A complete tutorial on the most common drawing tool in AutoCAD - the mighty polyline!

Autocad Tutorials from Beginner to expert - Lines & Layers to 3D CAD Drawing

How to create, edit and redefine blocks in AutoCAD to make your drawings load quicker, and a lot easier to amend and edit.

A tutorial on the object snap settings in AutoCAD which help accurately draw from specific points.

An in-depth tutorial explaining how to work with paperspace and layout views in AutoCAD, as well as print from these views to scale.

Learn how to create and define hatch patterns to areas of your drawing. Includes downloadable AutoCAD files and interactive examples.

How to create and edit notes and labels in your AutoCAD drawings.

Learn how to tidy up your drawings and arrange complex viewports using layers within AutoCAD.

An in-depth tutorial on all of the powerful modify commands available in AutoCAD with interactive tutorials and example download files.

Uncover the usefulness of utilising drawing limits in AutoCAD.

An introduction into finding your way around the AutoCAD drafting area using the zoom and pan tools.

A refreshingly simple comprehensive tutorial on the basic drawing commands available in AutoCAD.

This tutorial describes how to create custom bitmap based materials in AutoCAD and how to create the bitmap tile from scratch in Photoshop.

This tutorial explains in detail how to move your AutoCAD drawings into Adobe Photoshop.

Drawing with AutoCAD is really just like drawing on a drawing board. Most newcommers to Computer Aided Design assume that they will need to learn how to draw all over again. This tutorial covers Ortho, Grid, Snap and Polar Tracking.

The Object Snaps (Osnaps for short) are drawing aids which are used in conjunction with other commands to help you draw accurately.

Direct distance entry is one of those AutoCAD features that is often overlooked. This is rather unfortunate because it can be extremely useful and an amazing time-saver.

The selection tools described in the Object Selection tutorial are fine if you only need to pick a few objects at a time or if you can easily see the objects you want to select. Sometimes though, your selection requirements may not be quite so simple. This tutorial describes the use of AutoCAD's advanced selection tools and how to use them.

AutoCAD has some very powerful and useful features for accurately creating sunlight effects. This tutorial shows you how to use them.

This exercise is designed to help you understand how to construct drawings from given dimensions and how to use the various drawing and modify tools to create new drawing elements.

There is no way to create perfect or realistic shadows in AutoCAD but there are various options that can be used to create approximate shadow effects. This tutorial explains what they are and how to use them.

From time to time, you may need to use a raster image to trace off information. For example, you may want to use a map base to draw the line of a road or to draw some contours. This tutorial shows you how to accurately scale raster images.

This exercise is designed to demonstrate the use of many of the image commands described in the All about Images tutorial.

AutoCAD is essentially a vector drawing application. However, there are occasions when it would be useful to display raster images as part of your drawing. It would also be useful if you could make basic modifications to images and to be able to scale them. This tutorial shows you how.

The UCS icon appears in many different forms You may notice, looking at the various icons, that they are all subtly different. Understanding the meaning of these subtle differences can help you to orientate yourself with respect to the current co-ordinate system and in particular, to know where the co-ordinate system origin is located.

A good understanding of how co-ordinates work in AutoCAD is absolutely crucial if you are to make the best use of the program. If you are not familiar with co-ordinates and co-ordinate systems, use this tutorial to familiarise yourself with the basic concepts.

Among the most important concepts that newcomers to AutoCAD need to get to grips with are those of drawing scale and drawing units. You cannot start creating sensible drawings with AutoCAD until you are familiar with scale, units and the commands you use to control them. This tutorial discusses these concepts, starting with the two most commonly asked questions in this subject area.

AutoCAD drawings are rarely completed simply by drawing lines, circles etc. Most likely you will need to Modify these basic drawing objects in some way in order to create the image you need. This tutorial shows you how.

This tutorial covers all you need to know about selecting objects in AutoCAD.

This tutorial is designed to show you how all of the AutoCAD Draw commands work.

In this project you master the skills required to place orthogonal and sectional views of solid assemblies on drawing sheets using the SOLVIEW and SOLDRAW commands. You will find the tools demonstrated in this project useful if you want to quickly document parts created with AutoCAD's solids modeling commands.

In this project, you learn how to create custom toolbars, and how to create flyouts. By the time you complete this project, you should find it very easy to add your own command macros and symbols to a toolbar, and to use toolbars to create flyouts.

Creating your own toolbars and flyouts is a great way to customize AutoCAD. You can create custom toolbars and flyouts without leaving AutoCAD, and without having any previous programming experience.

A very large and detailed introduction to AutoCAD, well worth the read.

Every AutoCAD user has, at one time or another, been frustrated by the wait required to load a large drawing file. In this lesson you master the skills required to open only a portion of a large drawing file.

This tutorial outlines the general characteristics of the PC-based drafting system known as AutoCAD. The purpose is to give a new user a broad conceptual understanding of the operation of this system.