Overview
AutoCAD II builds on your foundational AutoCAD knowledge and prepares you to work more efficiently and precisely in a professional drafting environment. This intermediate AutoCAD Certificate course expands your technical abilities, introducing tools and workflows that improve productivity, drawing organization, and collaboration.
In this micro-credential course, you’ll explore how to streamline your workflow by customizing AutoCAD’s workspace, using tool palettes, and managing multiple drawings at once. You’ll learn to position objects accurately using coordinates, construction lines, and tracking tools, and apply parametric constraints to control relationships between objects for greater consistency in your designs.
As you progress, you’ll use blocks, templates, and layers to organize your work and maintain drawing standards across projects. You’ll also learn advanced layout and plotting techniques — using multiple viewports, named views, and layer overrides — to prepare professional drawing sets ready for presentation or production. Working with external reference files, you’ll practice linking and sharing information between drawings, an essential skill for collaborative engineering and design projects.
Throughout the course, you’ll complete guided assignments and a portfolio project that combine accuracy, efficiency, and design intent. You’ll work independently in an online format, supported by instructor feedback that helps you refine your drawings and solve real-world drafting challenges.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to use intermediate AutoCAD tools with confidence, organize complex drawings, apply precise constraints, and produce professional-quality layouts and plotted outputs. These skills will prepare you for advanced coursework or entry-level drafting roles across engineering, architecture, and manufacturing design environments.
This course is ideal if you:
- want to advance from beginner to intermediate-level AutoCAD proficiency
- work in or plan to enter fields such as architecture, engineering, or manufacturing
- are a designer or drafter who needs to apply industry-standard practices to improve accuracy and workflow
- seek practical AutoCAD experience to support project collaboration or technical documentation.
You must complete CADD 112 - AutoCAD I before registering for this course.
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- use the AutoCAD workspace to improve drafting time and drawing production
- accurately position objects using coordinates, tracking, construction lines, and reference points
- create and modify parametric constraints to control the relationship between objects in your drawings
- use, edit, and add blocks to a palette to employ symbols within a drawing
- create templates, layers, and layouts to maintain standards when producing a drawing
- create advanced layouts for plotting and print production using named views and multiple viewports
- adding layer overrides, and modifying annotative scales to manipulate layouts in paper space
- open, attach, and work effectively with reference files to share information between drawings within a project
- create a 2D Isometric Drawing.
To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.
Individuals with AutoCAD training and industry experience can take exams through Autodesk to become a Autodesk Certified User (ACU) or Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP) in AutoCAD. This SAIT AutoCAD certificate program will help you build relevant skills and experience that support preparation for these certifications. Learn more about Autodesk certifications.
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After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Micro-Credential
Aligned to current industry standards, SAIT’s micro-credentials develop practical, real-world skills and include competency-based testing. Earning a SAIT micro-credential demonstrates to employers you have the required competencies — both skills and knowledge — to get the job done.
Students who successfully complete this course with a final grade of A- (80%) or higher will earn a micro-credential and receive a shareable digital badge.
Costs
Textbook and reading list
Included in the purchase of this course, you'll receive:
- Access to online course content in Brightspace (D2L)
- Access to a free version of the AutoCAD software for use during the course. Software download instructions will be provided in the D2L shell.
The following textbook is required and can be purchased from the SAIT Bookstore website:
- AutoCAD 2025 Tutorial First Level 2D Fundamentals by Luke Jumper & Randy H. Shih, 2024, SDC Publications
Note: Make sure the book you purchase matches the AutoCAD version used in your course section. The SAIT Bookstore carries the current and most recent previous versions.
Technology
To be successful in this course, you’ll need:
- Access to your own computer or laptop that meets system requirements for AutoCAD and standard hardware/software requirements to use D2L
- Internet access.
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants, including the Canada Alberta Productivity Grant.
Applicable certificates
This course applies to the following certificate programs:
- Certification type
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Certificate of Completion
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