ASCENT's AutoCAD® 2025 learning guides are designed for those using AutoCAD® 2025 with a Windows operating system. These guides are not designed for the AutoCAD for Mac software.

AutoCAD® 2025: Fundamentals is comprised of two learning guides - AutoCAD® 2025: Essentials and AutoCAD® 2025: Beyond the Basics. This 2-book set is a cost effective option for users looking to learn fundamental AutoCAD skills.

AutoCAD 2025: Essentials covers the essential core topics for working with the AutoCAD software. The guide begins with learning the basic tools for creating and editing 2D drawings. It then continues to explore the tools used to annotate drawings by adding text, hatching, dimensions, and tables. More advanced tools, such as working with blocks and setting up layouts, are introduced to improve your efficiency with the software. Not every command or option is covered, because the intent is to show the essential tools and concepts.

Topics Covered (Essentials):

• Understanding the AutoCAD workspace and user interface
• Using basic drawing, editing, and viewing tools
• Organizing drawing objects on layers
• Using reusable symbols (blocks)
• Preparing a layout to be plotted
• Adding text, hatching, and dimensions

AutoCAD 2025: Beyond the Basics continues from the topics covered in the AutoCAD 2025: Essentials guide. It covers more sophisticated techniques that extend your mastery of the software. For example, here you go beyond the basic skill of using a template to understand the process of setting up a template, creating annotation styles, and how to work with external references.

Topics Covered (Beyond the Basics)

• Using more advanced editing and construction techniques
• Adding parametric constraints to objects
• Creating local and global blocks
• Setting up layers, styles, and templates
• Attaching external references

Prerequisites

• Access to the 2025.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide might not be compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2024).
• A working knowledge of basic design/drafting procedures and terminology.
• A working knowledge of your operating system.

Total Number of Pages: 982
Total Hours: 40