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College of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Sciences by Ashok Acharya Lecturer

This document provides an overview of AutoCAD and its commands for biomedical engineering applications. It discusses (1) what AutoCAD is and its main commands, (2) object snaps and modify commands like erase, copy, and mirror, and (3) examples of exercises using commands like offset, array, and zoom. The document serves as a tutorial for biomedical engineers to learn the basics of AutoCAD and how to draft designs.

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College of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Sciences by Ashok Acharya Lecturer

This document provides an overview of AutoCAD and its commands for biomedical engineering applications. It discusses (1) what AutoCAD is and its main commands, (2) object snaps and modify commands like erase, copy, and mirror, and (3) examples of exercises using commands like offset, array, and zoom. The document serves as a tutorial for biomedical engineers to learn the basics of AutoCAD and how to draft designs.

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College of Biomedical Engineering and Applied

Sciences
By
Ashok Acharya
Lecturer
(ME, BE(Industrial and Mechanical Engineering)

What is AutoCAD?
AutoCAD is a CAD (Computer Aided
Design or Computer Aided Drafting)
software application for 2D and 3D
design and drafting.

Commands
Tool Bar
Pull Down
KEY COMMANDS (F2)
From the Key board, Example:- to draw a
circle the commands will be _circle in
command line.

Application Of Auto-CAD in Biomedical


Engineering

Drafting Settings
Command DS
Changes Grid
Object Snaps
Dynamic input
Ortho Mode

Object Snaps

Midpoint
End point
Intersection
Extension
Center
Quadrant
Tangent
Perpendicular
Parallel
Insert
Node

Modify Commands

The modify tools (from left to right):


Erase, Copy, Mirror, Offset, Array,
Move, Rotate, Scale, Stretch,
Lengthen, Trim, Extend, Break at
point, Break, Chamfer, Fillet,
Explode

Erase
Select this button then a drawing
element to erase it permanently from
the drawing.

Copy
Copy - The copy command will copy
any selected drawing elements and
reposition where specified by the
user, without affecting the original
elements.

Mirror

Mirror - The mirror command will


create a mirror image of any selected
drawing elements along any line of
symmetry specified by the user.

Mirror

Offset
Offset will make a copy of a line or
series of selected lines by a specified
distance in the direction specified.

Array
The array command quickly creates
copies of a selected object(s) to a
specified spacing..

Rectangular Array

Rectangular Array

Polar Array

Polar Array

Move
The move command works exactly
the same as the copy command
described above, except instead of
creating a copy of the selected
objects, the second objects are
moved.

Rotate
The rotate command rotates any
selected objects about a defined
point by the angle specified. By
default Autocad will rotate objects
anticlockwise when an angle is
entered.

Scale
The scale command scales the size
of a selected object(s) by a defined
scale factor from a selected base
point. The selected objects can be
scaled up to increase size or down to
reduce the size.

Lengthen

The lengthen
command will
lengthen a selected
line.

Lengthen
DE - Delta: Autocad asks for a distance to
lengthen the line by, when the line is
selected it will then be lengthened by the
specified distance ONLY to the side of the
line where the line was selected. i.e If
when you selected the line, you selected it
just to the left of centre, then the left side
of the line would be lengthened.

Lengthen
P - Percent: Autocad asks for a percent to
lengthen by, then asks you to select the
line. Specifying 50% would reduce the size
of the line by half (The same effect as
scaling by a factor of 0.5). Specifying 100%
would result in no change in length. 200%
would double the length of the line. When
specifying the percentage to Autocad only
the numerical figure has to be entered and
not the percent (%) symbol.

Lengthen
T - Total: Autocad asks for the
distance you want the entire line to
be, when you select the line it will
adjust the lines length to the
distance specified.

Lengthen
DY - Dynamic: Autocad adjusts the
length of the line as the mouse is
moved in the direction the line is to
be lengthened. This is not an
accurate technique, although is
useful for quickly lengthening
construction lines for example.

Trim
The trim command is an extremely
useful tool which will erase all parts
of an object beyond or within its
intersection with another object.

Trim

Extend
The extend command is
similar to the trim
command in how it
functions, except it
extends a selected line
to a point of intersection
of another selected
object.

Break at Point
The break at point command enables
the user to break an object at a
specific point, creating two separate
objects.

Break
The break command is identical to
the break at point command, except
the break line isn't as neat as break
at point.

Break

Chamfer
The chamfer command will chamfer
the intersection of two lines to a
specified distance.

Chamfer

Fillet
The fillet command is very similar to
the chamfer command above, except
instead of creating a straight line
chamfer, Autocad creates a radius
between the two points.

Fillet

Explode
The explode command is very
straight forward. It simply breaks
down an object down to its basic line
entities.

ZOOM
AutoCAD's zoom command toolbar:

Zoom real time and Pan

Pan Button

Zoom real time and Pan


While holding the left mouse button,
pull the mouse to the left, right, up or
down. Notice how the pan tool
reflects these mouse movements on
screen so we can move around the
screen effortlessly.

Exercises
1. Draw a circle of diameter 4cm
a. Offset it inside and outside, also produce mirror
image of it.
2. Draw a rectangle of size 60cm*50cm and rotate
through 0,90, 270 and 360.
3. Draw a rectangle of size 50cm*40cm.
a. Perform Explode, Break ,copy, move and re-size with
scale.
4. Draw a polygon
a. Number of sides=5, inscribed as well as
circumscribed with a circle of radius 10cm.
5. Draw a solid cylinder of radius 10cm and thickness
5cm with height 100cm.

THANK YOU

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