1-- Setup AutoCAD today a-Create documents – Wizard Quick Set Up – Area – units Advanced Set Up – Area – Units – Angles

1 -- Setup cont. Start From Scratch – You have to setup drawing limits Unit measurement – units, dimensions, text, scale Templates – Pre-configured the way things are often done

2 – AutoCAD Window a-Screen sections pulldown menu bar – Every configuration and tool is found here. Command line – Every command has a shortcut text command if you know it Status bar – Tells the status of the Drawing Area – Snap,grid,model/paper, Line weights, location of cursor

Drawing Area ICON Toolbars Standard – Saving, copying, all windows options Properties – Tells about the object(s) selected Draw – Shows all the options of objects to draw Modify – Shows most the options of how to modify an existing object

B-Cursor and the Mouse Crosshair or cursor – selection, insertion Mouse – Commands: left-select – Dialog Boxes: right-select

Inteliwheel – zoom in or out – pan around – it sticks sometimes

C-Origin of the User Coordinate System blank if off the screen crosshairs if in the screen black & white if in 2D or color if in 3D

3 – Setting Up or modifying the Drawing Parameters a-Setting up Drawing limits – with wizards – from scratch – from template

b-Setting Up the Coordinate system – Cartesian coordinate system – X,Y ordered pair and grid location – snapping configuration – grid configuration – Origin marker – User Coordinate System

c-Polar coordinate system and degree designation – angles – degrees – clock and counter clock rotation

3 -- Drawing Rectangles Circles

line segments polylines construction lines

4 -- Modifying Selecting – point to select – right drag to select – left drag to select

4 – modifying cont. Selecting – point to select – right drag to select – left drag to select

4 – modifying cont. Selecting – point to select – right drag to select – left drag to select

4 – modifying cont. Handles Reshaping w/ handles Undo / Redo

4 – modifying cont. deleting moving offsetting

4 – modifying cont. copying mirroring trimming rotating