Autocad training

Royal University of Bhutan
Jigme Namgyel Engineering College
Department of Civil Engineering & Surveying
Resourced By : Phurba Tamang
Designation: Associate lecturer
Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying
Jigme Namgyel Engineering College
Training on Surveying with Applications of Total Station, LISCAD & Autodesk AutoCAD cum Civil 3D
“Computer Aided Drafting using Autodesk AutoCAD”

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MID-TERM REVIEW, 2017
• 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.
• Autodesk is an U.S.A based 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.
Introduction
Resourced By: Phurba Tamang, Associate Lecturer, JNEC

• AutoCAD software was firstly launched by Autodesk company in Dec. 1982.
• 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…
• This time, we have the latest version of AutoCAD is 2019.
• Latest version is easy and over come the difficulties of old version.
Versions of AutoCAD

Capabilities of AutoCAD

Getting Started
• Check whether AutoCAD is installed:
Start> Programs> AutoCAD 2014.
• If yes:
Double-click the software center icon on the desktop to launch the software.
• If not:
• Install the software. (Software shall be distributed to the trainees)

Used for
Creating new
drawing
Inbuilt
templates
Opening
Existing
Files

Drop Down Menu
Pick a command by clicking
the left button, and a Dropdown
Menu appears
Drawing Space/Window
Your view onto the drawing. Can
have any size limits you set.
The Command Area
Command lines at the bottom of the screen where prompts
appear and text commands, coordinates etc. can be typed in.
Press (Ctrl+9)
Ribbon tab
Quick Access Toolbar
Toolbar
View cube
Navigation Bar
Status Bar (Blue: ON, Gray: OFF

Grid ON and OFF (F7)
Dynamic Input (F12)
Ortho (F8)
Object Snap (F3)
Polar Tracking (F10)
Line weight Display
Dynamic User Coordinate System
Workspace switching
Customisation
Frequently Used:
1. Dynamic Input: Gives input/details in cross hair.
Off On
2. Ortho - cursor movement is constrained to the horizontal or
vertical directions only predefined – X & Y axis.
3. Object Snap- used to select commonly needed points while
creating or editing a drawing- end point, center of a circle

Special Key Functions
• Escape Key (ESC) Cancels the current command, menu or Dialog Box.
• Enter Key ends a command, or will repeat the previous command if the
command line is blank.
• Space Bar Same as the Enter Key, except when entering text.
• Use scroll bar to zoom in and zoom out.
• Press and hold scroll bar to pan the working space.
• Ctl+z to undo or revert the work to previous state

Drawing Lines
• A LINE can be one segment or a series of connected segments. Each segment is
a individual object.
One segment
Series of Connected Segment
• Start the Line command by using one of the following methods:
1. PULLDOWN MENU = DRAW / LINE
2. TOOLBAR = DRAW
3. Type = L <enter>

Drawing Lines
Lines are drawn by specifying the locations for the endpoints.
• Move the cursor to the location of the “first” endpoint then press the left mouse
button.
• Move the cursor again to the “next” endpoint and press the left mouse button.
Continue locating “next” endpoints until you want to stop.
(OSNAP should be ON)
NOTE:
To draw perfectly Horizontal or Vertical lines select the ORTHO mode by clicking
on the ORTHO button on the Status Bar or pressing F8.

Drawing Lines
Erasing a line
Method 1:
1. Select the Erase command first and then select the objects.
• PULLDOWN = MODIFY / ERASE
• TOOLBAR = MODIFY
• Select objects: pick one or more objects
2. Select objects: press <enter> and the objects will disappear
Method 2:
Select the Objects first and then the Delete key
1. Select the object(s) to be erased.
2. Press the Delete key.

Practice
1. Practice drawing lines using the command from the toolbar and from
command line.
2. Learn to erase the lines using the command from the toolbar and the command
line.
3. Draw straight lines turning the ORTHO mode on.
4. Save the drawing using Quick Access tool in a desired folder or a disk.
Guide:
Shortcut key for Line: <L>
Shortcut key for Eraser <E>

Drawing Circle, Polylines, Rectangles, Polygon
1. Draw circles,
2. Draw rectangles,
3. Polygons
4. Polylines, etc.
Practice:
1. Create a folder in the Desktop and name it as AutoCAD.
2. Open the AutoCAD file and save the AutoCAD file as “practice” in the
Desktop>AutoCAD.
3. Open practice.dwg from the Autocad folder and practice drawings.

