Autocad Mac Course For Absolute Beginners

The only AutoCAD Mac course to learn everything you need for your architecture or interior design project

What you'll learn

Learn the essential concepts of AutoCAD and how it works

Setup units, Annotation Styles, and layers

Setup pages and layout to prepare drawings for Pdf Export

Work with groups and blocks to save time & become efficient quickly

Creating a complete architectural set of plans, elevations, and sections

Requirements

Having your own license of AutoCAD Mac or AutoCAD Mac LT

This course assumes you have some experience reading blueprints

No prior experience required in AutoCAD or AutoCAD Mac

Description

A project-based course made for AutoCAD Mac users and focused on architecture & interior designs students and professionals. This is the only course that solely focuses on AutoCAD Mac without any mention of the windows version.This course is focused and narrowed to the absolute essential concepts to learn, to help you get up to speed on AutoCAD in no-time! You will learn over 50 commands & concepts and guarantee for you to become an advanced user by the end of the course. For your reference, I am using AutoCAD 2023 for Mac but previous versions can follow along and should not have any trouble using all the commands and concepts mentioned. This course is perfect for the AEC industry including: DraftersContractors Architects Interior designersEngineers I designed this course to teach two core elements: How to use AutoCAD efficiently Learn an excellent workflow to build up your projectOn top of the lectures, you get a WEALTH of resources to help you create projects in No-Time!  Great VALUE for your investmentResources included Are: AutoCAD blocks and libraries. AutoCAD standard Annotation Styles For Text, Dimensions, and LeadersStandard Layers list for architecture & interior design projects. Standard Title blocks to use for your projects. Cheat sheets to print and reference for excellent learning experience. Complete project file to reference. I will cover all the major concepts in AutoCAD to help you create a complete project from scratch. Topics include: Learning the interfaceDrawing commands Modifying commands Annotation commands (text, dimenions, leaders) Working with Layers Creating Groups Creating & editing Blocks Layouts & sheets Setting different page sizes Viewports Drawing Scale Printing to Pdf a single sheet.Printing multiple sheets. In this course, I will teach you how to draw: Floor planRoof planExterior elevations Interior elevations Sections This course will be a continued effort and additional material will kept getting added as I create additional material to cover additional topics such as:Creating a template file Adding details to use later onCombining different AutoCAD projects Combining sets with structural drawingsPutting a complete Architectural project set togetherCreating detailed interior elevations Creating detailed furniture

Overview

Section 1: Essentials

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Status Bar and The Units

Lecture 3 Drawing Commands

Lecture 4 Control Points - Vertex or Verteces

Lecture 5 Modifying Commands

Lecture 6 Snap Settings

Lecture 7 Drawing An Outline

Lecture 8 Adding Dimensions and Dimension Style Manager

Lecture 9 Importing Dimension Styles

Section 2: Starting with the Project

Lecture 10 Customizing Shortcuts

Lecture 11 Adding Walls Thickness with Offset Command

Lecture 12 Adding interior layout

Lecture 13 Cleaning Layout lines with Trim

Lecture 14 Placing Room Names with Text command

Lecture 15 Text Editing and Importing Text Styles

Section 3: Saving a Project & File Formats

Lecture 16 Main File Formats in AutoCAD

Section 4: Detailing The Floor Plan

Lecture 17 Creating Openings in the Floor Plan

Lecture 18 Adding Openings - Part 2

Lecture 19 Adding Openings - Part 3

Lecture 20 Using Line Types & Linetype Scale

Lecture 21 Group and Ungroup Commands

Lecture 22 Drawing Doors

Lecture 23 Using Blocks

Lecture 24 Using Blocks Library & Dynamic Blocks

Lecture 25 Layers - Part 1

Lecture 26 Layers - Part 2

Lecture 27 Layers - Part 3

Lecture 28 Furnishing Bedrooms & Bathrooms - Part 1

Lecture 29 Adding Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipments | part 3

Lecture 30 Adding Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipments | part 2

Lecture 31 Drawing the Kitchen

Lecture 32 Drawing the Living Room

Lecture 33 Drawing Dining Room & Adding Casework

Lecture 34 Adding Steps and Railings

Lecture 35 Using Stretch Command

Lecture 36 Finishing Steps and patio areas

Lecture 37 Hatch command

Lecture 38 Hatch Customization

Lecture 39 Adding Plants & Finishing Floor Plan

Section 5: Project Setup For Printing

Lecture 40 Paper Space & Page Setup Manager

Lecture 41 Working with Viewport & Using Print Command

Lecture 42 Scale & Using Multiple Viewports

Lecture 43 Locking Viewport Scale

Lecture 44 Drawing A Titleblock - Part 1

Lecture 45 Drawing A Titleblock - Part 2

Lecture 46 Copying the Titleblock

Beginner AutoCAD users for Architecture,Beginner AutoCAD users for Interior Design,Professionals in the AEC industry,AutoCAD users who want to learn a complete project workflow