SEA College of Engineering & Technology

[Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi]

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Seminar on AutoCAD

TITLE : PROJECT
PRESENTATION
TOPIC : AutoCAD
GUIDE : Prof. Kuberagouda S B
Presented By : Chandan S
Table of Content
Introduction to AutoCAD.
User Interface Tour
Guide to AutoCAD Basics
Basics
Viewing
Geometry
Precision
Layers
Properties
Modifying
Blocks
Layouts
Notes and Labels
Dimensions
Printing
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AutoCAD

What is AutoCAD?
AutoCAD Is A Commercial Computer-aided Design (CAD) And Drafting Software Application.
Developed And Marketed By Autodesk, AutoCAD Was First Released In December 1982.

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AutoCAD USER INTERFACE (UI)SCREEN

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AutoCAD Basics
Basics: Properties: Notes and Labels:
This section reviews the basic You can assign properties such as Create notes, labels, bubbles, and
AutoCAD color callouts.
controls. and linetype to individual Save and restore style settings by
Viewing: objects, or as name.
Dimensions:
Pan and zoom in a drawing, and default properties assigned to
Modifying: Create several types of
control layers. editing operations such
Perform dimensions and
the order of overlapping as save dimension settings by name.
objects.
Geometry: erase, move, and trim on the Printing:
Create basic geometric objects objects in a Output a drawing layout to a
such as drawing. printer, a
Blocks:
lines, circles, and hatched Insert symbols and details into plotter, or a file. Save and restore
areas.
Layers: your the
Organize your drawing by drawings from commercial online printer settings for each layout.
assigning sources
objects to layers. or from your own designs.
Layouts:
Display one or more scaled views
of your
design on a standard-size
drawing sheet
called a layout.

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The Command Window
At the heart of AutoCAD is the Command window, which is normally docked at the bottom of the application
window. The Command window displays prompts, options, and messages.

You can enter commands directly in the Command window instead of using the ribbon, toolbars, and menus. Many long-time
AutoCAD users prefer this method.

Notice that as you start to type a command, an autocomplete menu appears. When several options are available, such as in
the example below, make your choice by clicking the correct option or using the arrow keys and then pressing Enter or the
Spacebar to confirm your selection.

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New Drawings
You can easily confirm to industry or company standards by
specifying settings for text, dimensions, linetypes, and several
other features.
For example, this object displays two different dimension
styles.

All these settings can be saved in a drawing template file.

Click New to choose from several drawing template files:

The “Tutorial” template files in the list are examples of the

architectural or mechanical design templates using both
For imperial drawings that assume your units are inches, imperial (i) and metric (m) measurements. You might want to
experiment with them.
use acad.dwt For metric units that assume your units are
Most companies use drawing template files that confirm to
millimeters, Use acadiso.dwt
company standards, and they will often use different drawing
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AutoCAD Basics
Units
When you first start a drawing, you need to decide what the length of one unit represents—an inch, a
foot, a centimeter, a kilometer, or some other unit of length. For example, the objects below could
represent two buildings that are each 125 feet long, or they could represent a section from a
mechanical part that is measured in millimeters.

Metric (M) Imperial (I)

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Geometry Polylines and Rectangles
Create basic geometric objects such as lines, circles, and A polyline is a connected sequence of line or
hatched areas. arc segments that
You can create many different types of geometric objects in is created as a single object.
AutoCAD, but you only need to know a few of them for most 2D
drawings.

Lines
The line is the most basic and common object in AutoCAD
drawings. Use the PLINE command to create open or closed

To draw a line, click the Line tool. polylines for:

Alternatively, you can type LINE or just L in the Command Geometry that requires fixed-width segments
window, and then press Enter or the Spacebar. Continuous paths for which you need to know the
total length
Contour lines for topographic maps and isobaric
data
Wiring diagrams and traces on printed circuit
boards
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Circles Hatches and Fills
The default option of the CIRCLE command requires you In AutoCAD, a hatch is a single, compound object
to specify a center point and a radius. that covers a specified area with a pattern of
The other circle options are available from the drop- lines, dots, shapes, a solid fill color, or a gradient
down: fill.

