CADTutor: The best free help for AutoCAD on the web

Random Tutorials

A random selection of tutorials

Stage 5: Create Houses, Roadlines and Fences

Elements of a scene such as houses are classed as "Objects". Objects are items that sit on the landform terrain or conform to its surface. They are usually positioned in AutoCAD using blocks or lines. This stage describes the process for creating houses (including roofs), fences and road lines.

Popularity: 4.66 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 30,813

Drawing Aids

All about drawing aids.

Popularity: 59.88 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 436,938

Surfaces

The first and perhaps most crucial stage in creating a 3D landscape scene is the creation of accurate and seamless surfaces. This tutorial explores a number (not all) of techniques for creating quick and accurate surfaces from 2D lines and should give the user a feel for the range of tools available.

Popularity: 8.65 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 57,287

Modifying Objects

This tutorial runs through all of the modify tools, demonstrating practical examples in each case.

Popularity: 107.45 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 784,025

Publishing your Website

This tutorial explains how publish your website from within Microsoft FrontPage.

Popularity: 3.45 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 25,160

Stage 6: Lighting and Shadows

Lighting outdoor scenes involves the setup of a Sunlight or Daylight system, together with ambient light. This tutorial uses Quickscape Sunlight and Shadows to automatically setup a Sunlight System with some environment settings and including the use of a Quickscape Light Dome for added natural ambient light.

Popularity: 3.83 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 25,379

Basic 3D and Surface Modelling

Although AutoCAD has a number of commands for creating special 3D objects, a lot can be achieved by changing the properties of basic 2D objects like polylines. This tutorial provides a basic introduction to creating and viewing 3D objects.

Popularity: 97.48 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 711,304

AutoCAD 2010: 3D Scale & 3D Align

This tutorial introduces the 3D Scale and 3D Align tools. Although 3D Scale is a bit of a damp squib, 3D Align is very powerful and can get you out of all sorts of scrapes if you know how to use it correctly. Running time: 3min 42sec

Popularity: 8.49 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 50,552

Loft Mapping

This tutorial follows on from the simple Loft tutorial in Options for Creating Objects and demonstrates how to map a material along a lofted object.

Popularity: 10.3 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 68,201

Setting up your own free Web Space

Getting your website online could cost you nothing. This tutorial explores the various options for free web hosting.

Popularity: 4.62 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 33,712

Local Navigation

Featured Tutorial

AutoCAD 2010: The 3D Primitives

AutoCAD 2010: The 3D Primitives | AutoCAD

This tutorial follows on from the Getting ready for 3D tutorial and describes how each of the 3D primitives work. Running time: 15min 10sec

Sponsored Links

Accessibility statement

Valid XHTML 1.0!Valid CSS!Creative Commons Licence