AutoCAD for Fashion Design Students

1. Auto CADAuto CAD
Fashion DesignFashion Design
Prepared by
Virender Singh Bhati
Akash Shukla
Guidance by Mr. Dharmendra Rajput
HOD – Tool Room Department
NSIC Rajkot

2. Auto Cad
• CAD means Computer Aided Design or Drafting. Auto cad is
most widely used software developed by Auto desk.
• Auto cad is one of the most popular cad packages.
• Auto cad is a drafting package in almost all engineering
branches.
• It is a general purpose computer aided design Software.
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3. Life before Auto CAD
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4. Computer Aided Design’s
Impact on the Fashion Industry
• Overall CAD saves the designer time during
the design process.
• Many designers sketch by hand but large
numbers of designers are now utilizing cad.
• Today computer aided design is a part of the
qualifications for a fashion designer.
• Gives designer more flexibility in the area of
color and change on a product.
• Allows designers to develop even newer
design ideas. Shows the components in every
design.
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5. How to open Auto CAD
• First double click on auto cad icon
• Select no template metric
• Auto cad will ready for use• Auto cad will ready for use
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6. How to Limit Set
• Type Limit
• Select Lower Limit (0,0)
• Set Upper Limit (as Per Drawing)• Set Upper Limit (as Per Drawing)
• Then Z Entre
• A Entre
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7. How to Change Unit
• Type UN
• Select Unit as Per Requirement
• Set Other Parameter as Per Requirement• Set Other Parameter as Per Requirement
• Then OK
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8. How to open Auto Cad old File
• File
• Open
• Select documents• Select documents
 Open
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9. How to Save Auto CAD File
• Click on file
• Open save tab
• Select file• Select file
• Provide file name
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10. How to Change the color scheme
• Right Click
• Select Option
• Display
• Colour Scheme• Colour Scheme
• Chose Colour (Light or Dark)
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11. Status bar
• Drawing Coordinates (Show curser coordinates)
• Grid Display (start back side graph)
• Snap Mode (select only grid points)
• Ortho Mode (only horizontal or vertical draw)• Ortho Mode (only horizontal or vertical draw)
• Polar Tracking (draw line at a specific angles)
• Object Snap Tracking (for on tracking line)
• Object Snap (easy to select key points-end, Edge)
• Show / Hide Line weight
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12. Object Snap
• End Point
• Mid Point
• Nearest
• Centre• Centre
• Tangent
• Quadrant
• Intersection
• Perpendicular
• Parallel
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13. How to Change Curser Colour
• Right Click
• Options
• Display
• Colours• Colours
• 2D Model space
• Crosshairs
• Select Colour
• Apply & Close
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14. Selection type
There are two methods for select drawings
• Regular shape
• Irregular shape• Irregular shape
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15. Keyboard buttons Shortcut
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16. Toggle General Features
• Ctrl+D :- Toggle coordinate display
• Ctrl+G :- Toggle Grid
• Ctrl+E :- Cycle isometric planes
• Ctrl+F :- Toggle running object snaps• Ctrl+F :- Toggle running object snaps
• Ctrl+H :- Toggle Pick Style
• Ctrl+Shift+H :- Toggle Hide pallets
• Ctrl+I :- Toggle Coords
• Ctrl+Shift+I :- Toggle Infer Constraints
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17. Manage Screen
• Ctrl+0 :- Clean Screen
• Ctrl+1 :- Property Palette
• Ctrl+2 :- Design Center Palette
• Ctrl+3 :- Tool Palette
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• Ctrl+3 :- Tool Palette
• Ctrl+4 :- Sheet Set Palette
• Ctrl+6 :- DB Connect Manager
• Ctrl+7 :- Markup Set Manager Palette
• Ctrl+8 :- Quick Calc
• Ctrl+9 :- Command Line
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18. Manage Drawings
• Ctrl+N :- New Drawing
• Ctrl+S :- Save drawing
• Ctrl+O :- Open drawing
• Ctrl+P :- Plot dialog box
• Ctrl+Tab :- Switch to next• Ctrl+Tab :- Switch to next
• Ctrl+Shift+Tab :- Switch to previous drawing
• Ctrl+Page Up :- Switch to previous tab in current
drawing
• Ctrl+Page :- Down Switch to next tab in current drawing
• Ctrl+Q :- Exit
• Ctrl+A :- Select all objects
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19. Toggle Drawing Modes
• F1 :- Display Help
• F2 :- Text screen
• F3 :- Object snap mode (For Select Key Points)
• F4 :- 3DOsnap (For Select 3D Object Points)
• F5 :- Iso plane (For Select iso Planes)• F5 :- Iso plane (For Select iso Planes)
• F6 :- Dynamic UCS (It is 3D Objects)
• F7 :- Grid mode (It show background grid)
• F8 :- Ortho mode (Horizontal or Vertical line can )
• F9 :- Snap mode (on curse point on grid points)
• F10 :- Polar mode (For Draw line in angle)
• F11 :- Object snap tracking (For Tracking Object)
• F12 :- Dynamic input mode (Easy to input Dimension Value)
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20. Manage Workflow
• Ctrl+C :- Copy object
• Ctrl+X :- Cut object
• Ctrl+V :- Paste object
• Ctrl+Shift+C :- Copy to clipboard with base point• Ctrl+Shift+C :- Copy to clipboard with base point
• Ctrl+Shift+V :- Paste data as block
• Ctrl+Z :- Undo last action
• Ctrl+Y :- Redo last action
• Ctrl+[:- Cancel current command (or ctrl+)
• ESC :- Cancel current command
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22. Draw Commands: -
 Line
 Poly line
 Construction line
 Ray
 Polygon
 Rectangle Rectangle
 Arc
 Circle
 Ellipse
 Ellipse arc
 Hatch
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23. Auto Cad
• Commands: -
• Line: The LINE command is used to draw a line between two
specified points. First enter the LINE command or shortcut L in
the command area. Mouse Cross hair displays to specify the first
point of the line and next point of the line or enter the distance of
the line. Press ESC key at the end of the line.the line. Press ESC key at the end of the line.
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24. Auto Cad
• Practice Drawing
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25. Auto Cad
• Commands: -
• Polyline: POLYLINE command is used to draw a
series of lines continuously at a time. PL or PLINE
is the keyboard shortcut for polyline.
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26. Auto Cad
• Commands: -
•Rectangle: RECTANGLE command is used to
draw a rectangular geometry in the drawings. REC
is the keyboard shortcut for rectangle. First enter
the REC command in the command area. A cross
hair will be displays to specify the first corner
point of the rectangle and input the dimensions of
the rectangle as other corner point.
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27. Auto Cad
• Practice Drawing
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28. Auto Cad
• Circle: Circles are created with the CIRCLE
command. There are several different ways you can
define a circle. Those are defining center point and
radius or diameter of the circle. In the 2Point
method Define the circle with points on either endmethod Define the circle with points on either end
of the circle diameter. In the 3Point method Define
the circle with 3 non- collinear points. In the
Tangent, Tangent and Radius method define the
circle by specifying two other objects that are
tangent to the circle and the radius of the circle.
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29. Auto Cad
• Arc: ARC command is used draw partial circles in the Auto
CAD drawings. There are seven methods available to draw
an arc in the Auto CAD.
• Those are
i. Specifying 3 points on the arc
Specifying starting point, center and end pointii. Specifying starting point, center and end point
iii. Specifying starting point, center and included angle
iv. Specifying starting point, center and length of the cord
v. Specifying starting point, end point and radius
vi. Specifying starting point, end point and included angle
and
vii. Specifying starting point, end point and direction of start
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30. Auto Cad
• Practice Drawing
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31. Auto Cad
• Polygon: The POLYGONE command is used to
draw a polygon with 3 to 1024 sides by
specifying a circle inscribed or circumscribed
with definite radius or by entering side length of
the polygon.the polygon.
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32. Auto Cad
• Ellipse: This ELLIPSE command is used to draw
ellipses by giving starting and ending angles
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33. Auto Cad
• Practice Drawing
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34. How to Import Picture in AutoCAD
• Insert
• Reference
• Attach
• Select Picture• Select Picture
• Ok
• Select area where want to make Picture
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35. Modify Commands: -
• Copy
• Move
• Rotate
 Erase
 Mirror
 Polar Array
• Rotate
• Scale
• Trim
• Extend
• Fillet
• Chamfer
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 Offset
 Path Array
 Rectangular Array