When you start the HATCH or H command, the ribbon

temporarily displays the Hatch Creation tab. On this tab, you
can choose from over 70 industry-standard imperial and ISO
hatch patterns along with many specialized options.
The simplest procedure is to choose a hatch pattern and scale
from the ribbon, and click within any area that is completely

Alternatively, you can also enter CIRCLE or just C in enclosed by objects. You must specify the scale factor for the
the Command window and click to choose an option.
If you do, you can specify a center point, or you can hatch in order to control its size and spacing.
click one of the highlighted command options as After you create a hatch, you can move the bounding objects to
shown below.
adjust the hatch area, or you can delete one or more of the
bounding objects to create partially bounded hatches:
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Set Default Object Snaps Handy Function Key Reference
Enter the OSNAP command to set the default All keyboard function keys have assignments in
object snaps, AutoCAD. The ones that are most commonly turned on
which are also called “running” object snaps. and off are indicated with a key.
For example,
you might find it useful to turn on the Midpoint
object snap by default. Key Feature Description

F1 Displays Help for the active tooltip, command

Help palette, or dialog box.
Displays expanded command history in the
F2
Expanded History Command Window.
F3 Object Snap Turns object snap on and off.
F4 3D Object Snap Turns on additional object snaps for 3D elements.
F5 lsoplane Cycles through 2-1/2D isoplane settings.
F6 Dynamic UCS Turns on UCS alignment with planar surfaces.
F7 Grid Display Turns the grid display on and off.
F8 Ortho Locks cursor movement to horizontal or vertical.
Restricts cursor movement to specified grid
F9
Grid Snap intervals.
F10 Polar Tracking Guides cursor movement to specified angles.

F11 Object Snap Tracks the cursor horizontally or vertically from

Tracking object snap locations.
Displays distances and angles near the cursor
F12 and accepts input as you use Tab between the
Dynamic Input fields.

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Layers
Organize your drawing by assigning objects to layers. In the drawing below, the doors and
When a drawing becomes visually complex, you can hide electrical wiring were temporarily hidden
objects that you currently do not need to see. by hiding their layers.

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The Properties Palette
The Properties palette is an essential tool. You can open it
with the PROPERTIES command (enter PR in the Command
window), you can press Ctrl + 1, or you can click the tiny
arrow in the Properties panel on the Home tab—whichever
you prefer.

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Modifying Select Multiple Objects
Perform editing operations such as erase, move, and Sometimes you may need to select a large number of
trim on the objects in a drawing. objects. Instead of selecting each object individually,
The most common modifying tools are located on the you can select the objects in an area by clicking an
Modify panel of the Home tab. Take a minute to look empty location (1), moving your cursor right or left,
through them. and then clicking a second time (2).

Erase • With a crossing selection, any objects within or touching the

To erase an object, use the ERASE or E command. green area are selected.
You can enter E in the Command window, or click the • With a window selection, only the objects completely
Erase tool. When you see the cursor change to a contained within the blue area are selected.
square pickbox, click each object that you want to The result is called the selection set, which is the set of objects
erase, and then press Enter or the Spacebar. that will be processed by a command.

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Layouts
Display one or more scaled views of your design on a standard- After paper space was introduced, you could
size drawing sheet called a layout. click a layout tab to access a space designed
specifically for layouts and scaling. In the
After you finish creating a model at full size, you can switch to a
following illustration, paper space is active.
paper space layout to create scaled views of the model, and to
There are currently only two objects in paper
add notes, labels, and dimensions. You can also specify
space: a drawing border block, and a single
different linetypes and line widths for display in paper space.
layout viewport, which displays a view of
model space.
Model Space and Paper Space
As you know, you create the geometry of your model in model
space.

Working with layout viewports is described in more detail

later in this topic.

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Dimension Styles
To open the Dimension Style Manager, click the
Dimension styles help establish and enforce drafting standards. indicated button. You can create dimension
There are many dimension variables that can be set with the styles that match nearly any standard, but you
DIMSTYLE command to control virtually every nuance of the will need to invest time into specifying them
appearance and behavior of dimensions. All these settings are completely. For this reason, you should save
stored in each dimension style. any dimension styles that you create in one or
more drawing template files.
The default dimension style is named either Standard (imperial)
or ISO-25 (metric). It is assigned to all dimensions until another
style is set as the current dimension style.
The current dimension style name, Hitchhiker in this case, is
displayed in the drop-down list of the Annotation panel.

Recommendations
When you save a dimension style, choose a descriptive
name. If applicable, check with your CAD manager
regarding existing dimension style standards and drawing
template files.
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Printing As you can see, there are many settings and
Output a drawing layout to a printer, a plotter, or a file. Save options available.
and restore the printer settings for each layout. Originally,
people printed text from printers and plotted drawings from
plotters. Now, you can perform both with either device, so
this guide will use the terms ‘print’ and ‘plot’ interchangeably.
The command to output a drawing is PLOT and you can
access it from the Quick Access toolbar.

To display all of the options in the Plot dialog box, click the
More Options button.

For the sake of convenience, you can save and restore

collections of these settings by name. These are called
page setups. With page setups you can store the
settings that you need for different printers, printing in
grayscale, creating a PD file from your drawing, and so
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