The Sketching and Annotation, Pre-Civil, and Pre-Architectural units use AutoCAD or AutoCAD based appplications. To ensure thatyou have the prerequisite basic skills to use these applications a series of introductory exercises are provided. The objectives of the exercises are as follows:
- Navigate the AutoCAD graphic environment, zooming and panning to view objects, using the command window, the help system, and exploring environment settings and function keys.
- Configure fundamental drawing settings and options such as scale, grid, snap, object snap, file paths, and display colors.
- Create basic AutoCAD objects such as lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and polygons using menus, palettes, keyboard commands, mouse controls, coordinates, and object snaps
- Modify AutoCAD objects using multiple techniques including grip editing and object properties
- User layers to control object settings.
- Navigate and view objects in 3D
- Create reusable internal blocks and world blocks
- Use externally referenced drawings in the current drawing
- Draw objects in paper space (layouts) and configure one or more viewports in a layout.
- Create a properly formatted layout with required map elements such as a title block, north arrow, border, and scale.
- Configure the page setup and plot layouts to an engineering scale.
No comments:
Post a Comment