AutoCAD practical projects

Five progressive projects that combine the lessons into real drawings, from a simple floor plan to a detailed architectural drawing, each with a brief, steps, a checklist and a quiz.

5 projects · about 13.5 hours · free

Practical drafting projects

1. 1. Project 1: Draw a simple floor plan

   Your first complete drawing: a one-bedroom flat, about 9 × 7 metres, with walls, door and window openings, room names and overall dimensions.

   • • Set up a drawing in millimetres
   • • Draw external and internal walls with offset
   • • Cut door and window openings and add door swings

   90 min

2. 2. Project 2: A dimensioned residential floor plan

   Draw a three-bedroom house plan to a professional standard: blocks for doors and windows, full dimensioning, room labels with areas, and a scaled A3 sheet plotted to PDF.

   • • Plan a house layout from a written brief
   • • Use blocks with attributes for doors, windows and room tags
   • • Dimension the plan with chains and overall dimensions

   180 min

3. 3. Project 3: Office fit-out layout

   Lay out a small office inside an existing shell: partitions, meeting rooms, rows of workstations with arrays, and a furniture schedule extracted from block data.

   • • Work over a referenced base building
   • • Lay out workstations efficiently with arrays
   • • Use attribute blocks and extract a schedule

   150 min

4. 4. Project 4: Site plan

   Draw a residential site plan: plot the boundary from survey bearings and distances, place the house with setbacks, add the driveway, levels and a north point, and present it at 1:200.

   • • Draw a boundary from bearings and distances
   • • Place a building with setbacks and check them
   • • Add site features, levels and a north point

   150 min

5. 5. Project 5: Detailed architectural drawing

   Draw a typical external wall section from footing to roof at 1:20, with accurate construction layers, material hatches, notes, levels and a sheet that references back to the plan.

   • • Draw construction layers accurately at detail scale
   • • Apply material hatches consistently
   • • Annotate with keynotes, levels and dimensions

   240 min