Author Traning Autocad Tutorial with level beginners by Jeff Bartels.

Jeff Bartels has been using AutoCAD Tutorials Professionally since the program was a DOS-based application. As the CAD manager of a civil engineering firm in Illinois, Jeff is responsible for the production and oversight of large-scale subdivision plans and construction drawings, and the installation and configuration of AutoCAD.

He conducts weekly training workshops to ensure his CAD staff is current with the latest software. Jeff is a faculty member at two different colleges, where he teaches advanced AutoCAD courses. He is known for always giving 110 percent in the classroom, as well as for his ability to make complex concepts easy to understand. He provides on-site AutoCAD training for several businesses and schools, and produces training materials to help high school and college instructors teach AutoCAD in their classrooms.

Jeff is a regular instructor at the annual Illinois Drafting Educators Association conferences, where he consistently receives high marks for his seminars. When Jeff isn't at work or in the classroom, he enjoys spending time at home with his family. He is desperately trying to stay ahead of his children in Guitar Hero.


Hi! I'm Jeff Bartels. Welcome to Autocad Tutorials For Beginners . In this title we'll explore how AutoCAD helps us transition our designs from concept to construction. We'll start by looking at plotting. Whether you're creating a quick worksheet or a formal exhibit, I'll show you how you can easily create hard copies of your drawings that are printed to a measurable scale. Next, we'll learn how to tie our annotations to the plot scale. In the event the drawing is printed to a scale other than 1:1, AutoCAD's annotative property will ensure that text, dimensions, and callouts are properly sized on the printed sheet. We'll also explore how to share our drawings with others, even if they're not using the same CAD program as we are. Along the way, we'll look at the DWF file format. Using DWFs your clients can view and mark up your drawings without needing any CAD package at all. Finally, I'll give you an opportunity to take the skills you've learned in this title and apply Autocad Tutorials to a small project.

Autocad Tutorials For Beginners include:

Creating single-line text
Justifying text
Controlling appearance with styles
Creating bulleted and numbered lists
Annotating with multiline text
Correcting spelling errors
Creating continuous and baseline dimensions
Creating and modifying multileaders

INSTALLATION AutoCAD Essentials:
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What are layer In Autocad?

“Layers” is a concept that allows you to group drawn geometry in distinct and separate categories according to similar features or a common theme. This allows you to exercise control over your drawing by (among other things) applying properties to those groups such as assigning colors, or making them visible or invisible for clarity.
So, for example, all the walls of a floor plan will exist on the “Walls” layer, all the doors on the “Doors” layer, and windows on the “Windows” layer and so on. You can think of layers as transparency sheets in an Anatomy textbook, with each sheet showing a unique and distinct category of data, (skeleton, muscle, circulatory system, etc.) but when viewed all at once show the complete picture of a person. Similarly in AutoCAD there can be any number of layers (often the problem is using too many) with all of them holding their respective data and combining into the complete design.


Let’s take a look at all the layer features one by one.

Understanding Layer In Autocad with Video.

Creating and adjusting layers using the Layer Property Manager In Autocad

Using layer in Autocad to organize a drawing

Changing layer settings using layer control In Autocad

Understanding the BYLAYER property In Autocad

Using the Layer Previous command In Autocad

Creating and deleting layers
Each new layer in autocad needs to be initially typed in according to what you need or the company standard. To do that you need to highlight (click on) the layer 0 grey band. When it turns blue, simply press Enter once and the blue ribbon bar will jump to another line and create Layer 1. Another way to get a new layer is to press a button at the top of the layer box (two icons to the left of the red “X”) that looks like a sheet of paper with a sparkle next to it. Either way, once you do that, just type in the layer name followed by Enter. Some helpful tips:

• If you noticed that you made a spelling mistake after you already pressed Enter, you can just click back into the layer name once or twice until the cursor enters edit mode and retype.
• Do not attempt to change the “0” layer’s name. It is the default layer and cannot be deleted or renamed.
• If you want to delete a layer (perhaps an accidentally made one), simply highlight the layer, click the red
“X” and then Apply at the bottom right of the layer box. If the layer contains nothing it will be deleted.


Making a layer current.

This is simply the active layer that you are able to draw on at any given moment. You are always on some layer (even if you’re not immediately sure which one exactly). So logically if you are about to draw a wall, you should be in the A-Walls layer and so on. To specify what layer to have as current either click the green check mark button (to the right of the red “X”) or double-click the layer name itself. Go ahead and make A-Walls current.

Layer Freeze/Thaw and On/Off In Autocad .

Here we come to a very important part of the layers dialog box. Freeze and Thaw are opposites of the same
command, one that will make a layer disappear from view. The command will freeze or thaw the layer for the entire drawing. Pick a layer, highlight it, follow the band across to the “Freeze” column and underneath you will find a yellow “sun” icon. If you click it, that layer will “freeze” and the icon will become a blue “snowflake”. Clicking again will undo the action. So what does freeze mean? It will make the layer (or rather all the objects on that layer) disappear from view, but remember, they are NOT deleted, only invisible. You will use this feature routinely in drawings to control what is displayed. The On/Off feature represented by the light-bulb (yellow to blue and back) is essentially the same as Freeze/Thaw, with some subtle (and minor) details so we won’t go into them. You can use either method; though stay with Freeze/Thaw just to keep things consistent.

Layer Lock/Unlock in Autocad 2010 & 2012

This layer command, represented by the lock, does exactly that; it locks the layer so you can’t edit or erase it. The layer remains visible, but untouchable. The unlocked layer’s icon is blue and looks “unlocked,” while a locked layer’s lock will turn yellow and change to a “locked” position. Play around with all the buttons we mentioned thus far to get a feel for them. When done, make sure everything is reset (not locked or frozen) and click the “X” in the upper corner of the layer box to close it.

Layer in Autocad 2010, 2012 Tutorial with Video By Cad tutorial pdf

This video Hatching In autocad 2012 and 2011 with video tutorial no need pdf file

Hatch patterns have been a part of drafting since the days of paper and pencil. Well-placed hatch patterns can add visual interest to your drawings, as well as represent materials to be used for construction.In this lesson, we are going to learn how to create some hatches in Autocad 2012 and 2012.
We are going to use this geometry to learn how the Hatch command works. The Hatch command is located in the Draw panel of the ribbon.The icon is right here. This tab is where we can find all of the settings used to create our hatch.

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