1. PLEASE USE THE ENTER KEY OR RIGHT CLICK ON THE MOUSE TO ADVANCE

2. Please read LESSON #9 – DRAWING DISPLAY OPTIONS Prior to viewing this presentation.

3. What are Drawing Display Options?

4. IN THIS PRESENTATION YOU WILL BE INTRODUCED TO COMMANDS THAT WILL PROVIDE THE METHODS NECESSARY TO DISPLAY YOUR WORK ON THE SCREEN IN SEVERAL VIEWING POSITIONS.. They include: MODEL SPACE PAPER SPACE ZOOM VIEW BLIPS REDRAW REGEN DRAW ORDER DRAWING DISPLAY OPTIONS Getting Close To Your Work

5. The slide shows a typical MODEL SPACE view. Notice the DARKEN tab or pick box indicating you are in Model space. Model space can be thought of as the space where you draw and design in Autocad. The area in commonly black and shows the standard USC Icon. The 2D UCS Icon is being displayed.

6. Slide shows a 3” square being drawn. Notice at the Cursor intersection the AUTO TRACK display is showing the length of the line and the direction of line travel as well as indicating that ORTHO is active. See also the COORDS display. AUTO TRACK

7. A review of line direction

12. Selecting this pick box will change the display view to PAPER SPACE Paper Space is used to creatively layout your drawing for plotting.

13. Students will create several paper space layouts throughout the term.

14. Notice the PAPER SPACE Icon

15. By selecting the Model or Paper space PICK BOX you can toggle between PS (paper space) and MS (model space) when you are in a Layout Tab. Typing MS or PS at the keyboard will also toggle the view.

16. REMEMBER MAKING THIS SELECTION WILL PLACE YOU IN MODEL SPACE AND MAKING ANY CHANGES WILL EFFECT THE DRAWING. Select this PICK BOX to return to Paper Space

17. Select the MODEL pick box to display MODEL SPACE

18. Creating PAPER SPACE layouts WILL BE EXPLAINED IN A LATER PRESENTATION.

19. THE ZOOM COMMANDS You can view a specific portion of your drawing usingseveral methods of Autocad display commands.The ZOOM commands allow you to enlarge or reducethe amount of the drawing displayed.The ability to magnify an area on your drawing allowsyou to create extremely small detailed objects anddesigns.The Zoom command contains several options that areespecially helpful when getting close to your work.

20. THE ZOOM TOOLBAR and MENU BAR

21. The most frequently selected zoom commands are Zoom Window, Zoom Extents, Zoom All and Zoom Previous

22. This displayed view shows the drawing at ZOOM EXTENTS

23. Selecting the ZOOM WINDOW icon to magnify the area displaying the square.

25. Selecting the ZOOM WINDOW icon will prompt you for the starting corner of a window that will be used to define the area to enlarge.

29. Selecting the ZOOM EXTENTS icon will display the drawing to the original overall displayed view.

30. This displayed view shows the drawing at ZOOM EXTENTS

31. The Zoom Command choices are available under the VIEW pull-down menu bar.

32. Selecting Zoom Previous will display the view prior to enlarging or reducing a display area.

35. REALTIME ZOOM

36. REALTIME ZOOMING allows you to seeyour work move on the screen as you zoom.It is the quickest and easiest method foradjusting the magnification of drawings onthe screen.The icon for Realtime Zoom can be foundunder the pull-down View menu bar andappears as a magnifying glass.The quickest way to access the commandcan be made by right-clicking on the screenwhere the Cursor menu will appear and thenselect ZOOM

39. DRAG MOUSE WHILE HOLDING RIGHT BUTTON IN THIS DIRECTION TO ENLARGE IN THIS DIRECTION TO REDUCE

42. POSITIONING THE CURSOR IN ANY PART OF THE GRAPHIC AREA AND DEPRESSING THE ENTER KEY TWICE WILL ALSO DISPLAY THE REALTIME COMMAND ICON.

43. REALTIME PANNING

44. The PAN command allows the operator to move aroundthe drawing without changing the magnification of thepresent zoom factor.You are able to view detail that lie just outside the edgesof the displayed screen.The icon for PAN is a opened HAND design.The PAN command can be quickly selected via theCursor menu or by typing PAN on the keyboard andunder the View menu bar.

47. REALTIME PANNING The PAN command allows the operator to move aroundthe drawing without changing the magnification of thepresent zoom factor.After selecting the command by one of the methodsindicated the operator simply DRAGS the mouse whileholding the right button.

50. Slide shows drawing PANNED towards left.

51. SCROLL BARS CAN ALSO BE USED TO PAN

52. THE VIEW TOOLBAR

53. The VIEW TOOLBAR contains iconsrepresenting several orthographic andisometric display views.The Toolbar is especially useful whenworking with 3D SOLIDS to displaythe object to any of the presetorthographic and isometric views.

54. The VIEW pull-down 3D Views menucontains the same choices as in theView Toolbar.

55. Selecting an icon from the VIEW TOOLBARwill display your drawing instantly.

61. NOTEAt times the USC icon will not correctly display itself whenyou toggle from a Front View to an Isometric. Simply select the TOP view icon and re-select theISOMETRIC icon to quickly correct the problem.

64. As a short review lets use the Visual Styles Toolbar to displaythe Solid objects in several Visual Display Styles selecting theicons from top to bottom.

65. Display is presently in 2D WIREFRAME

66. Select the 3D HIDDEN VISUAL STYLE Icon

67. Display is in now shown in 3D HIDDEN VISUAL STYLE

68. Select REALISTIC VISUAL STYLE Icon

69. Display is now in REALISTIC VISUAL STYLE

70. Select CONCEPTUAL VISUAL STYLE Icon

71. Display is now in CONCEPTUAL VISUAL STYLE

72. Display is now in 2D WIREFRAME (normal display)

74. Lastly is the use of the HIDE command.Simply by typing HIDE or selecting fromthe View pull-down menu The HIDECOMMAND will hide lines representingedges in 3D objects and display them as aSolid.

75. Before the use of the Hide Command.

76. After using the Hide Command.

77. Please review this presentation and all others as frequently as possible for it contains vital information that will assist you in class.