AutoCAD is a 2-D and 3-D computer-aided drafting software application used in architecture, construction and manufacturing to assist in the preparation of blueprints and other engineering plans. Professionals who use AutoCAD are often referred to as drafters.

Learning Touch Points
Screen layout

• Cascading menu
• Ribbon
• Drawing Area
• UCS Icon
• Command Line
• Model space and Layout tabs
• Drawing aids

Basic construction elements

• Point
• Line
• Circle
• Arc
• Rectangle

Basic construction elements

• Copy
• Rotate
• Scale
• Trim
• Extend
• Offset
• Mirror
• Fillet

Basic view commands

• Zoom
• Pan
• Regen

Selection methods

• Window
• Crossing

Accurate drawing methods

• Ortho command
• Osnap command
• Grips
• Setting Units
• Snap
• Grid
• Cartesian coordinate system
• Geometric Data Entry

Accurate drawing methods

• Area
• Distance
• Radius
• Angle
• Page set up manager

Accurate drawing methods

• Introduction
• Pline (Polyline), Pedit
• Xline (Construction Line)
• Mline (Multi Line), Mlstyle, Mledit
• Sheet sets, Selection sheets, Selection methods
• Stretch, System Variables, Tables, Tool Palette
• UCS and cross hair rotation, Window tiling, Wipe out

Blocks, Wblocks, Purge

• Creating and working with blocks
• Retain, convert and delete options
• Inserting blocks
• Purge

Arrays

• Creating Rectangular arrays
• Polar arrays
• Path arrays

Plotting and Printing

• What printer or plotter to use
• What paper size to use
• What area to plot
• What scale to plot
• What pen settings to use
• What orientation to use

Layers, Colors and Properties

• What are layers?
• Why use them?
• Creating and deleting layers
• Making a layer current layer
• Assigning colors to layers
• Freezing / Thawing layers
• Locking / unlocking layers

Linetypes and Properties

• Introduction to line types
• Loading linetype box and choosing line types
• Properties and matching properties

Text, Mtext, Editing and Style

• Text, Mtext, Style
• Properties and Application of text
• Editing all types of text

Hatch patterns

• Hatch fundamentals
• Picking patterns
• Picking area or objects to hatch
• Adjusting scale and orientation
• Working with hatch patterns
• Gradients and solid fill

Dimensions

• Linear dimensions
• Aligned dimensions
• Radius dimensions
• Diameter dimensions
• Angular dimensions
• Continuous dimensions

3D Basics

• Introduction
• Axes, planes, and faces
• Ribbon, toolbars, and options
• Entering and exiting 3D
• Projecting into 3D
• 3D dynamic views
• Extrude

Visual Styles

• View Cube

Primitives

• Introduction, Box
• Wedge, Cone, Sphere
• Cylinder, Torus, Pyramid
• Object Manipulation
• Introduction,Rotate3D
• 3Drotate (gizmo), 3Darray: polar and rectangular

Boolean Operations

• Introduction, Union
• Subtract, Intersect

Solid Modeling

• Introduction
• Revolve
• Loft
• Sweep