Advanced AutoCAD Training Course: All In One

Rotate views with the dview twist to precise angles, preserving the model while adjusting the paper space view. Use vports to create multiple viewports for synchronized 2d and 3d perspectives.

Explore advanced navigation tools in AutoCAD to quickly pan, zoom, orbit, and orient views, using the nav bar, navigation wheel, and show motion commands.

Discover how to manage files and commands in AutoCAD using the application menu, the big ready, to open drawings, draw lines and arcs, save work, and search commands.

Enhance AutoCAD speed by using two-handed CAD with mouse and keyboard, leveraging the command line and shortcuts, and customizing aliases and dynamic input for faster commands.

Learn to use construction lines and rays in AutoCAD to project features to infinity, supporting isometric drawing and multi-view projection with trim and match properties.

Learn how to use the AutoCAD multilines command to draw 1–16 parallel elements as a single object, customize style, justification, offset, scale, colors, caps, and joints, with practical applications.

Master advanced AutoCAD polyline and spline editing with grips, adding or removing vertices and converting between arc and line. Explore pedit workflows and control vertices for shaping splines.

Learn how to organize AutoCAD line work with groups, understand how groups differ from blocks, and manage group selection, editing, and quick access to grouped objects.

Explore the world coordinate system in AutoCAD, a Cartesian framework with x, y, and z coordinates and origin zero, used for consistent file-to-file references.

Master the align command in AutoCAD to move, rotate, and scale objects using two or three reference points for precise alignment with existing line work.

Learn to lengthen lines and arcs in AutoCAD with the lengthen command and grip edits, using delta, total, percent, and dynamic options for precise endpoints and radius.

Master the join command in AutoCAD to combine lines, arcs, and 3D polylines into a single object, mindful of same plane, elevation, and object-type restrictions.

Learn to create and edit revision clouds in AutoCAD using the red cloud command, choosing rectangle, polygon, or freehand styles, adjusting arc length, and converting objects.

Learn how to use the quick select tool to filter objects by type and properties, such as text color and layer, to quickly select, modify, or move many items.

Learn how to create, save for later use, and apply object selection filters in AutoCAD, using criteria such as block name, layer, line type, and position to quickly select objects.

Rename and standardize names for blocks, layers, styles, and dimensions to ensure seamless file integration. Use the rename tool to adjust external data and fix conflicts through the dialog.

Master AutoCAD’s divide and measure tools to place evenly spaced or distance-based point objects along circles, arcs, lines, and polylines, and apply them to tasks like fence posts.

Discover how AutoCAD quick calc handles area and length calculations, unit conversions, and copying results for reports, coordinates, distances, and angles.

Learn to use select similar to quickly pick objects of the same type and layer, then add selected to set the current layer and start a new command.

Learn to use advanced AutoCAD tools to create a road centerline, rename a block to traffic light, and place lights every ten miles using measure, join, and copy.

Learn to manage busy AutoCAD drawings by isolating layers or objects to show only what you need, with options to hide others.

Explore how to use AutoCAD transparency to fade hatch patterns and underlying lines, manage transparency by layer or object, and preview plots with plot transparency enabled.

Explore how AutoCAD uses viewports and annotation scale to keep dashed lines consistent across model space and paper space, and when needed adjust the line type scale for specific objects.

Control AutoCAD object visibility by mastering draw order to reveal lines and hatch patterns, using bring to front, send to back, and hatch to back to optimize printing.

Explore AutoCAD's advanced text tools, including multi-line text, bullets and numbering, spell check, and find and replace in the text editor.

Import text from a plain text file in AutoCAD to obtain raw, unformatted notes with no formatting, styles, or layers, avoiding project-specific copies and easing note use.

Learn how fields in AutoCAD link text to object data to display real-time area and other properties, with field dialogs, formatting options, and sheet set integration.

Master advanced AutoCAD table features for survey data, including formatting, locking cells, area calculations, fields, and formulas, with options to bring in and sync Excel data via paste special.

Explore annotative scaling in AutoCAD to keep text at a paper height across viewport scales. Use annotated text styles, paper text height, and annotated scales for consistent notes.

Learn to create annotated dimension styles, set annotation scales, place and scale a table, and compute areas with fields to present data from an ice rink drawing at any scale.

Manage AutoCAD sheet sets, batch print, and enable cross-department collaboration, while organizing properties and custom fields to automate naming and publish across drawings.

Learn to create AutoCAD sheet sets from scratch, from a template, or from existing drawings, and manage them with the sheet set manager for efficient project organization.

