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AutoCAD with Beginner-Friendly and Practical Lessons

Name: AutoCAD with Beginner-Friendly and Practical Lessons
Rating: 4.7 (154 reviews)

A Beginner-Friendly Course with Straightforward Explanations, Covering 2D to 3D Modeling with Practical Exercises

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Created byFábio Sánchez

Last updated 5/2026

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Draw with Accuracy in Every project
Simple Exercises to Get Comfortable with Layers and Commands
Practical Tips to Avoid Common AutoCAD Mistakes
Familiarize yourself with the Autocad Interface for Efficient Navigation.

Course content

11 sections • 103 lectures • 8h 31m total length

Welcome to this course!2:02
What you will learn:
Introduction
Playback speed, Q&A, Notes
Ending: Master Autocad needs Practice
Autocad Display5:18
Navigate the AutoCAD home screen, choose acad or acadISO templates, and access tools in the ribbon to start new drawings, open projects, and manage model and layout views.
About Commands and Tools3:13
Mouse Navigation5:32
Drawing Lines and Polylines6:45
What you will learn here:
Draw Lines
Ortho Mode
Draw Line with Angle
Polar Tracking
Draw Polylines
Object Snap6:31
What you will learn here:
Object Snap (technique do draw with accuracy)
Endpoint, Midpoint, Object Snap Tracking and Intersection
Centre, Geommetric Center
Switch on/off Autotrack (Object Snap Tracking)
Perpendicular, Quadrant, Nearest
Exercises to Practice
Circles and Arcs5:17
What you will learn here:
Learn different Methods to Draw Circles and Arcs
Rectangle, Polygon and Ellipse3:03
Accelerate drawing rectangles with the rectangle command by two-point coordinates or dimensions, and explore polygons and ellipses with inscribed vs circumscribed options and center-based ellipses.
Splines1:05
About the Utilities Panel4:36
What you will learn here:
Measure Tool: Quick Measure; Distance; Radius; Angle; Area
Quick Select
Select All
Quick Calculator

Move, Copy, Rotate3:25
What you will learn here:
About the Modifying Commands
How to use Move
How to use Copy
How to use Rotate
Offset3:29
What you will learn here:
Offset in a Line and in a Polyline
Offset: Multiple, Through
Trim and Extend2:19
What you will learn here:
Trim and Extend got an update in Autocad 2021
Command Trim and Extend
Select Boundary Edges
Mirror2:04
What you will learn here:
How to Use Mirror
Command Mirror Tips
Fillet and Chamfer2:42
What you will learn here:
Learn to Use the Command Fillets and Chamfer
Specify Distances and Radius
Change the Trim option
Stretch2:12
What you will learn here:
Learn to Use the Command Stretch
How to Scale2:13
What you will learn here:
How to Scale Objects
Specify the Scale Factor
Insert a Scale with a Reference
Rectangular Array3:34
What you will learn here:
How to Use Rectangular Array
Edit Array (Array Creation Tab)
Use Grips to Change Distances or the Number of Elements
Polar Array2:47
What you will learn here:
How to Use Polar Array
Edit Items
Interesting Tips
Path Array3:14
What you will learn here:
How to Use Path Array
Edit the Base Point
Use the Option "Tangent/Direction"
OSNAP mode: Geometrical Center
Explode Objects1:24
What you will learn here:
Explode Objects and learn which elements can be exploded
Using Grips in Objects2:42
What you will learn here:
Grips in Lines
Grips in Polylines
Exercises to Practice 2

Editing Units3:21
What you will learn here:
Autocad uses Adimensional Units
Unit Properties Windows (Length, Angle, Units in Insertion Scale)
Layers4:54
What you will learn here:
What is a Layer
Layer Properties
Create a New Layer
Turn On/Off and Freeze Layers
Important Tips about Layers
Blocks (Combining Objects into One)4:00
What you will learn here:
How to Create a Block and Learn Important Tips
Edit Blocks
Hatch4:03
What you will learn here:
Create a Hatch in an enclosed area
Hatch Editor: Choose Pattern; Transparency; Change the Scale
Colors, Line-weights and Line-types (Properties Panel)7:38
What you will learn here:
Change the Color of an Object
Edit Colors in Blocks
Line-Weights and Line-Types
Attach and Scale Images2:20
What you will learn here:
Attach an image and Scale it
Use a length as a reference
Insert PDF files2:39
What you will learn here:
Attach a PDF file
Edit Import Options
What is True Type Text
Tips about Importing Layers
External References5:42
What you will learn here:
Attach a Reference to the File
Unload and Load References
Design Center5:12
What you will learn here:
Open the Design Center
Insert Blocks from Other Files
Block Units
Tool Palettes and Blocks Palette7:21
What you will learn here:
About Tool Palettes
Learn to Use the Sample Files
How to Customize the Tool Palettes

