Lecture 2: Drawings and Templates and Intro to

Drawing and Editing

Professor: Dr. Miguel Alonso Jr.

Outline for Drawings and Templates

Starting a Drawing Saving, Opening, Multiple Drawings, Closing Creating and Using Templates Establishing a Grid on the Screen Setting Increments for Cursor Movement Drawing Settings

Starting a Drawing Templates define parameters related to the drawing in advance Allows for a uniform starting point for all employees, for

example Templates provide preset:

Standard layouts with a border and title block Grid and snap settings Units and angle values Text standards and general notes Dimensioning styles Layer definitions Plot styles

Standard templates

Crtl – N or file new Sheet size - > page setup American Society of Mechanical Engineers

and American National Standards Institute specify sheet size standards

Pg 49 Example -> Start a new drawing with Size A

Quick Start

Start from scratch quickly with a preset template Tools -> Options File - > Template Settings Default Template file name for QNEW Type QNEW Open with no template File -> New -> Open with no template QSAVE or SAVEAS

Saving, Opening, Multiple Drawings, Closing

Autosaving Options - > Open and Save -> Automatic Save Open existing drawings: OPEN, File-> Open Open a sample drawing Multiple Drawings -> Open three sample

drawings Window Pulldown menu CLOSE, File->Close

Custom Templates

Sheet size -> Go to Page Setup Student CD contains several templates that can

be used. You can create your own template if no

predefined template suits your needs. Use saveas command to save as a template

*.dwt The name should relate some information about

the template

GRID, SNAP, DRAWING UNITS

GRID toggle button GRID Settings

Right click on tab, settings SNAP Settings

Right click on tab, settings Drawing units

Format->Units UN or UNITS

Drawing Problems

Complete Drawing Problems 6 and 7

Intro to Drawing and Editing

LINE and ERASE Command Responding to AutoCAD Prompts with

Numbers 4.250, -6.375, 1/2, 1-3/4,2.5e+4, 2.5e-4

Point Entry Methods Crosshairs Absolute Coordinates (use # if DYN is enabled) Relative Coordinates (use @ if DYN is disabled)

Examples Absolute - (4,2), (7,2), (7,6), (4,6) Relative – Example pg 86 Polar Input: @4<45, example on pg 88

Coordinate Display Drawing in Ortho and Direct Distance Entry

Introduction to Editing

Basic editing operations ERASE, OOPS, U, UNDO, REDO

Window selection vs crosshair selection Object selection preview settings

Options Dialog box -> Selection Tab WP,CP,F Help -> ERASE

Exercises

Drawing Problems 1 to 9