Using AutoCAD

Designs can be made quickly.

Designers only need to make a simple sketch of the

design.

Drawings produced are consistent and mistakes can be

minimized.

All angles of a drawing can be shown.

Changes to drawing can be made easily.

Exact copies of drawings can be produced quickly.

Objects can be viewed in 3D.

Objects can be viewed as animation.

Improves the productivity, efficiency and

accuracy of drawings

Enables drawings to be created, checked, and

edited quickly

Improves the quality of products

Retains uniformity in reproduction

Minimises storage space

MONITOR

CPU

PLOTTER

/ PRINTER

MOUSE

KEYBOARD

You can change AutoCAD’s appearance through

Workspaces

As you will learn in this session, you can easily arrange the AutoCAD

window in any way you like. Once you’ve arranged the window, you can

save your arrangement as a named workspace.

You can also change workspaces on the fly using the Workspace

Switching option in the status bar.

The 2D Drafting

& Annotation

Workspace.

You’ll focus on

the 2D Drafting

and Annotation

workspace for

most of this

class.

The AutoCAD

3D Modeling

workspace.

Ribbon panels at the top of the AutoCAD Window give you

access to nearly all of the features in AutoCAD.

Important features at the bottom of the AutoCAD Window offer

information and control over other features

As is typical in

other Windows

graphic programs,

If you click in the

drawing area, a

selection window

appears.

Try drawing a

rectangle

using the

Home tab’s

Draw panel

to the right.

Pay attention

to the

command

window at

the bottom

of the

window as

you draw.

Open the Clip drawing. You’ll see a different view from the default view

of a new drawing. This is the Layout view which is used to set up views

for printing or plotting.

Select the Model tool in the status bar and you will see a 3D view of the clip.

This is the Model view and it is where you do your drawing and editing.

You can switch to a top or plan view, then

zoom in on a portion of the drawing using the

Zoom Window option in the Navigation bar’s

Zoom flyout.

Select a part of the drawing and press the delete key, or click the erase tool

in the Modify Ribbon panel.