Learn to pull sheet set data into drawings using fields, including sheet titles, sheet numbers, and custom properties, with steps to insert and preview these fields.

Configure a template sheet set in AutoCAD by defining drawing properties and custom properties, then propagate those fields across all sheets via the sheet set manager.

Use the AutoCAD sheet set manager to organize drawings with subsets and create new sheets using templates. Explore sheet views and model views to navigate to named views and layouts.

Publish entire sheet sets efficiently by using sheet set manager, page set up overrides, and publish options to pdf, dwf, or plots, with subset controls and background processing.

Learn to print AutoCAD drawings using pc three files, adjust plot settings for pdf output or printers, and save temporary or permanent changes to plots with dpi and vector quality.

Explore how CTB plot styles control line weights and colors in AutoCAD, including how to customize 255 colors, apply black for monochrome, and ensure consistent prints across sheets.

Learn to plot with STB files by configuring plot styles, using object color, and applying screening to control output, with fewer plot styles than CTB.

Explore AutoCAD publisher to batch print multiple drawings, manage sheet sets, and apply page setups, save and load sheet lists, and publish to DWF or PDF with optional plot stamps.

Explore AutoCAD's animation output by creating a camera path around a 3D house, recording as a video in AVI format with adjustable frames per second and resolution.

Learn how to use the xref manager in AutoCAD to link external data from surveyors, architects, and engineers, enabling model space references and collaborative sheet drawings.

AutoCAD cannot handle circular references; learn to manage referenced files by using attachment versus overlay to control loaded data in the XREF manager.

Use the xref manager in AutoCAD to collaborate by referencing files drawn by layer. Control display with the layer manager, freezing layers and adjusting colors, line types, and scale.

Learn how binding an external reference converts it into a block, adds missing layers with prefixes, and how inserting preserves layers without prefixes, using the movie house example.

Use the xclip command in AutoCAD to clip xref references, creating rectangular or polygon boundaries to show only the needed portion of a drawing.

Learn how to manage xrefs in AutoCAD, including referencing DWF, PDFs, images, and other file types, and master clipping, fade, brightness, and draw order to integrate external data.

Learn to import and manage PDF data in AutoCAD, including geometry, true type font, and raster images, configure import options, preserve layers, and use PDF underlays for collaboration.

Explore how AutoCAD treats all data as objects and links external text and spreadsheet data from OLE objects via paste special, including Word and Excel references, with dynamic updates.

Learn to manage AutoCAD references with relative paths using the external references manager, including adding drawings, nested xrefs, editing paths, and find and replace.

Use AutoCAD's data extraction to count materials and build a bill of materials from drawings, by measuring wall lengths and tallying blocks such as chairs, doors, and windows.

Dynamic blocks convert standard blocks into flexible, resizable elements with grip arrows and stretch, enabling quick design adjustments. Use tool palettes, insertion, and attributed blocks across imperial and metric settings.

Insert dynamic blocks in a drawing to quickly place doors and windows, copy and adjust them, flip orientations, and modify properties on the fly for bulk changes.

Create a dynamic block in a new AutoCAD file by defining a linear parameter and a stretch action, then test and insert it for scalable sizing.

Master dynamic blocks by configuring parameters, actions, and parameter sets. Navigate visibility states, block editors, and scale operations to adjust geometry with dimensional constraints and block tables.

Master dynamic blocks in AutoCAD by testing with the test block tool in the block editor, adding a linear stretch parameter, and troubleshooting selection sets to ensure correct behavior.

Master dynamic blocks in AutoCAD by building a multi-style north arrow block with visibility states, an attribute, and a rotate action for flexible, on-demand orientation.

Explore how parametric constraints turn line work into programmable geometry using geometric and dimensional constraints. See how changing constraints updates bolt-hole diameters in inches and keeps views synchronized.

Explore AutoCAD parametric constraints by applying dimensional constraints to lock lengths and distances, and enforce geometric relationships like coincident, parallel, perpendicular, horizontal, and vertical.

Explore AutoCAD parametric constraints by applying dimensional and geometric constraints, using the auto-constraint feature and inferred constraints to fully constrain shapes, and learn to add, delete, or show/hide constraints.

Explore how parametric constraints shape designs in AutoCAD, using geometric and dimensional constraints within dynamic blocks to drive a block table and controlled geometry.

Master AutoCAD parametric constraints using the parameters manager to create dimensional constraints and formulas, linking bolthole diameter to the circle's diameter so changing one value updates related geometry.