# AutoCAD Level I Course

Canonical URL: <https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/autocad-level-1>

## Overview

This beginner-friendly course gives you a solid grounding in essential AutoCAD skills. You’ll learn to handle printing and plotting layouts and sheets, move between model space and paper space, and scale drawings through viewports. The class also covers inserting blocks, creating text, producing dimensional drawings, and working with layers and templates. There are no prerequisites for enrollment.

## What you'll learn

- Learn core drawing and editing commands to create and modify lines, circles, rectangles, and more
- Master object snap, tracking, and coordinate input to ensure precision and accuracy in every drawing
- Organize and manage your work with layers, templates, and advanced object types like polylines and ellipses
- Apply real-world workflows to draw complex layouts, floor plans, and design elements for mechanical and architectural projects
- Insert, manage, and reuse blocks with tools like Tool Palettes and Design Center
- Prepare your drawings for print with layouts, viewports, annotations, and dimensioning tools

## Curriculum

#### 1: Getting Started with AutoCAD

- Opening and Creating Drawings
- Exploring the AutoCAD interface
- Zooming and Panning

#### 2: Basic Drawing & Editing Commands

- Using the Mouse, Keyboard, and Enter Key to work quickly and efficiently in AutoCAD
- Lines
- Circles
- Rectangles

#### 3: Projects - Creating a Simple Drawing

- Creating Simple Drawings
- Using Object Snap Tracking to extrapolate a projected top view
- Using Modify tools to arrange an office layout

#### 4: Drawing Precision in AutoCAD

- Polar and Ortho Tracking
- Entering Coordinates and Angles
- Object Snaps and Tracking

#### 5: Making Changes in Your Drawing

- Move
- Copy
- Rotate
- Mirror
- Scale
- Using the reference option with the Scale Tool

#### 6: Drawing Templates

- Using Template Files (.dwt) to Make New Drawing
- Exploring what Settings and Elements are saved with Templates

#### 7: Organizing Your Drawing with Layers

- Layer States
- Properties by Layer
- Layer Tools

#### 8: Advanced Object Types

- Polylines
- Arcs
- Polygons
- Ellipses

#### 9: Analyzing Model and Object Properties

- The Properties Palette
- Quick Select
- Select Similar
- Measure Geometry Tools

#### 10: Projects - Drawing Organization & Information

- Drill Plate
- Furniture Showroom

#### 11: Advanced Editing Commands

- Trim and Extend
- Fillet and Chamfer
- Polyline Edit and Spline
- Offset and Explode
- Join

#### 12: Inserting Blocks

- The Insert Block Command
- Inserting Blocks with Tool Palettes
- Dynamic Blocs
- Migrating Blocks and other Elements between Drawings with Design Center

#### 13: Projects - Creating More Complex Objects

- Starting a Floor Plan

#### 14: Setting Up a Layout

- Using Layouts and Viewports
- Scaling Viewports
- Model Space vs. Paper Space in Layouts

#### 15: Printing Your Drawing

- Printing from Layout Tabs
- Printing from the Model Tab

#### 16: Projects - Preparing to Print

- Making Layouts for a Banquette Hall

#### 17: Text

- The Multiline Text Tool
- The Single Line Text Tool
- Editing Text
- Text in Model Space vs. Paper Space
- The Multileader Tool

#### 18: Hatching

- The Hatch Command
- The Hatch Editor Ribbon Tab
- Saving and Applying Hatches with Tool Palettes

#### 19: Adding Dimensions

- Using Dimensioning Tools
- Dimensioning in a Layout Tab vs. the Model Tab
- Using Dimension Styles
- Editing Dimensions

#### 20: Projects - Annotating Your Drawing

- Dimensioning a Mechanical Drawing

## Schedule
- May 26, 2026 – May 28, 2026 — Live Online
- Jun 2, 2026 – Jun 18, 2026 — Live Online
- Jul 6, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026 — Live Online
- Aug 17, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026 — Live Online
- Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026 — Live Online
- Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026 — Live Online
- Nov 2, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026 — Live Online
- Nov 2, 2026 – Nov 18, 2026 — Live Online
- Dec 14, 2026 – Dec 16, 2026 — Live Online

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $599