AutoCAD Intro

1. Introduction
to AutoCAD:
The Interface
BELIR, ALBERT B.
Course Facilitator

2. “Being proficient with CAD and its user interface can help
make drafting tasks easier based on how familiar you are with
all the tools that are just a click away.”

6. Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
also known as computer-aided drafting
(CAD) or computer-aided design and
drafting (CADD) , is the use of computer
systems to assist in the creation,
modification, analysis, or optimization
of a design.

7. Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Computer-aided drafting
describes the process of creating
a technical drawing with the use
of computer software.

8. CAD Software Uses
-to increase the productivity
of the designer,
- improve the quality of design,
- improve communications
through documentation and
- to create a database for
manufacturing.

9. CAD Outputs
The output of CAD must convey
information, such as :
-materials,
-processes,
-dimensions,
-and tolerances,
according to application-specific
conventions.

10. The Software
AutoCAD is a commercial product
made by Autodesk.

11. The Interface
The AutoCAD user interface — or UI as it’s
often referred to
ELEMENTS
Title Bar Command Line
Menus Status Bar
Toolbar Status bar Tray
Info Center Clean Screen icon
Dockable Window

13. Preparing a Plan
Using CAD
BELIR, ALBERT B.
Course Facilitator

14. “Being proficient with CAD and its user interface can help
make drafting tasks easier based on how familiar you are with
all the tools that are just a click away.”

15. Setting Up AutoCAD to Work With
Architectural Drafting Style
Creating a Template File
Creating a User Profile

16. Creating a Template File
layers
text styles
dimension styles
layouts and
plotting
Your Template file can then be used to open new drawings to
eliminate having to set up these changes again in the future.

17. Creating a Template File
layers
text styles
dimension styles
layouts and
plotting
Your Template file can then be used to open new drawings to
eliminate having to set up these changes again in the future.

18. Templates have the filename extension
of *.dwt. The easiest way to make your
standard settings permanent for later
reuse is to create your own Template
File.

19. THINGS to CONSIDER
List of Layers
with associated line types, colors, and line weights
Text styles
Dimension styles
AutoCAD variable settings
Layout settings
Viewport(s)
Plotting parameters
printer to plot
paper size,
plot scale
drawing orientation

20. Layers
A whole section of a
drawing can be turned on
or off, or simply one aspect
can be controlled - text for
example. This is all done by
using layers within
AutoCAD.

21. Description Line Thickness in mm. Color Codes
Object line 0.50 CYAN
Hidden Line 0.30 GREEN
Center Line 0.10 RED
Cutting Plane Line 0.80 BLUE
Reference Line 0.10 RED
Reference Bubbles 0.10 RED
Dimension Line 0.10 RED
Extension Line 0.10 RED
Leader Line with Arrows 0.10 RED
Text

22. Dimensioning
Dimscale for different metric scales:
Metric Scale Dim Scale
1:100 .1
1:200 .2
1:250 .25
1:500 .5
1:1000 1
1:2000 2
1:10000 10

23. Dimensioning
All the dimensioning variables
should be sized in terms of
millimeters.

24. Text Style to Assign to Dimensions
This text style will not need to be
"Annotative," but it will be compressed
horizontally in order to facilitate placing
dimension numbers between extension
lines.

26. Set up the Status Bar
The Status Bar is at the bottom of the
screen on the left side and displays ten
pictorial icons representing drawing
status settings.

27. If you don’t want to see a
particular button in the Status
Bar, you can make it invisible by
right clicking on any button and
select the "Display" command,
then uncheck the ones you don't
want to appear.

28. Set the following Object Snap functions
Endpoint
Midpoint
Center
Node
Quadrant
Intersection
Perpendicular
Nearest

29. Set the following Object Snap functions
Endpoint
Midpoint
Center
Node
Quadrant
Intersection
Perpendicular
Nearest

30. Standard Printing Specifications
Given this ease of changing sizes, it is
of course common to copy or print a
given document on different sizes of
paper.

31. Standard Printing Specifications
Given this ease of changing sizes, it is of
course common to copy or print a given
document on different sizes of paper.

32. Standard
Paper Size

33. Create a Layout of
Border and Title Block
Elements of the Layout of Border
and Title Blocks
A unique name
Title informational border
Paper Space and Model Space
Viewpoints