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Course: Computer Aided Drafting I

Navigating the Interface

- Launching AutoCAD
- GUI, Graphical User Interface - Screens (model space & paper Space)
- Pull down menus – tool bars – were to find other tool bars
- Options menu
  - Profile (control/customizing AutoCAD environment)
  - Display
  - System (make sure that “show start-up dialog box” is selected
  - Drafting setting
  - right click customization
  - re-setting user profile to default “CCD” user
- Command line – DUCS – DYN
- There are multiple ways of inputting data – (all are acceptable)
  - Key board short cuts, “hot keys”
  - Pull down menus
  - Icons (B)

Starting a AutoCAD drawing

- What type of “units” (English – Metric?) will determine starting point
  - English will be ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
  - Metric will be ISO (International Standards Organization)
  - Select appropriate paper size to match desired readability
  - Discuss measurement tools, scales, micrometers
  - Discuss math to convert metric to imperial
- Under Format pull down menu check the following:
  - Units (appropriate units, English or Metric), also precision
  - Drawing limits (setting “limits” in infinite model space)
  - Line weight/display line weight
- “Radio buttons” that are at the bottom of the GUI control the following:
  - Snap - turns on/off cursers’ ability to snap to grid
  - Grid -turns on/off grid
  - Ortho - set computer to force all drawn lines horizontal or vertical
  - Polar - allows curser to tell drafter length and angle of lines
  - OSnap - Sets AutoCAD to lock onto existing geometry
  - OTrack – Sets AutoCAD’s ability to follow existing geometr
  - DUCS – Dynamic User Control System
  - DYN – Dynamic Command line (on screen)
  - LWT- Line weight control
  - Paper/Model- Controls which environment the drawing is in
- Function Key - second meanings in AutoCAD
  - F1 – Help
  - F2 – Opens command line history
  - F3 – Osnap
  - F4 – Tablet control (historic)
  - F5 – Iso Plane control (isometric drafting)
  - F6 – Coordinate System On/Off
  - F7 – Grid On/Off
  - F8 – Ortho On/Off
  - F9 – Snap On/Off
  - F10 – Polar On/Off
  - F11 – Otrack On/Off
  - F12 – Dynamic Command line On/Off
- Layers & What is the Alphabet of Lines?
  - Dialog control box
  - Light Bulb On/Off
  - Freeze/Thaw (sun or snowflake)
  - Lock/Unlock
  - Color
  - Line Type (also how to load line types)
  - Line Weight (see Alphabet of Lines)
- Model/Layout # Tabs:
  - What each mean
  - Checking Drawing Layout Size
  - Adding new sheets/different configured sheets
- Radio Buttons:
  - Using right click to open short cut menu
  - Select “Setting” with left click
  - Use the control dialog box to optimize Snap, Grid, Ortho, Iso
- Extra Tool Bars:
  - Using right click to open find extra tool bars
  - Using “Customized Tool Palettes” from Tools Pull Down
  - Floating tool bars – Locked down tool bars
  - Floating Dialog boxes