AutoCAD 2000 Tutorials "Basics"

AutoCAD 2000 is a popular technical drawing application. This tutorial is aimed towards the beginner, allowing them to use the progam with ease within the application. Expert Author Adam Beare will go over the all the commands, menus and tools of the AutoCAD technical drawing package, along with the basics of drawing and drafting and setting out your work. Upon completion of the tutorial, you will have gained a good working know how of the drafting process,taking the project from design and in to a state where it is ready for the next step. To view a free tutorial click on one of the links below.

This training course is designed for fast learning and covers all the fundamental points of the application, all cds work on a mac or pc and no application is needed.

The links below are free AutoCad 2000 tutorials. The entire contents may be purchased either on CD or watched via the Online University


Setting Up AutoCAD
 Intro to AutoCAD
 Setting Up the Display Properties
 Confining AutoCADís Colors
 Auto Saves Etc....
 Getting to Know AutoCAD
 AutoCAD and its Areas

The Basics of AutoCAD
 The Menus
 The Toolbars
 The Drawing Area
 The Statues Area
 The Command Prompt
 The Command Structure
 The Smart Menu

The Basics of Setting up a Drawing
 The New Command and the New Drawing Wizards
 Setting Units
 Setting Drawing Limits

The Basics of Drafting
Coordinate system and Absolute Coordinate System
Relative Coordinate System
Polar Coordinate System
Direction and Distances
Ortho Tracking and Polar Tracking with Direction and Distances
How to Select and Un-Select
Layers and How to Use Them
Getting Around in Your Drawing Using the Zoom and Pan Commands
Grips Selection

Basics Drawing
The Basic Line
Ray
Contraction Line
Poly Line
Polygon
Rectang
Arc
Circle
Spline
Ellipse
Insert Block
Make Block
Point and Its Sub Commands
Hatch
End of Drawing Tools

The Basic Modify Commands I.E.
Properties
Match Properties
Edit Hatch
Edit Poly Line
Edit Spline
Edit Text
Erase
Copy Multi Copy
Mirror
Offset
Array
Move
Rotate
Scale
Stretch
Lengthen
Trim
Extend
Break
Chamfer
Fillet
Explode

Annotation
Intro to Annotation
Mtext
Using Single Line Text
Spelling Checker
Setting Up Text Style
Liner Dimension
Aligned Dimension
Ordinate Dimension
Radius Dimension
Diameter Dimensions
Angular Dimensions
Base line Dimensions
Continue Dimensions
Leader Dimensions
Tolerance Dimensions
Oblique Dimensions
Align Text
Dimension Styles
Setting Current Dimensions Style
QDim Dimensions
Tolerance Dimensions

The End product
What is a Layout
How to Use a Layout
How to Set up a Layout / Viewports and Layouts
Making Single Viewport
Making Polygonal Viewport
Making Viewports Out of Closed Shapes
Clipping Viewports
Setting Up Viewport So They Don't Plot
Using Layers in Viewports
Setting Dimension Text to Self Scale to the Layout
Using Pen Settings and Making Pen Settings
Plotting and Printing
Last Word on Pen Tables and Plotting