The CAD tutorial lane: 6,300 videos, a 43-minute build, no verified CPM double
Three faceless CAD-tutorial operators - a 6,313-video daily course, a 43-minute build channel and a five-minute exercise library behind two Udemy links - priced on the same fields, with the ad-versus-course arithmetic on the page.
The design-software tutorial lane teaches a program with a screen recording and a voice. There is no host, no set and no camera. The product is a narrated capture of AutoCAD, Fusion or SolidWorks, one command or one part at a time.
The subject never runs out. Every engineering student, drafter and 3D-printing hobbyist needs the same dozen operations. Each yearly software release resets the shelf that teaches them.
The lane's biggest English-language course builders have gone quiet. Product Design Online holds 391,000 subscribers and 259 public videos. Its newest upload is day fifteen of a Fusion series posted on June 15, 2026 12. The Fusion Essentials holds 75,100 subscribers and has published nothing since June 25, 2024 3.
Above them sit the channels this report excludes by size. CAD CAM Tutorials holds 675,000 subscribers, SourceCAD 683,000 and CAD CAM Tutorial by Mahtabalam 711,000 456. The 3D-printing neighbour tier adds 3D Printer Academy at 535,000 and Skills Factory at 527,000 78.
The middle of the lane, where a solo operator could sit, is held by three channels. They publish from Indonesia, Pakistan and Portugal, and all three run on a laptop and a microphone.
All three clear one upload a week. They disagree about how long an episode should be, and that disagreement is the useful part.
What this measures, and what stays closed
Every figure below was read on November 3, 2026. Subscribers, lifetime views, public video counts and the daily activity table come from Social Blade. Creation dates, declared countries and channel descriptions come from YouTube's channel records. Upload dates come from complete upload lists, and runtimes and view counts from per-video records.
Social Blade's 30-day summary did not load in this run. The measured window is therefore its daily table, October 20 to November 2. Every view figure and earnings range below covers those fourteen days.
The revenue field is a range built from public activity assumptions, and it reads as money earned in that window. A rate per thousand views is a different number. The gap between the two is the last section of this article.
Two fields stay closed. Browse, Suggested and Search shares exist only inside a channel's own analytics, so that column reads undisclosed for all three. The six-month doubling is unverified, because no public source publishes a CPM or RPM figure for these channels at two points in time. Audits are ordered by measured views, largest reach first.
| Channel | Niche tag | Subscribers | Views, 14 days to Nov 2 | Uploads, 91 days | Est. ad revenue, same 14 days | Episode length | Browse / Suggested / Search | Rate gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mufasu CAD | One command per episode, numbered seasons | 232,000 9 | 299,344 9 | At least 50 | $77–$1,283 9 | 1:57–2:52 | Undisclosed | Unverified |
| CADable | One mechanical build per episode | 27,900 10 | 131,228 10 | 46 | $36–$558 10 | 7:02–43:07 | Undisclosed | Unverified |
| CAD in black | Beginner exercises cut from longer lessons | 315,000 11 | 102,313 11 | 17 | $28–$458 11 | 5:29–6:58 | Undisclosed | Unverified |
Mufasu CAD: one command, one upload, most days
Niche tag: single-command AutoCAD episodes, published inside numbered seasons.
The channel holds 232,000 subscribers, 6,313 public videos and 84,278,447 lifetime views. It was created on September 23, 2011 and declares Indonesia 12. Social Blade reports 299,344 views in the fourteen days to November 2, the largest reach of the three, on an estimated $77 to $1,283 9.
The clock is the tightest in the lane. Fifty uploads sit between August 23 and November 3, where the page of results ran out. The real count is higher 12. They arrive in twos and threes on the same day, the pattern of a recording session that produces a week of a course at once.
An episode is one tool. Four consecutive lessons run 2 minutes 52 seconds on the line tool, 2 minutes 22 seconds on dynamic input, 1 minute 57 seconds on coordinates and 1 minute 59 seconds on selection 13141516. The titles carry the software year, the season number and the tool, in that order.
Packaging is a blue field with white capitals and a red cube standing in for the Autodesk mark. A cyan "FULL COURSE" bar and the season number sit below. No person appears in any of the four thumbnails. Each description is one sentence of instruction plus three hashtags, with no links and no course.
Why the rate could be moving. The lane's advertiser pool prices above entertainment. vidIQ's niche guide, published April 20, 2026 and reviewed May 29, 2026, puts education and career development at $8 to $20 CPM and B2B software at $10 to $30 17.
A three-minute episode cannot carry a mid-roll. YouTube sells mid-roll ads only on monetized videos of eight minutes or longer 18.
The ad surface here is the pre-roll and the Shorts pool, multiplied by a catalogue of 6,313 videos. The channel description invites software companies to promote their products on it, which is the revenue line a short format leaves room for 12.
Replication play: one command per clip, cut from a course you already teach.
- The OFFSET command in ninety seconds, including the gap setting nobody changes.
- What breaks when a drawing arrives with the wrong units, and the two-click fix.
- Layer states: freezing a layer against turning it off, and which one survives a plot.
- Dynamic blocks: one door block that resizes without exploding.
- Plot scales explained once, from a 1:50 detail to a 1:100 sheet.
The operator test is reuse. One recorded session yields eight clips if you script them as a season, and the season number does the work a playlist would.
CADable: a forty-three-minute build, drawn to a print
Niche tag: one complete mechanical assembly per episode, modelled from a dimensioned drawing.
The channel holds 27,900 subscribers, 527 public videos and 4,973,807 lifetime views. It was created on October 15, 2016 and declares Pakistan 19. Social Blade reports 131,228 views in the fourteen days to November 2, on an estimated $36 to $558 10.
