AutoCAD 2016 Beginners Course2023-03-08T12:46:41+05:30

AutoCAD 2016 beginners course.

Learn AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2016 and older versions from scratch with tutorials, exercises and quizzes.

93 Video lessons

7.8 Hours of video

2 Student Projects

13 Practice exercises

Certificate of completion

65 MCQ Quizzes

Beginner and intermediate level

Downloadable lesson files

Recommended For

Architects, Civil engineers, Interior designers, Mechanical engineers, Electrical engineers, Product designers and hobbyists who want to learn AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT right from scratch.

About this course

The course is made with a beginner in mind, so all the topics start from scratch and have been explained in detail.

This course is primarily made with AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2016 but it is compatible with older versions of AutoCAD as well.

The course lessons are mostly project-oriented and most of the tools and commands are taught with their real-world applications.

The course starts with the basics of the draw and modify commands and gradually you will learn about complex modify tools, adding text and dimensions, annotations, isometric drawings, blocks and printing and plotting.

You will also learn about using hatches, layers, groups and external references in this course.

Advanced tools like annotative property, design centre and sheet set are also included.

Who should take this course

This course is recommended for a complete beginner of AutoCAD as well as intermediate-level users who know the basics. This course is best suitable for users of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2013 to 2017 versions of AutoCAD.

Pre-requisites

AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT 2013 up to the latest version on Windows operating system is recommended for the course.

Table of Contents.

  1. Introduction to AutoCAD 2016 (3:50)
  2. Ribbon, workspace, help and command search (3:58)
  3. Open, save and restore drawing (2:56)

  1. Specifying drawing units (2:58)
  2. Making and saving drawing template (3:41)
  3. Understanding user interface and drawing area (4:30)
  4. Pan and Zoom (2:55)
  5. Creating and saving drawing views (2:38)

  1. Lines (3:55)
  2. Circle (3:41)
  3. Arcs (7:31)
  4. Ellipses (2:51)
  5. Introduction to polyline and spline (2:52)
  6. Rectangle (2:57)
  7. Polygons (3:18)
  8. Point and revision cloud (3:04)

  1. Making selection sets (2:43)
  2. Move and copy command (2:40)
  3. Rotate and Scale (6:40)
  4. Offset and Mirror (3:51)
  5. Trim and Extend (5:19)
  6. Erase, Explode and Overkill (2:58)
  7. Stretch and lengthen (4:49)
  8. Break and Join (4:47)
  9. Fillet and Chamfer (8:00)
  10. Rectangular array (3:48)
  11. Polar array (4:10)
  12. Path array (2:36)
  13. Divide and Measure (4:12)
  14. Region and boolean operations (3:28)
  15. Multifunction grips (7:21)

  1. Understanding co-ordinate system (6:15)
  2. Using grid and snap (4:00)
  3. Polar and Ortho mode (4:35)
  4. Dynamic input (3:35)
  5. Object snap (6:34)
  6. From Snap (5:28)
  7. Object snap tracking (2:06)
  8. Making isometric drawing (7:21)
  9. Inquiry commands (6:13)

  1. Creating hatch (5:25)
  2. Using hatch features island detection, set origin and gap tolerance (5:22)
  3. Associative and non-associative hatch (2:23)
  4. Creating gradients (3:37)
  5. Boundary and wipeout features (4:32)

  1. Creating dimensions (4:00)
  2. DIM command (3:05)
  3. Modifying dimensions (4:50)
  4. Creating dimension style (8:41)
  5. Creating dimension style override (4:45)
  6. Creating multileader (5:48)
  7. Creating multileader style (5:44)

  1. Creating text style (3:13)
  2. Creating single line text (3:18)
  3. Creating Multiline text (7:17)
  4. Creating table style (6:19)
  5. Using and formatting table (8:08)
  6. Adding fields and formulas to table (5:45)
  7. Exporting and importing table to MS-Excel (5:00)

  1. Creating layer and assigning objects (4:39)
  2. Using layer property manager (10:11)
  3. Using layer panel (6:05)
  4. Working with layer states (4:51)
  5. Working with layer filters (7:52)
  6. Hiding and isolating objects (2:38)
  7. Editing object properties (5:33)

  1. Working with groups (8:18)
  2. Creating and inserting blocks (6:00)
  3. Inheritance in blocks, using by block and by layer options (5:03)
  4. Redefining and exploding blocks (3:31)
  5. Write block and global blocks (4:24)
  6. Introduction to Dynamic blocks (7:34)
  7. Making a dynamic block (5:49)
  8. Defining attributed blocks (6:17)

  1. Attaching X-Ref (5:18)
  2. Altering x-ref (4:18)
  3. Clipping and editing X-Ref (4:36)
  4. Removing X-Ref and using them as blocks (4:38)
  5. Transmitting X-Ref with eTransmit (6:37)

  1. Introduction to layout (3:38)
  2. Creating viewports and setting scale (5:39)
  3. Managing objects in viewport (3:17)

  1. Understanding annotative property (5:20)
  2. Making and using annotative objects (8:50)
  3. Using design centre (6:33)
  4. Using content explorer (5:33)
  5. Editing curved polylines (5:35)
  6. Introduction to sheet sets (9:14)

  1. Preparing layout and adding title block (4:19)
  2. Adding details to layout and viewport (5:15)
  3. Plotting drawing (6:55)
  4. Plotting to PDF, JPG, PNG and DWFx format (4:00)

  1. Common AutoCAD troubleshooting (5:43)
  2. Summary and thanking message (1:46)

Jaiprakash Pandey

About the author.

Jaiprakash Pandey is the published author of “Practical AutoCAD book” by Packt publication he is also an Autodesk AutoCAD certified professional and Autodesk expert elite community. He has been delivering CAD training to corporate clients for more than 8 years and his clients include Steel, Power, Automobile industries and also government organizations, fortune 500 companies and the military.

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