Introduction To AutoCad
Introduction To AutoCad
AutoCad
By: Nemi Designing Center
Introduction
● The Word AutoCAD is made up of two words “Auto (logo of company)”
and CAD “(computer aided design)”.
● AutoCAD is 2D and 3D modeling software.
● It is developed by Autodesk company.
● It is widely used in industry for 2D drawing and 3D modeling.
● In another way we can say that AutoCAD is a designing course , which is
performed by the help of computer.
● You can learn Autocad by taking Best Autocad course in Ahmedabad
Version of AutoCad
● AutoCAD software was firstly launched by Autodesk company in Dec. 1982.
● It comes in India in 1988.
● The first version of AutoCAD was R1 after that R2,R3,R4…… and so on
● In 2000, Autodesk launched a version of AutoCAD 2000 after that
2001,2002…… so on.
● This time, we have the latest version of AutoCAD is 2014,which is launched on
27th march 2013.
● Latest version is easy to use and overcome the difficulties of old version.
How AutoCad Works
● There is a co-ordinate system used in AutoCAD.
● Every drawing shows its co-ordinate.
● In above next slide the line shows its co-ordinate that is ( 9,6 ) and (-10,-4).
● There is so many commands like copy, move ,rotate ,mirror in 2D, path array,
rectangular array, polar array & more.
● Different types of drawing can be made in the same time by using a command
that is LAYER.
● Using line , arc , circle , rectangle , ellipse & polygon , so many drawing
of different type can be made.
CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM
● We can use the following dimensional commands like The Linear Dimension,
The Continue Dimension Command, The Baseline Dimension Command, The
Aligned Dimension Command, Changing the Text, The Radial Dimension
Commands, Angular Dimensions, Annotation with Leaders, Editing
Dimensions, The Dimension Edit Command etc.
Conclusion