Alexandra Raicu

CONSTANTA MARITIME UNIVERSITY

TECHNICAL DRAWING AND
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
1. HATCH
2. TEXT STYLES
3. CREATING TABLES
4. ENTERING DIMENSIONS
1.1 HATCH
Hatch (Bhatch) Defines the appearance of the
hatch pattern to be applied. The areas you want to
hatch should be completely enclosed
Hatchedit Modifies the characteristics of an
existing hatch or fill

DRAW HATCH HATCH (H)
HATCH
The Hatch tab of the
Hatch And Gradient dialog box
HATCH Type and Pattern
You can use predefined, user-
defined, or custom hatch patterns.
Most of the time, youll choose
either redefined or user-defined
hatch patterns.
AutoCAD has about 80 predefined
hatch patterns from which to
choose. The list includes ANSI
(American National Standards
Institute) and ISO (International
Standards Organization) standard
hatch patterns.
Plenty of hatch patterns
HATCH Angle and scale
Angle Specifies an angle for the hatch pattern relative to
the X axis of the current UCS
Scale Expands or contracts a predefined or custom
pattern
Spacing Specifies the spacing of lines in a user-defined
pattern
Double For user-defined patterns, draws a second set of
lines positioned at 90 degrees to the original lines, creating
a crosshatch
ISO Pen Width Scales an ISO predefined pattern based
on the selected pen width
HATCH Hatch origin
Controls the starting location of hatch pattern
generation. Some hatches, such as brick patterns,
need to be aligned with a point on the hatch
boundary. By default, all hatch origins correspond
to the current UCS origin.
Use Current Origin Uses the current hatch
origin setting
Specified Origin Uses the hatch origin of the
source hatch
HATCH Boundaries
Pick Points Determines a boundary from existing objects
that form an enclosed area around the specified point. The
dialog box closes temporarily, and you are prompted to pick
a point.
Select Objects Determines a boundary from selected
objects that form an enclosed area.
Remove Boundary Removes from the boundary definition
any of the objects that were added previously
Recreate Boundary Creates a polyline or region around
the selected hatch or fill, and optionally associates the hatch
object with it.
View Selection Temporarily closes the dialog box and
displays the currently defined boundaries with the current
hatch or fill settings.
HATCH Options
Associative Specifies that the new hatch pattern is
updated when its boundaries are modified
Create Separate Hatches Controls whether the
command creates a single hatch object or multiple hatch
objects when several separate closed boundaries are
specified
Inherit Properties Assigns the hatch or fill properties
from another hatch object
Gap Tolerance Sets the maximum size of gaps that
can be ignored when objects are used as a hatch
boundary. The default value, 0, specifies that the objects
must enclose the area with no gaps
HATCH Islands
Normal Hatches or fills inward from
the outer boundary. If HATCH
encounters an internal island, it turns
off hatching or filling until it encounters
another island within the island.
Outer Hatches or fills inward from
the outer boundary. This option
hatches or fills only the outermost
level of the structure and leaves the
internal structure blank.
Ignore Ignores all internal objects
and hatches or fills through them
1.2 MAKING SOLID AND
GRADIENT FILLS
GRADIENT
Specifies a fill that
uses a smooth
transition between
one or two colors

DRAW GRADIENT GRADIENT
2.1 TEXT STYLES
In AutoCAD, adding text to a drawing is only slightly more
complicated than adding it to a word processing document. Here
are the steps:
Create a new AutoCAD text style, or select an existing style,
that includes the font and other text characteristics you want to
use.
Make an appropriate text layer current.
Run one of these commands to draw text:
MTEXT draws paragraph (also called multiline) text.
TEXT draws single-line text.
Specify the text alignment points, justification, and height.
Type the text.
2.1 TEXT STYLES
Style are similar to the
paragraphs styles in a word
processor.
An AutoCAD text style includes:
the font, a font height (you can
set or leave at 0 for later
flexibility), special effects (such
as italic, vertical and upside
down)

FORMAT TEXT STYLE STYLE
The Text Style dialog box
2.2 SINGLE LINE TEXT
AutoCAD offers two different kinds of text objects.
Text (DT) Designed for creating single lines.
Although you can press Enter to create more than
one line of text, each line becomes a separate text
object.

