AutoCAD for beginners.

This course is designed to help students create their own 2D technical drawings in no time.   

This is a 2D AutoCAD course for beginners. All video lectures are recorded with AutoCAD 2024 for Windows. If you have a Mac, you can also use the same instructions, but when in a video we activate a command from the ribbon, you can activate them from menus or from the command line, or just typing in the command's name on your keyboard.

To do exercises you can download .dwg files and watch videos two times. First time you watch to get the information. Second time - to watch and repeat after me, creating and modifying your own drawings. 

The course consists of 6 sections.

Section 1 is Introduction. It gives a general information about this course.

Section 2 explains the user interface, how to create files, change background color, what are workspaces, and so on.

Sections 3 helps understand how to work with the mouse, how to pan and zoom, how to select objects.

Section 4 introduces the most important drawing tools.  We work with such commands as: Line, Polyline, Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon, Spline, Hatch, Boundary, Wipeout.

Section 5 deals with modifying objects. In this section we learn such commands as: Move, Rotate, Copy, Trim, Extend, Explode, Fillet, Offset, Chamfer, Stretch, Scale, Lengthen, Array, Align

Section 6 is a practical work. Here we create a drawing and print it to PDF.