Lets get started.

Make sure that POLAR and OSNAP are on (depressed). These two buttons are located
side by side at the bottom of your screen. OSNAP stands for OBJECT SNAP it allows you to
start a new line at a specific point. POLAR allows you to draw straight lines by
temporarily freezing your object line when it crosses one of the four polar.

Hold your mouse over OSNAP, right click and select setting. This menu should pop up.
Select the same boxes as on the picture below.

Click OK.

You will notice that when we first start drawing our house that our lines will be much
longer then our screen allows, that is normal. I will show you later how to resolve that
situation.

Select the line tool

Click on the lower left corner of your working screen

Point your mouse in the direction that you want to draw you line (in this case to your
right)
Once the line is straight let go of the mouse

Type in the length of your line (dont need to move the mouse, just type 10 000) and
press Enter. Note that AutoCAD uses units, for now the software doesnt know if you
are using cm. or inches.
Press Esc to end the line command
Press Enter. AutoCAD will bring you back to the last command that you have used, in
this case the line tool
Select the left end point of your first line
Point the mouse in the vertical direction
Now type in 8 000 and press Enter.
Press Esc to end the line command.

We now have the two lines that represent the total dimensions of our house. As you have
noticed they are much longer then our screen. To view the whole house, select View from the
menu bar. Now select Zoom followed by Extents. This will reset your drawing limits to the
lines you have just drawn.

Once your drawing is to the right scale complete the outside wall of your house. Remember,
your house is 10 000 mm across and 8 000 mm deep. Once completed your drawing should
look like the following.

SAVE