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Title: Basic To AutoCAD Chapter 1
Description: This is basic notes to AutoCAD. It is suitable for AutoCAD 2015.

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INTRODUCTION TO CAD

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Identify between CAD and conventional
drawing

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(Wisegeek)
Help people design buildings, products or public spaces
without having to draw up plans by hand
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and offered a personal
solution to software that was previously released only for
larger workstations
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AutoCAD suppor ts a number of APIs for customization and
automation
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CAD used to design cur ves and figures in two-dimensional
(2D) space; or cur ves, sur faces, and solids in threedimensional (3D) objects
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Designers only need to make a simple sketch of the design
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All angles of a drawing can be shown
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Exact copies of drawings can be produced quickly
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Objects can be viewed as animation
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AutoCAD uses both standard
toolbars and a pull down menu
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In Autodesk AutoCAD, they have special type such as Autodesk
AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture, Autodesk
AutoCAD Electrical etc
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2 EXPLAIN
THE USE OF
COMMANDS
IN CAD

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KEYBOARD
Type in the command at the command prompt window and
press Enter or Space Bar
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SCREEN MENU
The screen menu is a command space that is located on the
right of the screen
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SCREEN MENU
This menu available since the first version of AUTOCAD
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Tablets were popular in years past as a means of command
input but are not used much today
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BUTTON MENU
The menu is for a pointing device with multiple buttons
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The coordinates of the selected point are then entered when
the ‘PICK’ button of the pointing device is pressed
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The pull down menus offer a quicker way to access the most
commonly used commands available in AutoCAD
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THE USE OF
COMMANDS
IN CAD

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EXPLAIN THE USE OF COMMANDS IN CAD
Once a command has been entered, in many instances
AutoCAD requires additional input
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The following are 3 methods in which data that are points
may be entered
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Example: LINE from 50, 50 to 100,70 will draw a line from the
position vector of 50, 50 to the position vector of 100,70

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ABSOLUTE COORDINATE

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ABSOLUTE COORDINATE
Values are relatives to 0,0 (the origin)
0,2

2,2

Command : Line
From point : 0,0
To point : 2,0
To point : 2,2
To point : 0,2
To point : 0,0 @ c
0,0

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RELATIVE COORDINATE
Represents the relative position of x and y coordinates of the
new point compared to the previous point
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You can specify a point as an offset from the last
point you entered
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LINE Specify first point : 50, 50 ↵
Specify next point or [undo] : @50, 20 ↵

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RELATIVE COORDINATE
the distance from the last coordinate entered
@ means with reference to the last point
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This system makes use of the distance and the direction angle
of the new point away from the previous point
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85<21
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85 units away from the previous point in the 21
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LINE Specify first point : 50, 50 ↵
Specify next point or [undo] : @50<20 ↵

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POLAR COORDINATE

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POLAR COORDINATE
the distance and the angle from the last coordinate (point)
entered
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This is ver y similar to the selection of the correct paper size for the
manual design drawings
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The current drawing area has a length of 1 2 units and a breadth of 9
units, by default for English system
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In order to set the new Limits, follow these guidelines
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Specify the minimum limiting coordinates for the and press
[Enter]
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To execute the Units command, one can either select Units
Control from the Settings pull-down menu or type UNITS at the
Command prompt
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PRACTICE

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EXERCISE 1
SAVE AS EXERCISE1F****
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Title: Basic To AutoCAD Chapter 1
Description: This is basic notes to AutoCAD. It is suitable for AutoCAD 2015.