Exercise
1. Start a New file 2.
2. Draw the objects below using:
• Turn Ortho (f8) ON for Horizontal and Vertical lines
• Turn Ortho (f8) OFF for lines drawn on an Angle.
• Turn Osnap (f3) ON
3. Save this drawing using:
• File / Save as / Practice

Editing Objects
1. Move 2. Copy
Similarly try out the command like Trim, Extend, Offset, Fillet

Tips for Editing Commands
1. TRIM
• Provide Trim command
• Press Enter
• Click on Objects to trim.
2. EXTEND
• Provide Extend Command.
• Press Enter
• Click on Objects to Extend
3. OFFSET
• Provide Offset command
• Enter the offset distance
• Click on Objects to offset

Drawing Setup
1. Start a new AutoCAD page.
2. Go to Format|Units or Type Units in the command line.
3. Set the units to any unit say mm using this dialogue
box.
4. Change the precision limits to 0.00.
5. Press OK after confirming the units.
6. Set Limits by going to Format|Drawing limits or Type
Limits in the command line.
7. Set limits by entering (0,0 and 10000,10000).
7. You are now set to start the drafting.

Drawing Setup
1. For changing the dimension style
2. Go to Format|Dimension style or Type “d” in the
command line. A dialogue box appears.
3. Click on Modity to change the text and
dimension styles.

Drawing Setup
4. Click on Symbols and Arrows tab to change
the arrow type and size.
5. Changes can be seen in the preview section.
6. Similarly go to text tab to change the size
of the text.
7. Click ok to confirm

Simple Exercise
1. Set up the AutoCAD file.
2. Set up the page units to meters.
3. Draw a line of 20 meters
4. Draw a rectangle of (20x10)m.
5. Provide dimensions to the drawn line and rectange.
6. Try saving the file.
Hints:
For setting units Go to Format|Units or Type “units” and enter in command line.
For dimension style Go to Format|Dimension style and make changes.

Introduction to object properties
1. CHANGING THE COLOR OF AN OBJECT.
• Go to Format|color and choose the desire color from
the dialogue box OR Choose from the toolbar
• Choose a desired color and draw objects.
2. CHANGING THE LINE WEIGHT
• Go to Format|Lineweight and choose a
suitable line thickness form the
dialogue box and press Enter to confirm.
OR
• Choose from the toolbar and draw the object.
• Turn on the light weight from status bar
to view the line weights.

Exercise
1. Draw a red line.
2. Draw a blue circle
3. Draw a green rectangle
4. Draw a line of 0.3 mm thickness
5. Draw a line with 1 mm thickness.
6. Try inserting a text and write “Drawn by:<yourname>”
7. Try using match property command.
Hints:
For setting units Go to Format|Color to change the color.
For dimension style Go to Format|lineweight to change the line thickness.
Turn on Line weight on the status bar.

Working with layers
CREATING A LAYER
1. Go to Format|Layers
2. A dialogue box consisting of layer properties appears.
3. Click to create new layer
4. Rename the layer.
APPLYING A LAYER
1. Click Once on the object to change.
2. Select the desired layer
from the Layer Control Box
dropdown.
3. AutoCAD will move the object
to the new layer

EXERCISE
• Create three layers and rename each layers as Circle, Rectangle and Triangle.

• Create the models as shown below

• Select the object, lets say circle.

• After selecting the circle
• Go to the layer toolbar and click on the dropdown arrow.

The layer named circle has been successfully applied to the object
• Similarly apply the remaining layers to the remaining objects

Exercise
Create and apply layers to the following objects.

Creating layout
• Layouts are generally used as a template for any objects drafted by
AutoCAD for printing purposes.
PREPARING LAYOUT
• Setup the layout page.
• Go to the Paper Space and adjust the view port.
OR delete the existing view port and give the command “mv” and create
a customized view port. Accordingly adjust the drawing by zooming in
and out

Right click on the layout
to rename or setup the
layout page.

Printing the Drawing

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