Catanduanes State Colleges

College of Technology
DEPARTENT OF ENGINEERING
Virac, Catanduanes

WORKBOOK/
LAB MANUAL
in

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

AND DRAFTING I
(CADD-I)

Written and compiled by:

ENGR. DEXTER M. TOYADO

August, 2009
 Catanduanes State Colleges
College of Technology
DEPARTENT OF ENGINEERING
Virac, Catanduanes

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION

This is to certify that the Workbook/ Laboratory Manual entitled “COMPUTER

AIDED DESIGN AND DRAFTING LAB MANUAL” authored by Engr. Dexter M. Toyado, is
being used and recognized by this Colleges for use of students taking up IT-3 (CADD-1) at
the College of Technology, Department of Engineering.

Issued this 15th day of September, 2009 at Virac, Catanduanes.

Engr. EMMANUEL R. SORIAO

Dean, College of Technology

DR. ESTRELLA S. PLACIDES

CIMC Director

DR. AIDA A. DIANELA

VP for Academic Affairs
 Acknowledgement

The author of this student workbook is indebted to

Stellman and Krishnan, author of Harnessing AutoCad,
Autodesk Press, Publisher of Autocad Online Help,
whose works have been compiled by this
author to provide a step by step
approach to conduct
CADD class.

This work is also dedicated t the students of the

CSC- Department of Engineering,
Virac, Catanduanes.

DMT
 Table of Content

Introduction 1
CAD/CADD – Computer Aided Design and Drafting 2
Field of use 3
History 4
Capabilities 5
Software Technologies 6
Hardware and OS TEchnologies 7
Using CAD 7
The Effect of CAD 8
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 9
Student Version, Vertical Program, File Format 10
Basic AutoCAD 11
AutoCAD Quick Start 11
Digitizing Tablet, Keyboard Function Keys 12
Starting a new Drawing 12
X,Y coordinate system 13
Angular MEasurement 14
Entering points in AutoCAD 14
Basic AutoCAD Terminology 15
Drawing Limits and Units 17
Basic Draw Command 1 18
Lines, Rectang, Circle, Arc, Erase, Undo, Redo, & oops command 18
Coordinate Display 20
Coordinate Entry 20
Coordinate Modes 20
Direct Distance entry 20
Exercises 1 & 2 21
Plate 1 22
Zoom Command 25
Zoom Command, The Wheel Mouse 26
Exercise 3 26
Accuracy Enhancement Tools 27
Accuracy Tools 27
Snap to single point 28
Running Object Snap 28
Exercise 4 & 5 28
Layers 29
Plate 2 30
Plate 2A 33
Plate 2B 34
Draw Command 2 35
Xline, Ray, Polygon, Ellipse, Polyline, Spline 36
Text Command and Manipulation 37
 Text, Mtext, Edit, and Spell Command 38
Basic Modify Command 1 39
Erase, Copy, Offset, Mirror, Move, and Trim Command 40
Plate 3 40
Plate 4 45
Modify Command 2 47
Array, Fillet, Chamfer, Break, Extend, Lengthen, Stretch, 48
Rotate, and Scale Command
Plate 5 49
Plate 6 50
Plate 7 51
Plate 8 52
Plate 9 53
Plate 10 54
Geometric Figures 55
Donut, Solid, Point, Revcloud, Sketch 56
Plate 11 56
Properties
Properties, Match Properties 59
Pedit 59
Multilines 60
Creating, Editing, and Style 60
Plate 12 62
Inquiry and Utility Command 74
Plate 13 75
Dimensioning 76
Plate 14 77
Hatching, Boundary, and Fill 78
Blocks 80
Autocad Design Center 81
Plate 15 82
References 87
Extra CADD Exercises 88