Introduction to AutoCAD
Get familiar with the AutoCAD interface and toolset, and gain a solid understand of how to use AutoCAD to bring your ideas to life with ease and precision. Software required: AutoCAD.
What you'll learn
In this set of tutorials we'll learn how to use AutoCAD. We'll begin by getting familiar with the User Interface. We'll discuss how things are broken down into tabs, ribbons, and panels and we'll take a look at the 2D and 3D user interface and tools we have accessible to us. Once we've get comfortable with the interface, we'll then look at the how to use your drawing, modification and annotation tools in both the 2D and 3D work spaces. Along the way we'll discuss a few tips that will help you work with precision when creating your drawings. By the end of this training you'll have a solid understand of how to to use AutoCAD to bring your ideas to life with ease and precision. Software required: AutoCAD.
Table of contents
- The AutoCAD User Interface 8m
- Continuing with the Interface 7m
- Using the Navigation and Status Bar 6m
- Drawing with the Line Tool 8m
- Specifying Length and Angles 9m
- Working with Polylines 9m
- Modifying Line Work 8m
- Using Fillet, Scale and Array 10m
- Drawing a Small Space 9m
- Applying Hatch Patterns to Drawings 10m
- Using Layers to Organize Your Drawings 7m
- Working with Layer Properties 6m
- Layer Visibility 4m
- Adding Dimensions and Text to Your Drawings 10m
- Getting Familiar with 3D Functionality 7m
- Making Shapes in the 3D Basics Workspace 7m
- Getting Familiar with the 3D Modeling Workspace 8m
- Surface Modeling 5m
- Mesh Modeling 6m
- Taking a Look at the Rendering Capabilities 6m
About the author
Pierre is a Pluralsight training pioneer. Since becoming the first CAD and BIM author at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company), Pierre has played a major role in building the training library. With a productive background in the CAD industry, working as everything from a drafter to project manager, Pierre has long had a passion for the creativity and hard work that goes into designing architectural projects. Pierre is proud to be able to share his mastery of Revit and AutoCAD with the P... more