AutoCAD
AutoCAD as a planner uses it: a scaled 2D layout or master plan, drawn over a georeferenced base, with plot areas that compute correctly and a sheet that plots at 1:1000 without argument. Not the mechanical-drafting or 3D-modelling AutoCAD that most tutorials teach.
Needed across Assistant Town Planner / Planning Officer (State), Planner — State Housing Board / Slum Redevelopment Authority, Planner — Metropolitan / Development Authority (DDA, MMRDA, HMDA, CIDCO), Real-Estate Development / Land Advisory / Research, Planner / Senior Planner — Urban & Regional Planning Consultancy
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Course outline
Learn from selected clips, concept by concept
Concept 1
The drawing environment, and setting units before anything else
AutoCAD में Units और Drawing Setup कैसे करें | AutoCAD Tutorial in Hindi I AutoCAD Units Setting
Ram Khilawan · Hindi · beginner
Why this clip: The video demonstrates how to set drawing units via the UN command, adjust dimension units, and verify the setting by drawing and measuring a line in model space.
First Setting in AutoCAD before Drawing for civil engineer
Civil Concept · English · beginner
Why this clip: This segment clearly demonstrates setting drawing units, dimension styles, and workspace limits in AutoCAD using the command line.
Concept 2
Drawing precisely: coordinates, snaps and tracking
After: drawing-environment-and-units
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Concept 3
Layers, and why a planning drawing lives or dies by them
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Concept 4
The commands you will actually use all day
After: precision-drawing
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Concept 5
Closed polylines and getting an area you can defend
After: draw-and-modify
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Concept 6
Blocks for the things you draw a hundred times
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Concept 7
Text, dimensions and annotation that survives scaling
After: layers, draw-and-modify
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Concept 8
Hatching land use without freezing the drawing
After: polylines-and-areas, layers
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Concept 9
Drawing over a scaled base map
After: precision-drawing, layers
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Concept 10
Bringing in survey points and GIS data
After: base-maps-and-xrefs
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Concept 11
Plotting to a stated scale, on a stated sheet
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Concept 12
Putting it together: a plotted layout plan
After: polylines-and-areas, hatching, base-maps-and-xrefs, layouts-and-plotting
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What was rejected
11 candidates did not meet the course criteria.
- is interior-design or furniture-layout content
- Is a tool-palette feature tour with no drawing produced
- The video demonstrates layer creation on a blank canvas without altering linetypes or lineweights, and does not show an actual drawing using these layers.
- computes area of a shape without addressing whether the boundary is closed
- computes area of a shape without addressing whether the boundary is closed
- Is mechanical GD&T, tolerancing or engineering-drawing symbol content; or places text at a default height with no discussion of plot scale
- Does not cover pattern scale adjustment, transparency settings, or specific land use hatch patterns.
- applies a hatch without addressing scale or boundary problems
- Does not demonstrate adding or inserting a title block on the sheet.
- covers the print dialog without establishing a scale relationship
- This video is part 1 of a tutorial series and ends before the layout plan is fully completed.
Where this skill is used
Assistant Town Planner / Planning Officer (State)
The standard senior-graduate entry into a state Town & Country Planning department, development authority, or municipal corporation. You prepare and scrutinise development plans, enforce land-use and building regulations, process layout approvals, and support master-plan work. Specialisation tags: Urban, Regional (general); Transport/Environmental/Housing/Infrastructure where the cadre is specialised. The single most common formal government destination for an M.Plan.
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Explore path →Planner — State Housing Board / Slum Redevelopment Authority
Planning for public/affordable housing and slum redevelopment — layout planning, PMAY implementation, in-situ rehabilitation, and housing policy. In most states this is a deployment, deputation, or portfolio within the unified Town & Country Planning cadre rather than a standalone housing-board exam. Specialisation tags: Housing, Urban.
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Explore path →Planner — Metropolitan / Development Authority (DDA, MMRDA, HMDA, CIDCO)
Planning roles inside large urban development authorities and parastatals that build and regulate metro-scale development — master plans, town-planning schemes, land development, and large infrastructure projects. Often better-resourced and better-paid than small-state T&CP. Specialisation tags: Urban, Infrastructure, Transport.
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Explore path →Real-Estate Development / Land Advisory / Research
Working for developers, land/real-estate advisory firms (JLL, CBRE, Knight Frank, Anarock) and in-house development teams on feasibility, market research, land use, and project planning. A natural fit for a planning + real-estate lens. Specialisation tags: Urban, Housing, Infrastructure.
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Explore path →Planner / Senior Planner — Urban & Regional Planning Consultancy
Consultancy work preparing master plans, development plans, town-planning schemes, and area development for government clients and authorities — from boutique planning houses to large multidisciplinary consultancies (incl. L&T and the planning divisions of global engineering firms). The default private destination; campus-recruited. Specialisation tags: Urban, Regional, Urban Design.
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