Use the Grid and Snap Mode5:10
What you will learn here:
Change Grid Colors (in Options)
Use the Snap Mode
Edit Grid and Snap Settings
Exercise
Grid and Snap: Settings and Tips3:48
What you will learn here:
Grid Spacing
Replace a Drawing to Match the Grid Lines
Isometric Drafting2:14
Rotate UCS1:17
What you will learn:
Move and Rotate UCS, to draw in a rotated plan.
Mastering the Right-Click Menu5:58
What you will learn here:
Selection Menu (No Object Selected)
Repeat Last Command
Clipboard (Copy, Cut, Paste)
Isolate Objects
Pan, Zoom, Steering Wheels
Quick Select; Quick Calc
Options
Selection Menu in a Block and Other Blocks
Draw Order
Group
OSNAP Overrides (Perpendicular, Neares, Mid between 2 points)
Edit a Polyline2:08
Linetype Scales3:30
Use Construction Lines, Rays, Points2:48
What You Will Learn:
Spline Fit and Spline CV
XLine (Construction Line)
Ray and Point

How to Draw Dimension Lines5:12
What you will learn here:
Insert Dimension Lines
Dimension Style Manager
Dimension Line Styles
Dimension Tools (Continue, Baseline, Jog)4:58
Dimension Space and Dimension Break and Other Tips7:33
Dimension Tips and Peculiarities3:53
What you will learn here:
DimLayer
How to Ignore Snaps in Arrows
Dimension Styles
Inserting Text2:08
What you will learn here:
Single Line Text
Multiline Text
Using the Text Editor
Multileaders6:52
What you will learn here:
Insert Multileaders
Multileader Style Manager
Check Out the Multileaders Quick Properties
Multileader types: Block; Multiline Text
When Updating a Multileader Style -> Insert Multileader again!

Customize the Layout and Printing6:52
What you will learn here:
How to Print from the Layout Tabs
Model Space and Paper Space
About Viewports
Edit the Page Setup Manager
Create Extra Viewports3:21
What you will learn here:
Layout tab in the Ribbon
Add Extra Viewports (Rectangular, Polygonal, Object)
Lock the Viewport
Add Texts to the Layouts
Exercise - Part 1: Create a Titleblock8:48
Exercise - Part 2: Insert Viewports and Create a Template3:29

Annotative Text3:15
What you will learn here:
What are Annotative Elements
Insert an Anntotive Text
Annotative Dimensions2:09
What you will learn here:
Insert Annotative Dimensions
Edit Annotative Style
Set Scales (both in Model and in Viewport)
Change VP Color in the Viewport
Annotative Blocks4:49
What you will learn here:
Insert an Annotative Block.
Annotative Blocks are good for Creating Symbols (Sockets)
Add Scales in the Block Reference Properties
Exercise: Annotative Dimensions - Part 111:07
What you will learn here:
Set a Dimension Layer
Draw Lines with angle and use Mirror
Add Linear, Angular, Radius Dimensions
Use Linetype Scale
Annotative Scaling
Exercise: Annotative Dimensions - Part 24:12
Learn how annotative scaling works in AutoCAD: display only the dimensions that match the viewport scale, auto-update with viewport changes, and manage annotation scales for dimensions.

Introduction to 3D Modelling7:49
What you will learn:
Switching Workspaces
Add a 3rd dimension to a 2D object
Visual Styles
Viewpoints and UCS coordinates
About the Dynamic UCS2:34
What you will learn:
Move and Align the UCS icon
Toggle On/Off Dynamic UCS
Viewports in Model Space3:07
What you will learn:
How to Configure Viewports in the Model Space
Solid Primitives (Box, Cylinder and Cone)2:33
Learn to create solid primitives in AutoCAD, including a box, cylinder, and cone, using 3D perspective and orthographic viewports to understand their positions.
Extrude and Presspull3:16
Master extrude and press pull to add a third dimension to 2d objects. Convert splines and lines to surfaces or solids, with mode options for surface or solid.
3D polyline1:09
Union, Subtract, Intersect (Boolean Operations)4:03
Loft3:42
Learn to create solids in AutoCAD using loft by cross sections, surfaces, points, and paths. Explore ordering of selections, using rectangles, circles, and spline with ucs adjustments for precise lofting.
Revolve2:40
Slice3:14
Solid Edit4:58
3D Rotate, 3D Move, 3D Mirror4:45
Master 3D rotate, 3D move, and 3D mirror in AutoCAD, using gizmos and axes to set base points, specify angles, move in planes, and define mirror planes.
Exercise 13:39
Exercise 23:17
Exercise 33:38
Exercise 44:28

