Drawing Objects CADTutor

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

Drawing Aids CADTutor

Just as you have a parallel motion and set squares to help you draw horizontal and vertical lines on a drawing board, AutoCAD has similar drawing aids which can help you to draw horizontal and vertical lines on a computer.

Direct Distance Entry CADTutor

Direct distance entry enables you to draw an object, such as a line, by pointing in a particular direction with the cursor and entering a distance at the command line.

Adding Sunlight to Your Drawings CADTutor

Once you start working with solid models and rendering them, you will want to add lighting effects to your model.

All About Shadows CADTutor

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.

Venturing into Plotting Stephen Peter, USNW

In this fourth (and final) AutoCAD tutorial you will learn how to plot drawings. In doing this you will learn about paper space and viewports.

Object Snap CADTutor

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

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