36. Dimensions : -
• Linear (DLI)
 Used to create horizontal or vertical Dimension
• Aligned (DAL)
 used to create a linear dimension parallel to the used to create a linear dimension parallel to the
object
• Angular (DAN)
 used to create angular a dimension
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37. Dimensions : -
• Arc Length (DAR)
 used to dimension the total or partial length of an
arc
• Radius (DRA)
 used to create a radial dimension of a circle or an
arcarc
• Diameter (DIA)
 (used to create a diameter dimension of a circle or
an arc)
• Centre Mark (DCE)
 (used to create a Centre Mark in a circle or an arc)
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38. How to change Dimension text size : -
• D Entre
• Modify
• Text
• Text Height (Define text height)• Text Height (Define text height)
• close
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40. Text : -
Text Command is used for input text in Auto
CAD
• We can edit all parameter at text editor
page
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We can edit all parameter at text editor
page
 Text Style
 Bold
 Underline
 Symbol
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41. Layers : -
Layer Properties
• Status (Show a green check when a layer is set to
current)
• Name (Show the name of layer)
• On (used to on/off the visibility of a layer. When a
layer is turned on, it shows a yellow light bulb.
When you turn off a layer, it shows a green light-
bulb.)
• Freeze (it is used to freeze the objects of a layer so
that they cannot be modified. Also, the visibility of
the object is turned off.)
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42. Layers : -
Layer Properties
• Lock/Unlock (It is used to lock the layer so that the
object on it cannot be modified.)
• Color (It is used to chose the color of the object)• Color (It is used to chose the color of the object)
• Line type (It is used to chose the line type of layer)
• Line Weight (it is used to set the line weight of the layer)
• Description (it is used for add details of the layer)
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43. Layers : -
Layer Properties
• Create a New Layer
• Making a Layer Current
• Deleting Layer
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44. Title Block : -
Title block size (170 x 80)
• Title
• Draw by• Draw by
• Checked by
• Date
• Approved by
• Scale
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45. Drawing Layouts
There are two workspace in AutoCAD
• Model Space (Create 2D Drawing)
• Paper Space (For Print and Plotting)
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46. Page Setup Manager
It is used for Page setup for Printing
• Output
• Page Setup Manager
• Select Layout
• Modify
• Select parameter
 Select Printer
 Paper Size
 Scale
 Drawing Orientation (Portrait / Landscape)
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47. How to Print Auto Cad File (Ctrl + P)
• Ctrl + P
• Then Select Drawing and Paper Size
• Make• Make
• Print
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