Autocad - Complete tutorial for beginners (Full tutorial 1h40m)

This is a complete tutorial for beginners in Autocad.

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Exercises to practice:
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Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/MUgZDUdv60A
PDF file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JNTQu7TZNnr5c4WPZnIX0erTVI5Uz4Ip/view?usp=sharing

Notes:
25:31 - should be "anti-clockwise" instead of "clockwise"

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Contents:

PART 1
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Autocad display
02:47 Commands and tools
06:10 Mouse (buttons function and selecting objects)

09:43 Learn to draw lines
10:26 Draw a horizontal line
12:14 Draw a line with a specific length
13:35 Orthomode
14:06 Draw a line with an angle
15:49 Polylines
16:49 Object Snap (use precision in your drawings)
19:13 Object Snap tracking

21:10 PART 2
Other drawing commands
21:19 Rectangle
22:54 Circle
24:36 Arc

25:34 Modifying objects
25:56 Move
27:01 Copy
27:36 Rotate
29:03 Offset
31:21 Trim
34:06 Extend
36:06 Mirror
38:07 Editing objects using grips
40:27 Exercises 2

40:56 PART 3

41:24 Set up units
43:46 Layers
45:03 Create a new layer
45:46 Turn off a layer
46:18 Move an object to a different layer
46:50 Isolate layers

48:23 Blocks
49:28 Create a block
51:21 Edit a block

52:11 Print a project
52:58 Set up paper size
55:03 Change size of viewport
55:19 Set up the scale
56:10 Hide the viewport
57:08 Print with different colors

58:23 Insert text
58:37 Single line text
59:29 Multiline text

1:00:32 PART 4
1:01:21 Scale objects
1:01:38 Scale factor
1:02:44 Scale with a Reference
1:03:19 Attach an image (...and scale it)
1:06:04 Import a PDF file
1:08:44 Stretch command
1:11:07 Hatch command

1:15:12 PART 5

Array objects
1:15:16 Rectangular Array
1:18:54 Polar array
1:21:43 Path Array

1:24:58 Explode Objects
Utilities panel
1:26:28 Quick Measure
1:26:38 Distance
1:27:53 Radius
1:28:03 Angle
1:28:21 Area
1:29:18 Quick Select
1:30:09 Select all
1:30:25 Calculator

1:30:43 PART 6
Dimension Lines
1:31:25 Linear dimensions
1:31:57 Dimension Style Manager
1:33:30 Other dimension types (Aligned, Angular, Radius...)

Tips and peculiarities
1:36:20 DimLayer
1:37:36 Snaps on arrows
1:38:36 Dimension styles


Licence:
The video shows the version 2020 of AutoCAD® and it is used exclusively for educational purposes.
Autodesk screen shots reprinted courtesy of Autodesk, Inc.
The narration and all the illustrations were created by CAD in Black.