AutoCAD Tutorials for free, Lessons, Videos

50 FREE AUTOCAD TUTORIALS - A COMPLETE COURSE

About the tutorials :

This site provides great tutorials / lessons for the student of AutoCAD. These lessons are designed to be as compatible with as many versions of AutoCAD as possible. They are based on AutoCAD 2010, but can be easily adapted to other versions. The lesson format was used in my CAD classes I have been teaching previously. Any feedback would be used to make these as useful as possible. Please note that these lessons are for private, individual use as well as public schools. Tutorials for 2008 are available here.

The advantage to these lessons is that they teach the commands in context. Many online lessons deal only with the command, and not how it fits in the "general plan". I have also added videos with most of the lessons so that you can see the commands in action, and visualize how the assignments can be done.

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If you do not have a copy of AutoCAD, you can download a 30 day evaluation copy from Autodesk. Follow this link, or go directly to their website. You will be downloading AutoCAD 2010 and will work fine with these tutorials. You can also try other CAD programs like ZWCAD, which are less expensive alternatives.

Here are complete lessons divided into 4 levels of learning. Each Level is one section that builds on the previous. Clicking on the lesson number below will take you to that lesson within the complete file. Each lesson also has its own quiz and each level has a combined quiz!

Many lessons have videos with narration to explain in detail some of the concepts. To view these videos, you will need the Adobe Flash player for your browser. Most of you should have it, but it is available here free of charge.


CAD LEVEL 1- Getting Started with AutoCAD
LESSON 1-1	X-Y CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM, INPUTTING POINTS, THE AUTOCAD SCREEN, BASIC AUTOCAD TERMINOLOGY
LESSON 1-2	ASSIGNMENT 1 INTRO TO DRAWING / MODIFYING COMMANDS
LESSON 1-3	ASSIGNMENT 2 MORE MODIFYING COMMANDS / OBJECT SNAPS
LESSON 1-4	ASSIGNMENT 3 ACCURATE INPUT
LESSON 1-5	SELECTION SETS
LESSON 1-6	ASSIGNMENT 4 MODIFYING COMMANDS
LESSON 1-7	ASSIGNMENT 5 MODIFYING COMMANDS
LESSON 1-8	ASSIGNMENT 6 LAYERS / DIMENSIONING / TEXT / SCALE
LESSON 1-9	DIRECT DISTANCE ENTRY AND OBJECT TRACKING
LESSON 1-10	CHANGING THE PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS
LESSON 1-11	ZOOMING AND PANNING AROUND A DRAWING
QUIZ FOR LEVEL 1
CAD LEVEL 2 - Intermediate AutoCAD
LESSON 2-1	PLANNING A PROJECT - OFFICE FLOOR PLAN
LESSON 2-2	INTRODUCTION TO BLOCKS - CREATING AND INSERTING
LESSON 2-3	ALIGN AND ROTATE
LESSON 2-4	ATTRIBUTES - NON-GRAPHICAL INFORMATION
LESSON 2-4a	CREATING A TITLE BLOCK WITH ATTRIBUTES
LESSON 2-5	HATCHING - FILLING AREAS
LESSON 2-6	WORKING WITH TEXT
LESSON 2-7	POLYLINES
LESSON 2-8	LAYOUT TABS
LESSON 2-9	PARAMETRIC CONSTRAINTS
QUIZ FOR LEVEL 2

CAD LEVEL 3 - Introduction to 3-D
LESSON 3-1	INTRODUCTION TO 3-D
LESSON 3-2	ISOMETRIC DRAWING
LESSON 3-3	WORKING IN 3 DIMENSIONS
LESSON 3-4	VIEWING 3-D OBJECTS
LESSON 3-5	BASIC WIREFRAME MODELS
LESSON 3-6	LINE THICKNESS
LESSON 3-7	REGIONS AND 3-D FACES
LESSON 3-7a	MORE ABOUT EXTRUDING & LOFTING
LESSON 3-8	REVOLVED OBJECTS
LESSON 3-9	ADDING MATERIALS
LESSON 3-10	PRIMITIVE SOLIDS
LESSON 3-11	BOOLEAN OPERATIONS
LESSON 3-12	CHANGING FROM THE WCS TO THE UCS
LESSON 3-13	MAPPING MATERIALS
LESSON 3-14	CREATING NEW MATERIALS
LESSON 3-15	EXTRA PROJECTS AND A TUTORIAL
LESSON 3-16	PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER - MODEL A BUILDING
LESSON 3-17	INTRODUCTION TO RENDERING AND LIGHTING
QUIZ FOR LEVEL 3
CAD LEVEL 4 - Advanced Topics
LESSON 4-1	AUTOCAD TEMPLATE FILES
LESSON 4-2	USING OSNAPS IN AUTOCAD
LESSON 4-3	LINETYPES AND LINETYPE SCALE
LESSON 4-4	AUTOCAD FILE FORMATS
LESSON 4-5	GRIP EDITING
LESSON 4-6	AUTOCAD'S INQUIRY TOOLS
LESSON 4-7	XREF'S (EXTERNAL REFERENCES)
LESSON 4-8	SYSTEM VARIABLES
LESSON 4-9	TABLES
LESSON 4-10	INTRODUCTION TO SET SHEETS
LESSON 4-11	MODIFYING AND CREATING DIMENSIONS
LESSON 4-12	INTRODUCTION TO CUSTOMIZING AUTOCAD
QUIZ FOR LEVEL 4

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About the tutorials :

CAD LEVEL 1- Getting Started with AutoCAD

CAD LEVEL 2 - Intermediate AutoCAD

CAD LEVEL 3 - Introduction to 3-D

CAD LEVEL 4 - Advanced Topics