Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AutoCAD Basics—your guide to the basic commands that you need to create 2D drawings using AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT.
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This guide is a great place to get started if you just completed your initial training, or to refresh your memory if you use AutoCAD only occasionally. The included commands are grouped together according to types of activity, and are arranged to follow a general workflow.
After you finish this guide, you can access the linked Help commands in each topic for more information, or you can return to the guide later to review specific topics. Also, try to find someone who will be able to answer your occasional questions. The product discussion groups (http://forums.autodesk.com/) and Autodesk blogs are good resources.
- Basics
Review the basic AutoCAD controls. - Viewing
Pan and zoom in a drawing, and control the order of overlapping objects. - Geometry
Create basic geometric objects such as lines, circles, and hatched areas. - Precision
Ensure the precision required for your models. - Layers
Organize your drawing by assigning objects to layers. - Properties
You can assign properties such as color and linetype to individual objects, or as default properties assigned to layers. - Modifying
Perform editing operations such as erase, move, and trim on the objects in a drawing. - Blocks
Insert symbols and details into your drawings from commercial online sources or from your own designs. - Layouts
Display one or more scaled views of your design on a standard-size drawing sheet called a layout. - Notes and Labels
Create notes, labels, bubbles, and callouts. Save and restore style settings by name. - Dimensions
Create several types of dimensions and save dimension settings by name. - Printing
Output a drawing layout to a printer, a plotter, or a file. Save and restore the printer settings for each layout.
Basic AutoCAD commands: Mastering the LINE command in AutoCAD: TRIM: Trim objects to meet the edges of other objects: Basic AutoCAD commands: Trim and Extend in AutoCAD: CIRCLE: Create a circle: Basic AutoCAD commands: Circles in AutoCAD: EXTEND: Extend objects to meet the edges of other objects: Basic AutoCAD commands: Trim and Extend in AutoCAD: ARRAYRECT. In other words, most of the commands you will use while using AutoCAD are taught in Level 1. The important thing to remember is that AutoCAD will expect you give it information in a very particular order. The most frustrating thing when you begin using this program is that you will try to do something, but AutoCAD will 'not work'. Basics of Structural Drawings & Structural Detailing and Design 4.4 (52 ratings) Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
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- Planning Your WorkA drawing plan involves thinking about the entire process or project in which you are involved and determining how to approach it. Your drawing plan focuses on the content you want to present, the objects and symbols you intend to create, and the appropriate use of standards. You may want processes to be automatic or to happen immediately, but if you hurry and do little or no planning, you may become frustrated and waste time while drawing. Take as much time as needed to develop drawing and project goals so that you can proceed with confidence. During your early stages of AutoCAD training, consider creating a planning sheet, especially for your first few assignments. A planning sheet should document the drawing session and all aspects of a drawing. A freehand sketch of the drawing is also a valuable element of the planning process.The drawing plan and sketch help you establish:1.Drawing layout: area, number of views, and required free space2.Drawing settings: units, drawing aids, layers, and styles3.How and when to perform specific tasks4.What objects and symbols to draw5.The best use of AutoCAD and equipment6.An even workloadDrawing StandardsMost of the industries, schools, and companies establish standards. Drawing standards apply to most settings and procedures, including:1. File storage, naming, and backup2.Drawing template, or template, files3.Units of measurement4.Layout characteristics5.Borders and title blocks6.Symbols7.Layers8.Text, dimension, multileader, and table styles9.Plot styles and plottingCompany or school drawing standards should follow appropriate national industry standards whenever possible. Although standards vary in content, the most important aspect is that standards exist and are understood and used by all CADD personnel. When you follow drawing standards, your drawings are consistent, you become more productive, and the classroom or office functions more efficiently. This material represents mechanical drafting standards developed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This textbook also references International Standards Organization (ISO) mechanical drafting standards and discipline-specific standards when appropriate, including the United States National CAD Standard® (NCS) and American Welding Society (AWS) standards.
Step 3: Function Keys/Accelerator Keys
FUNCTION KEYSIn AutoCAD each and every function keys as its own functions as per the list mentioned belowWe will discuss what are all these options in the upcoming topics in AutoCAD basic tutorialsAccelerator KeysThe list of accelerator keys are given below