AutoCAD 2015

PART
PART
PART
PART

I: Interface
II: Learning Basic Commands to Get Started
III: Setting up the drawing size
IV: Drawing strategies

AutoCAD
CADD means Computer Aided Drafting and Design
UNDERSTANDING CADD:
Accuracy and quick input/output drawing
Easy to change
User friendly interface
Essential for drawing coordination (Architectural,
Civil, Mechanical and Electrical)
Used for visualization and estimation

PART I: Interface
TARGET SKILLS

Selecting appropriate template

Changing default settings
Recognizing the elements of the AutoCAD application window
Understanding how the command line interface works and why it is
important
Starting commands from the ribbon
Starting commands from the command line
switching open drawings
Utilizing the Application menu
Saving customized workspace in AutoCAD

Create page
Get started

Connect (AutoDesk
360)

Serves as the File

Cloud computing platform
menu
integrated into AutoCad 2015
Focus on creating new
For storage and rendering
files
Provide quick access to full
Browsing for existing
portfolio of Autodesk 360
files

Learn Page
Access basic information about AutoCAD
Three columns - (what's new, Getting
started videos, Tip)
What's new - Demonstrating new features
and enchancement in AutoCAD 2015
Getting started videos - essential for
creating drawings
Tips - Advance

Selecting template

template acad.dwt

Introducing workspace

default workspace - "Draft and Annotation

worksapce"
Application menu - Containing the tools
for opening, saving and printing your
drawing/s. (file drop down menu)
Quick Access Toolbar - most frequency
used command inside Application menu.
(shorcut)
Title Bar - Analogous to the title bar in any
window program. It cointains the software
name, title of current drawing

Ribbon - Below the title bar, it is the launch pad for

every command used in AutoCAD
File Tabs - Provided as visual method to quickly
swithc open drawing or to create drawing
Drawing Area - Black middle section that is virtually
infinite plane
Cursor - called as Crosshairs, navigate precisely to
compost your design
View Cube - Primarily used to navigate 3D drawings,
contains 26 predefined view orientation

In-canvas viewport control - provide a quick and

convient way to chage "Current view", "Visual
style" and "Viewport configuration"
Navigation bar - Provide access to several
unbiversal and product specific navigation tools
UCS (User coordinate system) - positive
coordinate for the X, Y, Z axes
Command line - Primary method for interacting w/
AutoCAD, displays history of previos actions

Layout Tabs - consist of model tabs anf any number

of layout tabs.
Model tabs - represents your drawing
Layout Tabs - Represents the piec of paper used to
document your drawing

Status bar - managung your interface

First activity
Workspace shifting tool from status bar
from Default "Drafting and Annotation"
to "AutoCAD classic" and back to default "Drafting
anf Annotation"
Command line : WSCURRENT

Second activity
How to adjust your canvass
Drawing area in the center of the screen is an infinite
canvass
View controls tool In-canvass viewport controls
select "TOP OPTION"
IMPORTANCE : To ensure that your drawing is
perpendicular to the drawing area
Visual style control
List of visual styles

Third activity
Choosing your own drawing area
background color .
Default mode - "dark gray"
Command line - "OP"
Application menu Options Display
tab colors button

Command line interface - primary method

of interacting with AutoCAD
One golden rule in AutoCAD
"When in doubt about what you need to
do, or what the program is expecting you
to do look at the command line"
Command line has "Auto complete feature"
meaning even if you type common words
you will be given a selection of commands

Understanding status bar

Grid display - Displaying graph paper like,
including non-plotting horizontal and
vertical lines in the drawing background
Snap mode - Restricting movement of the
cursor indide the drawing area to specified
intervals
Ortho mode - Restrict movement of the
cursor to 90 intervals
Isometric drawing - Aligns cursor to sketch
3D representaion of objects on a 2D plane

Object snap tracking - Advance drafting

tool that allows yoy to draw object with
specific geometric relationships to other
objects within your drawing
Object snap - Helps you draw objects based
on geometric reference point like end point,
mid point, intersection. Used to create
accurate drawing

PART II : Learning Basic Commands to

Get Started
Target Skills
Understanding the basics of coordinates
Distinguishing between absolute and the two
relative coordinate systems used by AutoCAD
Creating coordinates by using the Direct Input
method
Utilizing the LINE, ERASE, OFFSET,FILLET, EXTENT,
AND TRIM commands to create a drawing

USING THE LINE TOOL

LINE command is essential to all AutoCAD drawings. It
draws a straight- line segment between locations on
existing objects, geometric features, or two points that
you can choose anywhere within the area.
you can designated these points by
left-clicking them on the screen
By entering the x and y coordinates for each point
By entering the distance and angles from the existing point

then you can end the line or draw another line segment
beginning from the end of the previous one.

1. Click the new tab icon at the

right end of the File tab
interface. This opens the
create page of the New Tab
interface
2. Under the Start Drawing too.
click the disclosure triangle for
templates. Select acad.dwt
3. Before you begin drawing
anything, first check your
drawing aid. Make sure that
Polar tracking, Object Snap
tracking, Grid display and
Object snap are turned off and
that all the others are turned
OFF
4. From the ribbon, choose home
tab and Click LINE tool. you
can also start a line by typeing
LINE or L in command line and
press enter

5. The prompt now tells

you that the LINE
command is started.
Specify the first point