installing AutoCAD

• Getting Started with AutoCAD

• Starting a New Drawing File (scratch, template, wizard)

• Working with Drawing Components: Application Menu, Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon, InfoCenter, Command Line, ViewCube, Navigation Bar, Status Bar

• Working with Workspaces and Sheet Sets

• Saving, Opening, and Sharing Drawing Files

Chapter 2: Creating Drawings – I

• Setting up Drawing Units, Limits, Grid, and Snap Settings

• Understanding Coordinate Systems: Cartesian and Polar

• Drawing Basics: Lines, Circles, Arcs

• Editing Tools: Cancel, Erase, Restore

• Navigation Tools: Zoom, Pan

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 3: Working with Drawing Aids and Layers

• Ortho Mode, Polar Tracking, Object Snap, and Tracking

• Working with Layers: Create, Assign, Modify, Freeze, Lock, Delete

• Assigning Objects to Layers

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 4: Creating Drawings – II

• Drawing Rectangles, Polygons, Polylines, Ellipses, Spline, Donuts, and Construction Lines

• Defining Points and Point Styles

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 5: Modifying and Editing Drawings – I

• Object Selection Methods

• Trimming, Extending, Arrays, Mirroring

• Fillets, Chamfers, Offsetting, Moving, Copying, Rotating, Scaling, Stretching, Lengthening

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 6: Working with Dimensions and Dimension Styles

• Dimension Components and Styles

• Creating, Modifying, and Overriding Dimension Styles

• Applying Linear, Aligned, Angular, Arc Length, Radius, Diameter, Jogged, Ordinate, Baseline, and Continue Dimensions

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 7: Editing Dimensions and Adding Text

• Editing Dimensions using DIMEDIT, DIMTEDIT, DDEDIT, Grips, and Properties Palette

• Changing Text Position, Extension Lines, and Oblique Angles

• Adding and Modifying Text: Single Line and Multiline Text, Text Styles

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 8: Modifying and Editing Drawings – II

• Editing Objects using Grips and Properties Palette

• Matching Properties, Identifying Coordinates

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 9: Creating Hatches and Gradients

• Creating Hatches and Gradients

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 10: Working with Blocks and Xrefs

• Creating and Inserting Blocks

• Creating WBlocks and Dynamic Blocks

• Working with External References (Xrefs)

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 11: Working with Layouts

• Paper Space and Layouts Overview

• Adding, Renaming, Deleting Layouts

• Working with Viewports: Creating, Editing, Clipping, Locking, Controlling Layers and Display

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 12: Printing and Plotting

• Configuring Plotters and Plot Styles

• Setting Default Plot Styles

• Plotting Drawings

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives

Chapter 13: Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models

• 3D Modeling Workspace

• Creating 3D Primitives: Box, Cylinder, Cone, Sphere, Pyramid, Wedge, Torus

• Working with WCS and UCS, Dynamic UCS

• Creating Features: Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, Loft, Presspull

• Boolean Operations, Copying Edges, Modifying Solids

• Tutorials and Hands-on Test Drives