AutoCAD Tutorial
Hi Guys,
I have prepared this tutorial for users that are using AutoCAD for the first time so if this is your case welcome to my lessons I hope you will learn something here andespecially gain motivation to start working in AutoCAD as you may noticed, this version isAutoCAD 2013 however if you have another version this will not be a problem because even different versions can change a bit thelayout or the newest ones have more features all the basic and main thingsare mostly the same for example if you can work in AutoCAD 2005 it will not be too difficult to get usedto AutoCAD 2016 or 17 for example and this is because a special characteristic of AutoCAd is that we can start any action by typing the command name with the keyboard for example if I want to draw a line I can type "LINE", and this with activate the command if i type "options" I will open the panel of options so it's very simple if I hold my mouse pointer over anyicon it appears there a small box with abriefely explanation of this tool in this case it's the multiline text and this word below is the comand name.
so if i know it I can activatethis action by inserting the name with the keyboard so the name of the comands arethe same for all versions of course it's possible that exists any exception and also some of them have been experiencing improvements all over the time ok now I'm going to talk about theworkspace and how I can use the mouse and it's buttons it's possible that it seems a bitconfusing at the beginning but don't worry because you will get used easily this cross is our mouse indicator and it has exactly this shapewhen we don't have any comand active so the most common way to go todifferent sections of the drawing is using the mouse wheel if I scroll up, I can zoom in and if I scroll down, I zoom out to move the workspace just click and hold the weel and slide it if you are familiar with Google Maps this works as the same way so it will beeasy for you if you click anywhere with the "right button" this will open this panel here there are several options that you can choose the "left button" is used for selection if I want to select from the left to the right the selected area will appear as blue and I have to cover all my line if I just cover a part it will not be selected (as you can see here) but if I open the selection from the right to the left the selection area will be green and if I just touch the line it will be selected for cancel the selection just click on "esc" now i will startteaching you to draw in AutoCAD i will introduce you the command "LINE" this is the most basic tool and will be probably the one you will use most of time to draw a line I can go to the home panel on the top and click on the icon "LINE" with the left button another option is typing "LINE" with thekeyboard and click "ENTER" if you look to the command bar, you cansee that I have the command "LINE" active also the mouse indicator has changed now it doesn't have the square in the middle that appears in this form when i use any drawing tools you can find them in this panel to start drawingI can just click somewhere here to enterthe first point and click again .
where I want the second point for example, here now I can enter a second line but i can type "ESC" to cancel the command ok, so we have drawn a line however it was without any specificdimension and direction and this is not going to be useful for us I want to show you how to insert ahorizontal line with dimension 1000 for now the units doesn't matter i willshow you how to edit them later if i type "ENTER" now I activate the command "LINE" again this is because it was the last commandI have been using and it's very useful for repeatedly actions I click to insert the first point and i'm going to drag to the right here appeared this dashed green line and saying here "POLAR" this means that my line will be horizontal now i will type 1000 and type "ENTER" this line is completely horizontal and specified as 1000 to be possible to draw completely horizontal or vertical lines we need the "POLAR MODE" on now i will deactivated it which is here at the bottom, to show you what will happen I will draw another line now and as you see, the dashed line is not there and even if I try to draw it ashorizontal as possible it will be for sure a little bit out ofthe place for this reason, I strongly recommend you to have the "POLAR MODE" on if you need to do lots of horizontaland vertical "LINES" to draw only orthogonal lines I can switch on the "ORTHO MODE" which isthis button next to the polar mode drawing a line again So, I click for my first point and the cursor only lets me to draw a vertical or horizontal line so i will type now "100" now "200" and then I continue drawing this will be "100" I will draw another line I can draw how many lines as I want when i finish i simply click "ESC" this last one I have to make it "100" to match the line below.
So, the last thing I will teach you about the command "LINE" is to draw a line with aspecified angle i will draw first an horizontal line and the next one, I want to draw it with length "200" now if I type the button "TAB" I can specify the angle that i want i will put for example 30 degrees and click enter to place it so in this next section i will explain you how to set up and editunits One thing I recommend is drawingwith scale 1:1 I mean if you want to draw a line withone meter of length draw it with the real length and not with 1cmfor example that's because it's easier to not getconfused and you only need to scale the drawing when you will plot it now if you look to the bottom left corner you can see the coordinates of the mouse pointer and of course, the first one is "X", the second "Y" and the third one is "Z" and this isalways zero because we are working in 2d also this point is where my coordinatesare all 0 now i am going to set up my units I will type units and press ENTER to open this panel here were says length I can choose the type of that I want in mycase I use decimal units but I know in some countries is common to use thearchitectural or engineering units in the precision, you have all these optionsto choose and in this side, you can choosethe type of angle units I will choose decimal degrees in the insertion scale we will choose the units that we want if you use standard units but those arejust used for conversion when we want to insert a block or an external image just for drawing, that units don't matter that's because AutoCAD has adimensionless system of measurement we only need to put the scale when we need to print .
