Autocad - Complete tutorial for beginners (Full tutorial 1h40m)

This is a complete tutorial for beginners in Autocad.

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Exercises to practice:
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Notes:
25:31 - should be "anti-clockwise" instead of "clockwise"

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Contents:

PART 1
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Autocad display
02:47 Commands and tools
06:10 Mouse (buttons function and selecting objects)

09:43 Learn to draw lines
10:26 Draw a horizontal line
12:14 Draw a line with a specific length
13:35 Orthomode
14:06 Draw a line with an angle
15:49 Polylines
16:49 Object Snap (use precision in your drawings)
19:13 Object Snap tracking

21:10 PART 2
Other drawing commands
21:19 Rectangle
22:54 Circle
24:36 Arc

25:34 Modifying objects
25:56 Move
27:01 Copy
27:36 Rotate
29:03 Offset
31:21 Trim
34:06 Extend
36:06 Mirror
38:07 Editing objects using grips
40:27 Exercises 2

40:56 PART 3

41:24 Set up units
43:46 Layers
45:03 Create a new layer
45:46 Turn off a layer
46:18 Move an object to a different layer
46:50 Isolate layers

48:23 Blocks
49:28 Create a block
51:21 Edit a block

52:11 Print a project
52:58 Set up paper size
55:03 Change size of viewport
55:19 Set up the scale
56:10 Hide the viewport
57:08 Print with different colors

58:23 Insert text
58:37 Single line text
59:29 Multiline text

1:00:32 PART 4
1:01:21 Scale objects
1:01:38 Scale factor
1:02:44 Scale with a Reference
1:03:19 Attach an image (...and scale it)
1:06:04 Import a PDF file
1:08:44 Stretch command
1:11:07 Hatch command

1:15:12 PART 5

Array objects
1:15:16 Rectangular Array
1:18:54 Polar array
1:21:43 Path Array

1:24:58 Explode Objects
Utilities panel
1:26:28 Quick Measure
1:26:38 Distance
1:27:53 Radius
1:28:03 Angle
1:28:21 Area
1:29:18 Quick Select
1:30:09 Select all
1:30:25 Calculator

1:30:43 PART 6
Dimension Lines
1:31:25 Linear dimensions
1:31:57 Dimension Style Manager
1:33:30 Other dimension types (Aligned, Angular, Radius...)

Tips and peculiarities
1:36:20 DimLayer
1:37:36 Snaps on arrows
1:38:36 Dimension styles

Licence:
The video shows the version 2020 of AutoCAD® and it is used exclusively for educational purposes.
Autodesk screen shots reprinted courtesy of Autodesk, Inc.
The narration and all the illustrations were created by CAD in Black.

[ryanmccue]

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[IrishEyes]

I've been an AutoCad user since Dec 1992. Was looking for a beginner's tutorial for new employees and this will work perfectly. Plus it is a good refresher course for experienced CAD users also. Thanks for taking the time to put this tutorial together. Have subscribed to your channel.

[fogyw]

Drawing from 4 years on AutoCad, but i still learned something from the "beginner tutorial" :D Nice job :D

[pauln]

WOW!! I'm at a global top 10 university for engineering and this tutorial is better than what my university has been teaching me. I'm really impressed thank you so much I think so many more people would understand how to use Autocad if the professor had just said go watch this tutorial online.



Thank you this is great!!!!

[absinth]

Haven't used AutoCAD since 2012. Came here to see how AUTOCAD looks after one decade. And it's looks amazing.

[giantpickle]

Thank you so much! I've been offered an internship by my dad if I can learn CAD Drafting. This was excellently put together. I really appreciated the exercises. The captions also helped me a lot.

[patrickwang]

Great video. Haven't used AutoCAD for nearly 2 years and the memory has started to come back while I was watching it. Thank you very much.

[alaaeddinkamel]

It's phenomenal to learn the basics. I would like to see series of tutorials specifically for architectural designs if this is possible. Thank you!

[nemesiscreativity]

A most appreciated tutorial. There's a ton to learn here and thank you for putting together such an easy to follow work-flow. For a first timer like me it is incredibly helpful.

[akilandharmalingam]

I am an engineering student your videos are helped me lot. Thanks for you effort and work for us.

[nsibukadavid]

Oh! i think this is the best teacher i have seen in a very long time, thank you so much

[andrewgrant]

TNice tutorials is one of the best intro soft softs I've ever seen. The entire basic worksoftow with no B.S.!

[anthonyrmay]

This is brilliant. I'm just coming back to using CAD and the simplicity of your explanations is stiring my brain cells amazingly. Thanks

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[danielwahyutalenta]

i like how his video doesn't use any annoying flashy distracting background music like other creators :))

[joscha]

Finally a video where i can see the guys mouse, he says words clearly and actually SHOWS how to open stuf like the soft roll instead of

[TheHiddenPearl]

at first, i picked a tutorial from Udemy for autocad for beginners as I am, they instead took me to their website and made me register everything for a series of free autocad tutorial for beginners; I am OK, I did everything they requested. But, when i started the class.something really wrong, the audio is terrible that I could barely hear or understand what the instructor says, then I checked with the comments, it has been like this for many years and still has not fixed, it turns out just another scheme of advertisement and wasted my time! I notice the people from India take control of technology work in America, but they are somehow subtle discrimination against other nationality even the same Asian origin as they are.
I found this video and really like it with the details and easy to understand what the instructor explain with illustrations, although he has an accent (who does not have?), but I am sure we can all understand, rather than all the people from India with the accents that is very hard to hear including the Udemy I described above adding into terrible sound quality.
thanks a lot for making this quality video for learning. I subscribed to your channel to support you.

[munchy]

Thank you so much for this, you saved me a lot of hours looking through a 200 page AutoCAD handbook, when all I needed to do is watch your video. <3

[juniorokombo]

this is amazing. you're one in a million. I'm really learning a lot

[ernestdunwoody]

Thank you for speaking clearly, slowly and being steady and deliberate with your explanation.
Most other AutoCAD tutorials are terrible because they are spoken in English but with a very thick foreign accent (can't understand), too quickly or in ahigh pitched voice which I also can not hear or understand.