AutoCAD 2025 Essential Training

Learn skills to take you beyond the basics in AutoCAD 2025 and continue your learning journey with this powerful designing and drafting software.

Introduction

• AutoCAD essentials
• The advantages of using AutoCAD
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Further AutoCAD courses in the library
• The AutoCAD 2025 introduction

1. The AutoCAD Interface

• Using the AutoCAD application menu
• Using the AutoCAD infobar
• Utilizing the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in AutoCAD
• Using the AutoCAD ribbon and panels
• Customizing the AutoCAD interface using workspaces
• Utilizing the palettes and dialog boxes in AutoCAD
• Working with the AutoCAD command line
• Using Dynamic Input (DYNMODE) for quicker input in AutoCAD
• Using the AutoCAD status bar to your advantage
• Using your Autodesk account
• Navigating model space and paper space using the tab tools in AutoCAD

2. Using Units and Options

• Setting units in your AutoCAD drawings
• Setting AutoCAD options
• Working with drawings using metric units
• Working with drawings using imperial units
• Working with templates using AutoCAD DWT files

3. Navigating Your Drawings

• Navigating drawings with Zoom and Pan
• Working in model space and paper space in AutoCAD
• Navigating easily by saving and restoring views in AutoCAD
• Working with the mouse and mouse settings
• Utilizing the ViewCube and the Navigation Bar for easy AutoCAD navigation

4. Drawing Accurately

• Using Grid and Snap for accurate drafting in AutoCAD
• Using coordinates in AutoCAD for precise drafting
• Utilizing Dynamic Input (DYNMODE) in AutoCAD
• Using Direct Distance Entry (DDE) for quicker data entry

5. Creating Simple Geometry: The Basics

• Using OSNAP and AUTOSNAP for precise geometry
• Using POLAR and ORTHO for precise geometry
• Creating lines, arcs, and circles quickly and effectively
• Creating polylines and splines quickly and effectively

6. Other Drafting Tools

• Creating rectangles and polygons quickly and effectively
• Creating points and donuts as reference points in AutoCAD
• Creating ellipses quickly and easily in AutoCAD
• Using isometric drafting (ISODRAFT) effectively in AutoCAD

7. Exploring the Interface Further

• Working with the AutoCAD file tabs
• Utilizing the AutoCAD shortcut menu

8. Modifying Objects

• Selecting objects in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Move and Copy in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Mirror and Offset in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Break and Join in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Grips and Grip Editing in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Boundaries with your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Fillet and Chamfer on AutoCAD geometry
• Using Divide and Measure for accurate drafting in AutoCAD
• Editing polylines and splines quickly and accurately in AutoCAD
• Using Trim and Extend for accurate and precise drafting in AutoCAD
• Creating and using arrays in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Stretch and Lengthen to edit AutoCAD geometry

9. Hatching and Gradients

• Using the Hatch command to highlight areas in AutoCAD drawings
• Using the Gradient command for enhanced colors in AutoCAD drawings
• Using Draw Order to display hatches and gradients effectively in AutoCAD
• Editing hatches and gradients quickly and effectively in AutoCAD

10. Annotating Your Designs

• Creating and using AutoCAD text styles
• Working with single line text (TEXT) and multiline text (MTEXT) in AutoCAD
• Creating and using AutoCAD dimension styles effectively
• Adding dimensions to your AutoCAD drawings quickly and easily
• Using Quick Leader (QLEADER) in your AutoCAD drawings
• Creating and using table styles in AutoCAD
• Adding a table to your AutoCAD drawing
• Creating and using multileader styles in your AutoCAD drawings
• Working with a multileader in your AutoCAD drawings
• Aligning text precisely and accurately in AutoCAD

11. More Dimensioning Techniques

• Editing dimensions and dimension overrides in AutoCAD drawings
• Breaking and spacing AutoCAD dimensions quickly and easily
• Using Continue and Baseline to enhance your AutoCAD dimension annotation
• Using automatic dimensioning in your AutoCAD drawings

12. Object and Layer Properties

• Working with AutoCAD object properties
• Changing the linetype scale in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using Hide and Isolate in AutoCAD drawings
• Creating new layers and working with the layer dropdown menu in AutoCAD
• Using the layer tools in AutoCAD drawings
• Working with layer states in AutoCAD drawings

13. Reusing Content

• Using groups with geometry in AutoCAD
• Creating and inserting an AutoCAD block into a drawing
• Redefining block definitions in an AutoCAD drawing
• Using the EXPLODE command with blocks in your AutoCAD drawings
• Creating a simple dynamic block in an AutoCAD drawing
• Using the WBLOCK command to write blocks to AutoCAD drawings

14. Attributes and Tables

• Creating a simple block with attributes in AutoCAD
• Working with the Enhanced Attribute Editor in AutoCAD
• Working with table styles in your AutoCAD drawings
• Designing a table in your AutoCAD drawing
• Adding fields to an AutoCAD table in your drawing

15. External References (XREFs)

• Attaching XREFs to an AutoCAD drawing
• Altering and clipping XREFs attached to an AutoCAD drawing
• Editing XREFs in AutoCAD
• Editing XREFs in place in AutoCAD

16. Working with Viewports and Annotation

• Locking viewports in your AutoCAD drawings
• Freezing viewport layers in AutoCAD drawings
• Using annotative text styles in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings
• Using revision clouds in your AutoCAD drawings

17. Communicating Your Design Intent

• Creating a simple title block for your AutoCAD drawing
• Defining your page setup in your AutoCAD drawings
• Adding new scaled viewports in AutoCAD drawings
• Using annotative scaling in your AutoCAD drawings
• Printing and plotting your AutoCAD drawings

18. Other Output Methods

• Plotting AutoCAD drawings from the Model tab
• Packaging drawings with eTransmit in AutoCAD
• Batch Plotting (PUBLISH) drawings in AutoCAD

19. Drawing Management Tools

• Comparing AutoCAD drawings with DWG Compare
• Using the Count functionality to check the number of objects in an AutoCAD drawing

20. Collaboration Tools

• Working with cloud-based storage for AutoCAD drawings
• Saving and opening to and from the AutoCAD Web and Mobile folders
• Using AutoCAD drawings through AutoCAD Web
• Using Traces to collaborate on drawings with AutoCAD Web
• Using the Traces palette on the AutoCAD desktop to collaborate on drawings
• Sharing AutoCAD drawings with other stakeholders

Conclusion

• You know AutoCAD: Now what?