Cadence clears the filter with room: 46 uploads between August 5 and November 1, about three and a half a week 19.
The episode shape is the opposite of Mufasu's. A belt roller support assembly runs 43 minutes 7 seconds 20. Base, bracket, roller, bush and pin are modelled in turn, then assembled with the toolbox and smart fasteners, then exploded into a parts view.
Shorter uploads run 8 minutes 1 second on a cycloid curve, 7 minutes 48 seconds on an isometric exercise and 7 minutes 2 seconds on text wrapped around a sphere 212223.
Descriptions are chapter lists in the vocabulary of the trade: exploded view, Smart Fasteners, revolved boss, clearance hole. The same paragraph then offers paid one-to-one sessions by email, and asks for assignment and final-year-project questions 20.
Reach per upload is the thinnest of the three. The 43-minute build took 219 views in its first two days, the cycloid lesson 195 and the isometric exercise 485. The catalogue averages 9,438 lifetime views per video, and the channel stands at 28,000 subscribers after ten years.
Why the rate could be moving. This is the only channel in the issue whose long episodes clear the eight-minute line. One build is long enough to sell several mid-rolls 18.
Most of its uploads still land between seven and eight minutes, which buys watch time and forfeits mid-roll inventory on the same day. The declared country is Pakistan, and where the audience sits decides what an impression is worth.
Replication play: one assembly per episode, published with the drawing on screen.
- A pillow-block bearing assembly from a two-view print, including the shaft tolerance.
- A sheet-metal bracket: flat pattern first, then the bend, then the corner relief.
- A weldment frame with cut-list output, so the episode ends in a buy list.
- A gearbox housing with a section view, showing the two drafted ribs.
- An exploded view and bill of materials for a clamp, built backwards from the parts.
The operator test is the print. Each of these subjects exists as a public engineering drawing or a manufacturer's catalogue page, and an episode that names its source has something to cite.
CAD in black: five-minute exercises behind a course
Niche tag: beginner exercises cut from longer lessons, in AutoCAD and Revit.
The channel holds 315,000 subscribers, 346 public videos and 35,301,383 lifetime views. It was created on November 3, 2015, eleven years to the day before this window closed, and declares Portugal 24.
Social Blade reports 102,313 views in the fourteen days to November 2. That is the smallest reach of the three despite the largest subscriber count, on an estimated $28 to $458 11.
Seventeen uploads sit between August 5 and November 2, roughly one every five days 24.
An episode is a five-minute slice of a longer lesson. Windows in an elevation run 5 minutes 38 seconds, a door block 5 minutes 29 seconds, angled lines on a roof 6 minutes 58 seconds 252627. Each description opens by naming the full tutorial the clip came from.
Thumbnails are the clearest in the lane. A dark navy drawing ground carries one white capitalised keyword, a yellow sub-line and a red arrow or yellow box on the exact detail. Titles name the program first and the operation second, which is how viewers type them.
The revenue stack is a course funnel. Every description carries two Udemy links, AutoCAD for beginners and Revit for beginners, each with a coupon code attached 25. The five-minute uploads are the free sample, and the paid product sits one click away.
The catalogue, not the uploads, carries the reach. A 2015 walkthrough of a floor plan has 3,103,979 views 28. The November 2 upload took 597 views and the October 19 exercise 1,121 2527. Two of its six most recent uploads have left CAD entirely and teach Google Maps and Waze 2930.
Why the rate could be moving. A 315,000-subscriber channel drawing 7,000 views a day is the clearest case here of a subscriber count that stopped predicting reach. Its episodes sit between five and seven minutes, so no mid-roll fits inside any of them 18.
The money is in the two course links, and the videos exist to feed them.
Replication play: one exercise per clip, with the drawing visible while you draw it.
- An elevation built from a floor plan, window by window.
- Isometric to orthographic in one drawing, on one sheet.
- Dimension styles: why the arrows shrink, and the two settings that fix it.
- Hatch scale inside a detail view, at 1:5 and at 1:50.
- A title block and revision table that survive a PDF plot.
The operator test is the length. Any of these is a slice of a lesson you can sell, and the slice is what the search query asks for.
Evidence gate
Social Blade's range cannot answer the rate question, and the arithmetic shows why. Divide each fourteen-day estimate by that channel's fourteen-day views. Mufasu CAD returns $0.26 to $4.29 per thousand, CADable $0.27 to $4.25, and CAD in black $0.27 to $4.48.
Three channels of three sizes and three countries produce one band. That is the estimator's flat per-view assumption, and it is a property of the estimator rather than a fact about the lane.
One dated source brackets the category. vidIQ's guide was published on April 20, 2026 and reviewed on May 29, 2026. It prices education and career development at $8 to $20 CPM, B2B software at $10 to $30, and technology at $5 to $30, with enterprise and developer content at the top of that range 17.
The same guide reports October to December as peak CPM season, with November and December at double or triple the yearly average for some creators. January opens 50 percent or more below the December peak. None of those figures belongs to a named channel, so the doubling gate stays open this week.
The format constraint is measurable, and it cuts against the lane. Nine of the eleven sampled episodes run under eight minutes, the length below which YouTube sells no mid-rolls at all 18. A lane with education-grade advertiser demand, publishing almost entirely inside a no-mid-roll format, keeps its ad revenue small whatever happens to CPM.
For an operator, the number worth owning is the one no third party can model. Record one definition of RPM every week for eight weeks on the same weekday: revenue, monetized playbacks, viewer geography, average view duration and traffic sources.
That series will say whether this lane's rate is climbing long before any range on this page can. It is the only version of the number that will ever be yours.
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