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Autocad Lecture 5

The document discusses creating orthographic views in AutoCAD. It covers setting up layers for construction lines, hidden lines, and center lines. It then explains how to use construction lines and rays to transfer geometry between different orthographic views. The offset tool is introduced to specify distances. The overall procedure outlined is to first set up the appropriate layers, then draw construction lines to lay out the object, use offset to define distances, and add hidden lines and center lines.

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Autocad Lecture 5

The document discusses creating orthographic views in AutoCAD. It covers setting up layers for construction lines, hidden lines, and center lines. It then explains how to use construction lines and rays to transfer geometry between different orthographic views. The offset tool is introduced to specify distances. The overall procedure outlined is to first set up the appropriate layers, then draw construction lines to lay out the object, use offset to define distances, and add hidden lines and center lines.

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AUTOCAD LECTURE 5

ORTHOGRAPHIC VIEWS IN AUTOCAD


University of Illinois at Chicago
ME250, Spring 2014
By Sin-Pui Fu
2 April 2014
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OBJECTIVE
Layer properties
Offset
Hidden line
Centerline
Orthographic views
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REVIEW OF ORTHOGRAPHIC VIEWS
Orthographic views are 2-D views of 3-D objects.
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Engineering Graphics with Autocad
2002, James D. Bethune Fig 5-1
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Third Angle Orthographic View
LAYER
Use layers to control the visibility of objects and to
assign properties such as color and linetype.

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LAYER AND CNC MACHINE SETTING
Layer setup is very important to convert the cad drawing to CAM
software for CNC machine. For example: you may need to set up the
cut depth by layer, etc..
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LAYER PROPERTIES
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Click the icon to manage the layers
LAYER PROPERTIES MANAGER
After you click the icon, you can start to edit your
layer in Layer Properties Manager window
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Layer On/ Off
Add New Layers
Select Color
Select Linetype
Select Lineweight
Non-print/ Print layer
LINEWEIGHT

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CONSTRUCTION LINE
Command xl
Lines that extend to infinity in one or both
directions, known as rays and construction lines,
respectively, can be used as references for creating
other objects.

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Construction Line
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Original Object
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Create Front View. Use rays to transfer Front View geometry to Top View.
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Create a 45 ray from top right corner of Front View
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Use Rays to transfer Top & Front View geometries to Side View.
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Delete Rays or turn off layer.
CONSTRUCTION LINE LAYER

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Select cyan color
Use Continuous Line
CENTER LINE
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Centerlines represent holes in orthographic views

Center Line
Center Line
Center Line
Engineering Graphics with Autocad
2002, James D. Bethune Fig 5-45
CREATE CENTER LINE LAYER

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Select red color
Load linetype and
choose Center
HIDDEN LINE
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Hidden lines are used to represent surfaces that
are not directly visible in an orthographic view.
Engineering Graphics with Autocad
2002, James D. Bethune Fig 5-9
CREATE HIDDEN LINE LAYER

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Rename the layer, Select the color and linetype
SELECTING LINETYPE

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Select blue color
Load linetype and
choose HIDDEN
COMMAND : OFFSET
Offset an object at a specified distance or through a
point
Step1: Type command offset
Step2: specify the distance
Step3: select a object
Step4: specify the displacement
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PROCEDURE
Step1: create construction line, hidden line and
center line layers
Step2: select construction line layer and draw
two construction lines
Step3: use offset function to specify the distances
Step4: use line function to draw the object
Step5: draw hidden line
Step6: draw center line
Step7: Type LTS to change the line type scale to
show dash line
Step8: attach Titleblock
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