AutoCAD Training Courses
Award-winning, small, friendly AutoCAD courses in London, online & across the UK.
Hands-on training using real-world drawings to practice what you are learning.
All courses are CPD certified and include 6 months post-course support.
Become a confident, capable AutoCAD user
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Our AutoCAD Courses
This course will have you creating CAD drawings from scratch in no time!
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Open and navigate AutoCAD.
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Creating & editing simple plans
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Using layers & adding dimensions
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Working faster with templates
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Outputting your work
Download full course detailsThe introductory session in this course explains the set up of AutoCAD and also introduces creating, saving and closing new drawings. It also gets you editing a simple existing drawing for the first time.
The key topics covered include:
- Understanding the AutoCAD 2D Environment
- Create, Save and Close a New Drawing
- Editing an Existing Drawing
Now that you have been introduced to AutoCAD we get started on the basics of drawings. We explain how co-ordinate systems work, how to create simple shapes and also how to snap objects together. We look at the basics of creating a new AutoCAD drawing.
The key topics covered include:
- Basic commands – LINE, ARC, CIRCLE
- Co-ordinate systems – UCS & WCS
- Precision Input
- Using Absolute, Relative and Polar Coordinates
- Object Snapping
- Selecting Groups of Objects
- Controlling the AutoCAD Environment
- Using GRIPS
This session focuses on editing a drawing once it has been created. We walk you through lots of the simple commands that AutoCAD contains. Examples include erase, copy and rotate but there are lots more that we cover in this session as you can see.
The key topics covered include:
- Erase
- Copy
- Move
- Mirror
- Array
- Rotate
- Scale
- Stretch
- Fillet Chamfer
- Trim End
- Break
- Change
- Offset
- Chamfer
- Fillet Erase
- New
- Zoom
- Limits
- Dim
- Divide
- Insert
Now that we’ve introduced creating and editing drawings we move onto higher level controls on drawings. We show you how to use layers, annotate your drawing and how to use templates to speed up your work.
The key topics covered include:
- Using Layers
- Adding Free Text
- Using Drawing Templates
- Adding Dimensions
- Dimension Style Families
This final session focuses on the various ways that you can output your drawing from AutoCAD.
The key topics covered include:
- Selecting a plotter / printer
- Generating Output
Build on your existing AutoCAD skills & learn to create more complex drawings.
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Presentation: styles, settings & tables
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Publishing & plotting drawings
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Annotation: Dimensions & tolerances
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Creating fine detail: blocks & attributes
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Layers: filters, standards & state manager
This introductory session shows you the more advanced skills of object drawing. It shows you how to create boundaries and regions, and also how to divide and measure objects, amongst other skills.
The key topics covered include:
- Multilines
- Revision Clouds
- Wipeouts
- Boundaries
- Regions
- Point Objects
- Dividing and Measuring Objects
- Geometric Construction
This session is focused on manipulating objects and data. The key areas that it focuses on explaining is how you purge objects in AutoCAD and also the various uses of the geometry calculator.
The key topics covered include:
- Purging Objects
- Geometry Calculator
This session focuses on the various styles and settings that AutoCAD contains to let you customise the presentation of your drawing. Editing your dimension styles lets you edit units, precision and line styles. Similarly there are multiple options available to ensure that your tables and multileaders are just as you would wish them.
The key topics covered include:
- Dimension Styles and Overrides
- Setting up Multileaders
- Creating and Modifying Tables
Once you have created your drawing you need to get it out of AutoCAD in order to be able to use it in the real world. This shows you the more advanced ways that AutoCAD lets you do this.
The key topics covered include:
- Plotter Configuration Files
- Plot Style Tables
- Publishing Drawings
Tables are used in drawings to show the dimensions and geometry of certain objects. Presenting this information clearly and concisely is important. AutoCAD includes a number of options to allow you to customise your table quickly and simply. We also cover how you can either import or export your tables from your drawing.
The key topics covered include:
- Table Styles
- Creating and Modifying Tables
- Creating Tables from External Data
- Advanced Table Contents
- Exporting and Importing Tables
Dimensioning lets you annotate your drawing by showing the exact measurements of some or all of its elements. Ensuring that your drawings are unambiguous is key when sharing them. There are multiple options available to ensure that your dimensions are clear and easily interpreted. This session will show you how this is done.
The key topics covered include:
- Introduction to Annotation Scaling for Dimensions and Text
- Centre Marks
- Ordinate, Baseline and Continuous Dimensions
- Geometric Tolerances
- Breaking Dimensions
- Quick Dimension
- Using Alternative Dimension text i.e. mm or inches
This is a shorter session which focuses on how you use multileaders for drawings in an engineering and architectural setting.
The key topics covered include:
- Using and creating multileaders for engineering and architectural applications
Blocks and attributes are key when working with detailed drawings. They allow you to annotate AutoCAD drawings with the exact details of a particular part of the drawing. So rather than showing a particular parts dimension, an attribute allows you to attach a variety of data to an individual item in your drawing, for example, price, unique identifier, comments or any other useful specific information.
The key topics covered include:
- Creating / Editing
- Annotative Blocks
- Data Extraction
Layers are overlapping views of your drawing. Different objects are attached to different layers. Selectively making your layers or visible or invisible you can add or remove these elements to your drawing. This makes working on and visualising complex drawings far simpler.
The key topics covered include:
- Layer Filters
- Layer States Manager
- Layer Standards
This session is all about how you present your completed drawings. A layout is a 2D space that lets you specify the the size of your drawings and a number of other key variables for your drawing. Viewports allow you to visualise the same drawing in different ways, for example, wireframe.
The key topics covered include:
- Creating Layouts and using Page Setups
- Creating Viewports
- Controlling Object Visibility in Viewports
- Annotation Scales and Viewports
Sheet sets are collections of sheets which you want to manage as a unit. For example, a number of different layouts of the same drawing might be used to produce a sheet set. This session leads you through the key elements of how to produce and manage your sheet sets in AutoCAD.
The key topics covered include:
- Creating and working with Sheet Sets
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Become an AutoCAD master & learn to use all of AutoCAD’s most technical tools
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Schematics & 2D isometric drawings
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Customising your tool palette
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Working with dynamic blocks
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Advanced layouts & object viewports
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The basics of AutoCAD 3D
The first session in this course covers advanced object creation. So drawing isometric (simulating a 3D view in 2D) objects, we show how you can create an object in parts and then assemble them into a final object and also create schematics.
The key topics trained include:
- 2D Isometric drawing
- Parts and assembly creation
- Schematic creation
This session focuses on how you use the dimensioning and annotation tools within AutoCAD when working with isometric objects.
The key topic trained is:
- Isometric dimensioning
This session is particularly useful for people who work full-time with AutoCAD. It shows you how you can customise the tool palettes to give you easier access to those that you use more frequently. It also shows you how to import files held in other formats into AutoCAD and then finally how to work with external drawing files.
The key topics trained include:
- Creating Tool Palettes
- Importing other file formats such as PDF
- External Reference drawing files
Dynamic blocks take the concept of blocks a step further. They allow you to edit a block once it has been inserted into your drawing without having to modify the block itself or creating a new block. This is especially useful for items that come in different sizes, for example doors. If you change the type of door when you have inserted one into your drawing, it can be edited in situ if your door is a dynamic block.
The key topic trained is:
- Introduction to creating and using Dynamic blocks
This session focuses on the most advanced features of layouts. It shows you how to achieve complete control of your viewports.
The key topics trained are:
- Viewports – Using object viewports
- Controlling – colour, line weight control and object within a viewport
This session introduces you to using AutoCAD 3D. There is a obviously a number of new key techniques and methods that a new user will need to be introduced to before moving on to looking at the more detailed features in AutoCAD 3D.
The key topics trained are:
- Overview of 3D modelling techniques
- Using the different modelling styles: Solid- Surface- Mesh
* Please Note –
3D tools are only available in the AutoCAD environment and not in AutoCAD LT
This session focuses on the differences in how you view your model. So how to control and customise the views of your 3D model.
The key topics trained include:
- View creation
- 3D manipulation
- View control
This session shows you the basics of creating 3D models in AutoCAD. It walks you through the most straightforward ways to create new 3D shapes.
It shows you how to use the following commands to create 3D models:
- – Extrude
- – Revolve
- – Sweep
This final session shows you how to create a drawing in 3D. It explains using angle views of your model and also how to create sections and work with elevations. It finishes by explaining how to enlarge sections of your model to create detailed views of it.
The key topics trained include:
- Creating 1st and 3rd angle views
- Plans
- Elevations
- Sections
- Enlarged detail views
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AutoCAD Training FAQs
For General FAQs and Booking questions, see our FAQ Page.
AutoCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) software for creating precise 2D drawings and 3D models.
Instead of drawing by hand, you can produce technical plans and design with precise measurements, angles and dimensions.
It’s most common uses include: Architecture, Engineering, Interior Design, Manufacturing and Construction.
If accuracy and sharing professional drawings are important to your work, AutoCAD is probably for you.
For most people in construction and architecture, the honest answer is you’ll eventually need both – but AutoCAD is the better place to start.
AutoCAD is a precise drafting tool, while Revit is a Building Information Modelling (BIM) platform. Instead of drawing lines, you build an intelligent 3D model of a building
The common real-world workflow is to use AutoCAD first, then Revit. AutoCAD teaches you the logic of technical drawings, which makes Revit significantly easier to learn afterwards.
AutoCAD is a professional 2D drafting tool with 3D capabilities, while SketchUp is a more intuitive, visually oriented 3D modelling tool popular for early-stage concept design.
SketchUp is often chosen for being quick and easy to pick up, making it useful for exploring design ideas visually.
AutoCAD, by contrast, is built for precision. It is the tool of choice when technical accuracy, accurate dimensions, and professional drawing standards are required.
Most architects and engineers who use SketchUp for concept work will still use AutoCAD to produce construction-ready documentation.
No, AutoCAD is teachable from scratch, and you do not need a design background to get started.
Our Introduction course is designed for complete beginners and covers the core skills needed to create and edit technical drawings confidently.
A basic understanding of your industry (architecture, engineering, construction, etc.) is helpful context, but not a technical requirement.
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London, WC2A 1AP
Tel: 0203 603 0150
Our City of London training centre sits in Holborn, one of central London’s most accessible locations. From the West End, Paddington, Liverpool Street or Canary Wharf – you’re rarely more than 20 minutes away.
See the full London location details here.
Online Courses
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
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James Anderson, Paul Earl Limited Trainee Electrical Design Engineer
Being able to apply scenarios relevant to my industry.
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I found the practical elements useful and enjoyable. Being given an exercise to tackle whilst being able to ask questions.
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Great teacher (Steve). Very informative and patient.
Jason Zeloof, Zeloof LLP (Truman Brewery) Business Analysy
Hands on training.
Naila Ahmed, London Borough of Enfield Technical Assistant
Enjoyed both days of the training course, covered a lot of basic things that I needed to learn.
Elijah Salami, Odyssey Consulting Graduate Civil Engineer
The teacher was friendly and very helpful during the course.
Nicholas Metcalfe, Odyssey Consulting Graduate Engineer
The tutor was very knowledgeable and helpful when it came to answering questions or offering support. Everything was explained very clearly and has helped me become much more confident on the fundamentals of AutoCAD. It is good that I have a USB to save files onto for reference.
Laurence Wickham, Zeloof LLP (Trumna Brewery) Event Operations
Learning to create floorplans.
Gary Pearce, Farnborough International Limited Technical Services Manager
Able to adapt the structure of the course to meet my needs.
Lucas Hodder-Jones, Tivoli Manufacturing Design Engineer
I understood a lot and learnt a lot.
Jo Childs, Surrey Country Council Quantity Surveyor
Lots of good information
Mina Ferro, London Borough or Enfield Technical Support Officer
The trainer was extremely helpful and explained at a good pace. Very knowledgeable.
Gary Lamont, Connect It Utility Services Limited Utilities Surveyor
Steve is a good trainer, time factor on exam was hard but he explained it well.
Alexander Pringle, Surrey County Council Assistant Traffic Engineer
Able to ask any questions as we went along. Also, attentive to individuals needs.
Donna Selby, Surrey County Council Assistant Traffic Engineer
The environment was very good. I enjoyed learning how this will improve my performance at work.
Phillip Guy, WDFG UK Ltd (World Duty Free Group UK Ltd.) Micro Space Planner
There was an opportunity on the second day to tailor the course around my companies need. The tutor was very friendly and adaptable.
Gavin Muir, Event Sales Executive
Steve our trainer was extremely knowledgeable and helped with any issues.
Daniel Laybourn, Project Manager
I liked how basic the course was at the beginning which led into the course becoming more complex at a comfortable pace.
Daniel Dei, Surrey County Council
It was very interactive given that there were only two of us on the course.
Paul Mackenzie, Director
Ty is so experienced, knowledgeable and conveyed this really well against the tasks and questions I had.
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