now I want to show you a common issueespecially when we are using millimeters we notice that our workspace isnot very wide but this is simple to solve if I draw a very long line like for example 100,000 mm of course it will not fit in the drawing but i'm going to type "Z"for zoom I press "Enter" and now I type "A" for all as you see, my workspace is much larger now in this part I will show you a very basic tool that will help us to draw with precision it's the "object snap" in the screen youcan see these lines that you may know how to draw if you have followed thesetutorials from the beginning so i'm going to activate the commandline and if i drop the pointer through the lines you can see these green symbolsappearing there these points are from the object snap andthey help me to draw with precision for example the square indicates anendpoint of one of the lines if i click here the start point of the new line will beprecisely from the corner I will show you what happens when Ihave the "object snap" off so i would try to draw a line from thiscorner and now if i zoom in you can see that there is a gap these things can make your drafting unprecise and for large projects the objects may not match now i am going to show you how to choosethe "object snap" points we have to type "OSNAP" to open the settings here, I canactivate the modes that I need in this tutorial i will show you how to use someof them i will start with the "ENDPOINT" as I showed you before it appears in the extremities of thelines and arcs the "MIDPOINT" is useful when you want to draw from the middle ofan object the "CENTER" only applies for circles and ellipses and to detect these points you have to touch the border of the circle without clicking for the ellipse is thesame the "INTERSECTION" is obviously when you want to detect the point ofintersection of two lines the "EXTENSION" appears for example when you click onthe "ENDPOINT" and you drag the pointer in the same direction of your line now the "PERPENDICULAR" this is a little bit tricky I'm going todraw a line from here and now, I have to touch the line that I want to assumeas my reference I drag the mouse to find the perpendicular line so here it is. I can just type the length to draw it .
now I want to draw a line from the same point, to the perpendicular intersection of this line I highlighted here here when I drag the new line towardsthe line i highlighted I find this sign that indicates theperpendicular point of my future intersection I click thereand i have my new line, orthogonal with this another "PARALLEL" mode If you want to draw a parallel line just click here for example drag themouse over the line i want to make it parallel to detect it one last thing i want to explain here,is the "object snap tracking" this is really useful if i want to put thefirst point of a new line at 50mm to the right from another I will touch the endpoint of my line anddrag slowly to the right i wil ltype "50" to insert the firstpoint of the new line so here it is of course, I can do thesame to other direction now i will show you to the left side this time i will insert the distance of "100" and I can draw this line here one last thing about the "object snap" I recommend you to only activate the modes you are going to use in the project because if you activate everything this can be a bit confusing sometimes with the green signs appearing everywhere how does the other drawing tools work if you go to the drawing section on the top you can find there are a lot of commands and there are some more if you click here as this is a tutorial forbeginners I will only show you how to use some ofthem POLYLINES, RECTANGLES, CIRCLES and ARCS I think these are the most used andenough for beginners in AutoCAD I will show you how to use the command "POLYLINE" a polyline is basically a group of lines all connectedto each other to draw a polyline we can click in this button or we canalso type with the keyboard: "polyline" or simply "pl" and click "enter" as you can see, this is the same processof drawing lines I'm drawing as much lines as i need and when i finish i can click "ESC" or if I want to join with the first point of the "polyline" i can type "cl" that means close so the main characteristic.
when I draw apolyline is that I select all these lines together because they areconsidered only one object if I want to draw a rectangle I can still use "polyline" but if i clickin the command "rectangle" it is easier that is because, first I click to insert the start point and then, I only need to insert the coordinates ofthe opposite corner for example if I want a rectangle with dimension300 per 500 first I will type "300" then, I press "TAB" and finally" 500" so as you see, for rectangles is fasterdoing this way now, i will show you how to draw a circle you can click on this icon here or you can type "circle" or "c" it is very simple first, I click to insert the center for example, here and now I will insert the radius of the circle for example "250" and press enter so it's done now if you go to thedrawing panel and click in this arrow you can choose the way how you want toinsert the circle for example you can choose first thecenter and insert the diameter you can draw a circle by inserting two or threepoints or also by putting tangents so if you want you can you can playaround with this because it's easy to learn if i want to draw an arc I can click onthe icon above or I can simply type "a" with the keyword I click to insert a first point now I willput a second point and now the third point at the beginning it may be a little bitdifficult to draw an arc but with practice you'll get used to it also, likethe circle if you click in the arrow you can choosethe points that you want to insert for drawing the arc as you see, you have hereseveral options ok, now that you know how to use thesecommands you can play around with them and also discover the other drawingtools so it's all in this video don't forget to subscribe if you want to watch the complete list of tutorials well thank you very much for watchingthis video and i hope to see you soon .
Hi Guys,
I have prepared this tutorial for users that are using AutoCAD for the first time so if this is your case welcome to my lessons I hope you will learn something here andespecially gain motivation to start working in AutoCAD as you may noticed, this version isAutoCAD 2013 however if you have another version this will not be a problem because even different versions can change a bit thelayout or the newest ones have more features all the basic and main thingsare mostly the same for example if you can work in AutoCAD 2005 it will not be too difficult to get usedto AutoCAD 2016 or 17 for example and this is because a special characteristic of AutoCAd is that we can start any action by typing the command name with the keyboard for example if I want to draw a line I can type "LINE", and this with activate the command if i type "options" I will open the panel of options so it's very simple if I hold my mouse pointer over anyicon it appears there a small box with abriefely explanation of this tool in this case it's the multiline text and this word below is the comand name.
so if i know it I can activatethis action by inserting the name with the keyboard so the name of the comands arethe same for all versions of course it's possible that exists any exception and also some of them have been experiencing improvements all over the time ok now I'm going to talk about theworkspace and how I can use the mouse and it's buttons it's possible that it seems a bitconfusing at the beginning but don't worry because you will get used easily this cross is our mouse indicator and it has exactly this shapewhen we don't have any comand active so the most common way to go todifferent sections of the drawing is using the mouse wheel if I scroll up, I can zoom in and if I scroll down, I zoom out to move the workspace just click and hold the weel and slide it if you are familiar with Google Maps this works as the same way so it will beeasy for you if you click anywhere with the "right button" this will open this panel here there are several options that you can choose the "left button" is used for selection if I want to select from the left to the right the selected area will appear as blue and I have to cover all my line if I just cover a part it will not be selected (as you can see here) but if I open the selection from the right to the left the selection area will be green and if I just touch the line it will be selected for cancel the selection just click on "esc" now i will startteaching you to draw in AutoCAD i will introduce you the command "LINE" this is the most basic tool and will be probably the one you will use most of time to draw a line I can go to the home panel on the top and click on the icon "LINE" with the left button another option is typing "LINE" with thekeyboard and click "ENTER" if you look to the command bar, you cansee that I have the command "LINE" active also the mouse indicator has changed now it doesn't have the square in the middle that appears in this form when i use any drawing tools you can find them in this panel to start drawingI can just click somewhere here to enterthe first point and click again .
where I want the second point for example, here now I can enter a second line but i can type "ESC" to cancel the command ok, so we have drawn a line however it was without any specificdimension and direction and this is not going to be useful for us I want to show you how to insert ahorizontal line with dimension 1000 for now the units doesn't matter i willshow you how to edit them later if i type "ENTER" now I activate the command "LINE" again this is because it was the last commandI have been using and it's very useful for repeatedly actions I click to insert the first point and i'm going to drag to the right here appeared this dashed green line and saying here "POLAR" this means that my line will be horizontal now i will type 1000 and type "ENTER" this line is completely horizontal and specified as 1000 to be possible to draw completely horizontal or vertical lines we need the "POLAR MODE" on now i will deactivated it which is here at the bottom, to show you what will happen I will draw another line now and as you see, the dashed line is not there and even if I try to draw it ashorizontal as possible it will be for sure a little bit out ofthe place for this reason, I strongly recommend you to have the "POLAR MODE" on if you need to do lots of horizontaland vertical "LINES" to draw only orthogonal lines I can switch on the "ORTHO MODE" which isthis button next to the polar mode drawing a line again So, I click for my first point and the cursor only lets me to draw a vertical or horizontal line so i will type now "100" now "200" and then I continue drawing this will be "100" I will draw another line I can draw how many lines as I want when i finish i simply click "ESC" this last one I have to make it "100" to match the line below.
So, the last thing I will teach you about the command "LINE" is to draw a line with aspecified angle i will draw first an horizontal line and the next one, I want to draw it with length "200" now if I type the button "TAB" I can specify the angle that i want i will put for example 30 degrees and click enter to place it so in this next section i will explain you how to set up and editunits One thing I recommend is drawingwith scale 1:1 I mean if you want to draw a line withone meter of length draw it with the real length and not with 1cmfor example that's because it's easier to not getconfused and you only need to scale the drawing when you will plot it now if you look to the bottom left corner you can see the coordinates of the mouse pointer and of course, the first one is "X", the second "Y" and the third one is "Z" and this isalways zero because we are working in 2d also this point is where my coordinatesare all 0 now i am going to set up my units I will type units and press ENTER to open this panel here were says length I can choose the type of that I want in mycase I use decimal units but I know in some countries is common to use thearchitectural or engineering units in the precision, you have all these optionsto choose and in this side, you can choosethe type of angle units I will choose decimal degrees in the insertion scale we will choose the units that we want if you use standard units but those arejust used for conversion when we want to insert a block or an external image just for drawing, that units don't matter that's because AutoCAD has adimensionless system of measurement we only need to put the scale when we need to print .
now I want to show you a common issueespecially when we are using millimeters we notice that our workspace isnot very wide but this is simple to solve if I draw a very long line like for example 100,000 mm of course it will not fit in the drawing but i'm going to type "Z"for zoom I press "Enter" and now I type "A" for all as you see, my workspace is much larger now in this part I will show you a very basic tool that will help us to draw with precision it's the "object snap" in the screen youcan see these lines that you may know how to draw if you have followed thesetutorials from the beginning so i'm going to activate the commandline and if i drop the pointer through the lines you can see these green symbolsappearing there these points are from the object snap andthey help me to draw with precision for example the square indicates anendpoint of one of the lines if i click here the start point of the new line will beprecisely from the corner I will show you what happens when Ihave the "object snap" off so i would try to draw a line from thiscorner and now if i zoom in you can see that there is a gap these things can make your drafting unprecise and for large projects the objects may not match now i am going to show you how to choosethe "object snap" points we have to type "OSNAP" to open the settings here, I canactivate the modes that I need in this tutorial i will show you how to use someof them i will start with the "ENDPOINT" as I showed you before it appears in the extremities of thelines and arcs the "MIDPOINT" is useful when you want to draw from the middle ofan object the "CENTER" only applies for circles and ellipses and to detect these points you have to touch the border of the circle without clicking for the ellipse is thesame the "INTERSECTION" is obviously when you want to detect the point ofintersection of two lines the "EXTENSION" appears for example when you click onthe "ENDPOINT" and you drag the pointer in the same direction of your line now the "PERPENDICULAR" this is a little bit tricky I'm going todraw a line from here and now, I have to touch the line that I want to assumeas my reference I drag the mouse to find the perpendicular line so here it is. I can just type the length to draw it .
now I want to draw a line from the same point, to the perpendicular intersection of this line I highlighted here here when I drag the new line towardsthe line i highlighted I find this sign that indicates theperpendicular point of my future intersection I click thereand i have my new line, orthogonal with this another "PARALLEL" mode If you want to draw a parallel line just click here for example drag themouse over the line i want to make it parallel to detect it one last thing i want to explain here,is the "object snap tracking" this is really useful if i want to put thefirst point of a new line at 50mm to the right from another I will touch the endpoint of my line anddrag slowly to the right i wil ltype "50" to insert the firstpoint of the new line so here it is of course, I can do thesame to other direction now i will show you to the left side this time i will insert the distance of "100" and I can draw this line here one last thing about the "object snap" I recommend you to only activate the modes you are going to use in the project because if you activate everything this can be a bit confusing sometimes with the green signs appearing everywhere how does the other drawing tools work if you go to the drawing section on the top you can find there are a lot of commands and there are some more if you click here as this is a tutorial forbeginners I will only show you how to use some ofthem POLYLINES, RECTANGLES, CIRCLES and ARCS I think these are the most used andenough for beginners in AutoCAD I will show you how to use the command "POLYLINE" a polyline is basically a group of lines all connectedto each other to draw a polyline we can click in this button or we canalso type with the keyboard: "polyline" or simply "pl" and click "enter" as you can see, this is the same processof drawing lines I'm drawing as much lines as i need and when i finish i can click "ESC" or if I want to join with the first point of the "polyline" i can type "cl" that means close so the main characteristic.
when I draw apolyline is that I select all these lines together because they areconsidered only one object if I want to draw a rectangle I can still use "polyline" but if i clickin the command "rectangle" it is easier that is because, first I click to insert the start point and then, I only need to insert the coordinates ofthe opposite corner for example if I want a rectangle with dimension300 per 500 first I will type "300" then, I press "TAB" and finally" 500" so as you see, for rectangles is fasterdoing this way now, i will show you how to draw a circle you can click on this icon here or you can type "circle" or "c" it is very simple first, I click to insert the center for example, here and now I will insert the radius of the circle for example "250" and press enter so it's done now if you go to thedrawing panel and click in this arrow you can choose the way how you want toinsert the circle for example you can choose first thecenter and insert the diameter you can draw a circle by inserting two or threepoints or also by putting tangents so if you want you can you can playaround with this because it's easy to learn if i want to draw an arc I can click onthe icon above or I can simply type "a" with the keyword I click to insert a first point now I willput a second point and now the third point at the beginning it may be a little bitdifficult to draw an arc but with practice you'll get used to it also, likethe circle if you click in the arrow you can choosethe points that you want to insert for drawing the arc as you see, you have hereseveral options ok, now that you know how to use thesecommands you can play around with them and also discover the other drawingtools so it's all in this video don't forget to subscribe if you want to watch the complete list of tutorials well thank you very much for watchingthis video and i hope to see you soon .
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