DRAW TEXT-SINGLE LINE
TEXT
TEXT
2.3 MULTI LINE TEXT
Mtext Designed for multiple lines, with word-wrapping.
AutoCAD keeps the multiple lines together as a single
object. Other special formatting, such as numbered and
bulleted lists, is possible.

DRAW TEXT- MULTI LINE TEXT MTEXT
2.4 EDITING TEXT CONTENTS AND
PROPERTIES
Select the object, right-click, and choose Mtext Edit or
Properties:
The Mtext Edit option opens the In-Place Text Editor
window so that you can change the text contents and
formatting.
The Properties option opens the Properties palette, where
you can change overall properties for the text object.
Ddedit (ED) You can use the Text Override field, to edit
dimension text in the In Place Text Editor window.
Find allows finding or replacing text
Spell (SP) allows checking spelling
3. CREATING TABLES
Table allows to insert a table in a drawing
Table style from the Format Menu (Tablestyle)
permits to create and modify table styles: text,
general (format, color, alignment, type), borders.

DRAW TABLE TABLE
3. CREATING TABLES
Table Style dialog box
4.1 ENTERING DIMENSIONS
Elementele unei cote sunt:
Dimension line (dl)
Arrowhead (a)
Extension line origin point (elop)
Extension lines (el)
Dimension text (dt)
Leader (l)
ENTERING DIMENSIONS

FORMAT DIMENSION STYLE DIMSTYLE
Dimstyle to create or to
modify your own dimension
styles;
Every drawing comes with a
default dimension style named
Standard (for imperial -feet and
inches- drawings) or ISO-25 (for
metric drawings)
ENTERING DIMENSIONS
Dimenion Style Manager dialog box
ENTERING DIMENSIONS
New/Modify Dimension Style
subdialog box
ENTERING DIMENSIONS
Lines, Symbols and Arrows tabs that control the
basic look and feel of all parts of your dimensions
except text. Use these tabs to change the type and
size of arrowheads or the display characteristics of
the dimension and extension lines
Text tab to control how your dimension text looks
the text style and height to use and where to place
the text with respect to the dimension and extension
lines.
ENTERING DIMENSIONS
Fit tab includes a bunch of confusing options that control
when and where AutoCAD shoves the dimension text if it
doesnt quite fit between the dimension lines. The default
settings leave AutoCAD in maximum attempt at being helpful
mode that is, AutoCAD moves the text, dimension lines, and
arrows around automatically so that things dont overlap

Primary Units set the Unit format and Precision and maybe
specify a suffix for unitless numbers
Alternate Units allows to use a second system of
measurement units
Tolerances controls the display of dimensional tolerances
Linear Dimension - measures the linear extent of an object or the
linear distance between objects; are either horizontal or vertical
Aligned Dimension - is similar to a linear dimension, but the
dimension line tilts to the same angle as a line drawn through the
origin points of its extension lines
Radius Dimension calls out the radius of a circle or arc
Diameter Dimension - calls out the diameter of a circle or arc
Angular Dimension - calls out the angular measurement between
two lines, the two endpoints of an arc, or two points on a circle.
4.2 DRAWING DIMENSIONS
Arc Length measure the length along the circumference
of the arc, not the radius
Ordinate Dimension measure the perpendicular
distance from an origin point called the datum to a feature,
such as a hole in a part. Ordinate dimensions consist of an
X or Y value with a leader line
Baseline Dimension multiple dimensions measured from
the same baseline. Continued dimensions are multiple
dimensions placed end to end
Continue Dimension - are multiple dimensions placed end
to end. You must create a linear, aligned, or angular
dimension before you create baseline or continued
dimensions
4.2 DRAWING DIMENSIONS
Leader - Sets the leader annotation type, specifies multiline
text options, and indicates whether you want to reuse the
annotation.
Tolerance - Geometric tolerances show acceptable
deviations of form, profile, orientation, location, and runout
of a feature. You add geometric tolerances in feature
control frames. These frames contain all the tolerance
information for a single dimension.
Center Mark - Creates the center mark or the centerlines of
circles and arcs. Using Dimcenter you can choose
between center marks and centerlines and specify their
size when you set up the dimension style.
4.2 DRAWING DIMENSIONS