Command Zoom and Create a Custom View5:13
What you will learn here:
Use Different Zoom Options: All, Extends, Center, Window.
Create a Custom View (View Manager)
Useful Tips about Layers3:59
Useful Tips about Texts4:15
What you will learn here:
Issue: Text style not showing
Fields in Texts3:33
What you will learn here:
Insert a Field to Calculate the Area of a Polyline
Create Attributes to Blocks9:49
What you will learn here:
How to Define Attributes
Useful Tips about Attributes
How to Create a Block with Attributes
Edit Attributes in a Block Reference
Exercise about Attributes
Block Attribute Manager
Dynamic Blocks I: Linear Parameter2:19
Master dynamic blocks in AutoCAD by adding a linear parameter and a stretch action to a window block, adjusting length via base point, action points, and the stretch frame.
Dynamic Blocks II: Flip Parameter2:45
Dynamic Blocks III: Align Parameter2:40
Dynamic Blocks IV: Visibility Parameter3:29

Status Bar, a Quick Review9:59
Colors of Interface Elements4:24
Learn to customize AutoCAD colors for model space elements by using the options window, drafting tab, and autoSnap colors, then preview changes and reset to defaults or classic colors.
Use Blocks from Sample Files6:03
Convert the Units of a Project (milimeters to Inches)9:04
Organize your Workspace using 2 Screens0:57
Edit: change pronunciation of Palettes
What you will learn here:
Organize Panels, Palettes in your Screens (Only this one AND cOMBINE WITH TIPS) Use a computer with two screens
Create your own Templates (Layers, Layout tabs) (Not Necessary)
Create a title block (Not necessary)
Create your own Templates5:36
What You Will Learn:
Keep dimstyles, textstyles
How to save as a template
Purge unnecessary Blocks
Thank you!1:00
Celebrate completing the course and solidify your AutoCAD skills by practicing with your own projects. Share feedback, revisit lessons, and use the Q&A to enhance your mastery.

Requirements

Autocad 2018 or a newer version (recommended)
No previous experience with AutoCAD is required! This course is designed for first-time users.
Undestanding of Basic Geometry Skills – such as shapes, measurements, and spatial relationships.

Description

Update: 24-07-2025: Extra exercises added in the extra chapter 11.

The course is designed to learn Autocad in a beginner-friendly way with direct and easy to understand explanations.

In the first two sections, students will learn to use the different tools do draw and modify objects, one by one. We will focus on using the maximum accuracy possible, which is something fundamental in Autocad.

Additionally, we’ll cover important topics such as Layers, Blocks, Attaching External Content or Plotting.

This knowledge will give you strong skills to work on various types of projects.

By the end of the course, we will introduce to 3D modelling and explore advanced techniques such as Dynamic Blocks, Attributes to Blocks and Fields. We will conclude with additional tips which can be useful for students.

I have structured this course so that students can learn effectively, regardless of their Autocad version.

To support your learning, exercise files are included in some lessons, so you can apply what you've learned right away.

As a final thought, keep this in mind: Mastering Autocad takes time, as this is a quite complex program and requires a lot of practice. If you stay patient and committed you will get there.

If you decide to join this course I'll be really grateful. I wish you a great learning experience.

Who this course is for:

Beginners: Anyone seeking to learn Autocad with direct and beginner-friendly explanations.

AutoCAD with Beginner-Friendly and Practical Lessons

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Course content

Introduction and Basic Drawing Commands10 lectures • 43min

Modifying Commands12 lectures • 32min

Layers, Blocks and Important Features10 lectures • 47min

Drafting Techniques8 lectures • 27min

Annotation in Autocad6 lectures • 31min

About Layout tabs4 lectures • 23min

Annotative Elements5 lectures • 26min

Introduction to 3D Modelling16 lectures • 59min

Intermediate Techniques9 lectures • 38min

Additional Tips and Tools7 lectures • 37min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: