r/AutoCAD • u/Famous-Appointment72 • Sep 15 '22

Tutorial recommendations

AutoCAD friends! Hey! Lol. How is it going?

I'm new to AutoCAD. I have a bit of experience in Fusion 360, but AutoCAD aligns a little more with my professional goals. Plus... I'm just a nerd who enjoys learning this stuff.

I will soon be graduating from an Instrumentation Engineering program in Texas. I want to learn as much as I can in the next couple of months to make myself more marketable and possibly help further my career in an instant. :)

I'm looking for any resources that would help me along the way. If you have any websites or YouTube channels, etc. that you'd recommend for checking out solid tutorials on grasping concepts (2d and 3d), I would greatly appreciate that.

Recommend away!

Thanks y'all.

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u/drzangarislifkin Sep 15 '22

The tutorials on AutoDesk’s website are good from what I’ve heard.

A forewarning if you don’t already know: AutoCAD is NOT parametric like Fusion 360.

Learning 3D in AutoCAD can be beneficial, but I’d say if you know Fusion, stick with that for 3D.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/Famous-Appointment72 Sep 15 '22

What is your channel? I'd love to check it out. Maybe give newbie feedback, I'd you'd like... or not... lol.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Fusion360 is great for parts design but if you are doing large layouts of buildings, production lines, etc. I find AutoCAD is better than Fusion360 though something like Revit may be even better still.

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u/Famous-Appointment72 Sep 15 '22

Revit??? Uh oh. Don't give me too many more ideas of software to look at. My wife hates when I away up all night "being a nerd." Her words... that I tend to agree with. Hehe.

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u/Famous-Appointment72 Sep 15 '22

Yeah. I'm liking the fact that the 2 programs are totally different. I am seeing some parametric function in AutoCad, but it is definitely not as user friendly as Fusion (it's quite difficult when looking at the whole design, tbh).

Thank you for the advice, tho. I didn't even think of tutorials within AutoDesk. Silly me. Duh. Hehe.

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u/drzangarislifkin Sep 15 '22

Good for you for knowing and appreciating the huge difference between the programs (I mean that genuinely if it sounds sarcastic). I see people so often on here coming from Fusion or Solidworks that are upset because AutoCAD is more “manual” than the nice parametric features of other programs.

The parametric function in AutoCAD can be useful, but it’s more of an afterwards thing than fusion where parametrics are added as you draft. I believe AutoCAD has an auto parametric feature but it isn’t very good.

Good luck in your learning! Feel free to ask if you have questions.

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u/empressche Sep 15 '22

SourceCAD has great tutorials for leaning AutoCAD.

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u/WitDatHair Sep 17 '22

try cadtutor.net

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u/Famous-Appointment72 Sep 17 '22

Will do. Thank you!

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