Online AutoCAD Course | Complete Guide to Autodesk AutoCAD
Welcome to the Complete Guide to AutoCAD – the ultimate course for architects and designers looking to master AutoCAD. While Revit and BIM are transforming the architectural landscape, AutoCAD remains an indispensable tool for precision drafting and detailed design work.
- 5+ hours of premium content
- 11 step-by-step video lessons
- Future updates included
About this course
This course offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to harnessing the full potential of AutoCAD, making it an essential addition to your professional toolkit. AutoCAD is renowned for its precision, versatility, and extensive toolset, making it the go-to software for detailed 2D drafting and complex design tasks.
This comprehensive AutoCAD mastery course develops your expertise across the complete range of architectural applications through Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater project. You'll gain practice-ready understanding of AutoCAD's extensive toolset, from basic drawing commands through advanced annotation and modification techniques that meet professional architectural standards.
The Fallingwater project demonstrates the complete architectural drafting workflow, from initial setup and drawing creation through final enhancement and professional output. You'll learn to create accurate production information including floor plans, elevations, sections, and details while developing efficient workflows that balance quality with productivity.
Advanced techniques include external file management, drawing enhancement strategies, and comprehensive annotation systems that communicate design intent clearly. The course covers both 2D drafting excellence and graphic enhancement methods that elevate technical drawings to presentation quality.
By completion, you'll possess comprehensive AutoCAD skills that remain highly valued in architectural practice for their precision, versatility, and integration capabilities with other design software, making you versatile across traditional and contemporary architectural workflows.
What will you learn?
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This course will turn you into:
A comprehensive CAD professional
Master AutoCAD's complete toolset through the Fallingwater project, from basic drawing commands to advanced annotation and modification techniques. Develop proficiency in precision drafting, external file management, and drawing enhancement that meets professional architectural standards.
A project documentation specialist
Gain expertise in creating complete architectural drawing sets including floor plans, elevations, sections, and details. Learn proper annotation techniques, dimension systems, and graphic enhancement strategies that communicate design intent clearly to clients and construction teams.
An efficient production strategist
Develop advanced skills in drawing layout, plotting workflows, and file organization that optimize the design-to-documentation process. Learn time-saving techniques, template creation, and output management that accelerate project delivery while maintaining quality standards.
Syllabus
In this lesson, we talk about the interface of AutoCAD so we can familiarise ourselves with the various menus and panels and find out where to find the tools needed to use throughout the course.
In this lesson, we explore all the basic 2D drawing tools and commands, so that you can start creating your drawings.
In this lesson, we talk about all the tools that allow you to interact with and modify the drawn elements to speed up your workflow and make your drafting process as efficient as can be.
In this lesson, we cover the basic concepts required to use AutoCAD effectively. We talk about the annotation tools, that allow you to place text notes and measurements, to enrich your drawings with more than just geometry.
Here, we talk about working with external files, in preparation for starting to work on the subject building later in the course. This process is useful for so many reasons, not least because it will allow us to trace over the work of the legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and recreate some of the drawings of Fallingwater.
In this lesson, we begin working on the Fallingwater house by Frank Lloyd Wright. We show you how to set up your new project drawing, which can serve as an example for all other subsequent drawings we'll create during this course.
The best place to start is the floor plans. We can now start to deploy all the drawing commands explained earlier in the course. We also discuss how to lay out different floor plan drawings to better organise your project.
With the floor plans in place we turn to the other essential orthographic drawings in the form of elevations and cross sections. We also touch on how to organise these drawings in relation to the plans, for ultimate accuracy.
In this lesson, you'll learn to enhance the visual quality of the drawings created so far. We also cover how to add texture, shadow, blocks for furniture, people, and vegetation, and how to add annotations such as measurements and text notes.
In the final session of the course, we output information from the drawings. We talk about layouts and page setup, look at what title blocks are, and make the final graphical appearance changes to ensure plotting from the file looks as intended.
Meet your instructor
Radu Fulgheci
Architect
BDP
Hi, I'm Radu. I'm an architect with over ten years of experience using many architectural design and modelling applications, for both professional and academic purposes. Working on challenging, high-profile projects, and international competitions, I've continually sought ways to optimise my workflow, from single to multiple applications, in order to achieve the best results in the shortest time.
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