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Civil Design: AutoCAD

Chapter 2

Creating your first Drawing


Outline
2.1 Setting drawing units

2.2 Working with the Coordinates

2.3 Working with the Coordinates

2.4 Working with the Coordinates

2.5 Basic draw Commands

2.6 Basic Modify Commands

2.7 Creating your first drawing


Setting drawing units
Units represent any type of real world measurements let it be decimal miles,
furlong, inches, millimeters, microns, or anything else.
To set the appropriate units follow the steps:
• Select any point.
• Enter the ‘un’ command.
• Press Enter.
• After the Drawing Units tab appears In the Length section, select the Precision
section to adjust the unit.
• In the “Units to scale inserted content,” select the appropriate unit for the
drawing.
• Select OK to finish.
Setting drawing units
Working with the Coordinates
AutoCAD uses a Cartesian coordinate system to identify the location of
points in two- and three-dimensional space.

To write coordinates in AutoCAD:


• Click Home tab > Draw panel > Line. Find.
• Type the coordinate value for the first point by typing the X value, a
comma, then the Y value, for example 1.65,4.25.
• Press the Spacebar or Enter.
• Do one of the following: ...
• Press the Spacebar or Enter.
Understanding grips
Grips are small squares, rectangles, and triangles that appear on
selected objects. You can stretch, move, copy, rotate, scale, and
mirror objects using grips without having to enter any commands.
Snaps and tracking
The Object Snap Tracking in AutoCAD shows the snapping reference
lines. It displays the snapping lines on the position of the cursor. Object
Snap Tracking is used when we want to align the lines or the parts of
any object. It is present on the Status bar at the bottom
Basic draw
Commands
Line and Polyline
A line is simply a separate line or segment that is not joined to another
line. While a Polyline indicates two or more lines have been joined. One
cool aspect of this process is that you can easily change from individual
segments to a Polyline via Join command and back.
Circle
The circle command is used to draw a circle by specifying the center point
and radius.
Rectangle
A rectangle is a closed 2-D shape, having 4 sides, 4 corners, and 4 right
angles (90°).
Arc: An arc is a portion of a circle. The default method for drawing an arc
is to specify three points the start point, a second point, and the endpoint.
Basic Modify Commands
Essential Commands of Modify Panel in AutoCAD

• Move (M+Enter)
• Rotate (RO+Enter)
• Copy (CO+Enter)
• Mirror (M+Enter)
• Stretch.
• Scale (SC+Enter)
• Trim (TR+Enter)
• Extend (EX+Enter)
Creating your first drawing

Exercise 1 Exercise 2
Thank you for your
attention

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