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CIV.E. 125/ENV.E 100

Engineering Concepts

AutoCAD Tutorial #6
Multi-View Drawings

November 13, 2014

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Overview:
• the next phase of the course involves the use of AutoCAD to create detailed
drawings of 3D objects in the XY plane. In this tutorial, each team will
construct a multi-view drawing of a simple 3D object.

Source: slideshare.net Source: sippdrawing.com

• these tutorial notes were originally created by Dr. Bob McKillop. Improvements
to the notes are credited to Laurel Hoffarth, Laura Bossers, Emma Buckrell,
Luke McLeod, Savannah Vetter, Morgan Crane, Kathryn Kerker & Aniket Verma.
 Multiview drawings are
drawings that are used
to represent an object
from multiple
viewpoints.

Orthographics views
are developed by
rotating about the
object in intervals of
90 degrees from the
front view. As
illustrated, front, top,
bottom, right left, and
rear are all
orthographic views of
the same object

An engineering drawing includes only as many

views and as much information as necessary to
clearly and completely describe the shape and
features of the object.
Source: jeffreyjjensen.com
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File Management

• in this tutorial you will be creating a new drawing.

From the Windows START command, select:

Start AutoCAD
All Programs/Graphics and Design/Autodesk/AutoCAD 2012 -
English/AutoCAD 2012 – English

No need for a border

drawing with this tutorial!

Save your drawing Type: ‘save’ (On the command line) press the <enter> key

When the Save Drawing As dialogue box is displayed, save the file as
ID#1_Tutorial_06.dwg in the following folder:

CIVE125/AutoCAD_files/Homework

or

ENVE100/AutoCAD_files/Homework
Load Linetypes Load the hidden line type as you did in Tutorial #5.
If you don’t remember how to do this refer back to Tutorial #5.

• scaling the spacing of the

hidden (or dashed) lines is
extremely important because
of this particular drawing’s
overall size.

• after loading the hidden lines:

Change line scaling With the Linetype Manager open, select the “Show Details”
button

Under the hidden line details, ensure that:

Scale Factors
“Global scale factor” : 1.0000
“Current object scale”: 1.0000
Create the drawing layers On the command line type: LAYER and press the <enter> key.
The Layer Properties Manager window will be displayed.

Click on the new layer icon (or press Alt-N at the keyboard)
and call your new layer Obj. Set the colour to white and the line
type to continuous. This new layer will be our layer containing
the lines defining our object.

Similarly,
• create a new layer called Hidden. This will contain the
object’s hidden lines. Set the colour to white and the line type
to hidden
• create a new layer called Dim. This will contain the lines and
text that dimension the object. Set the colour to red and the
line type to continuous.
Select the layer called Obj as the current layer.
Set the Current Layer
Your dialogue box should look similar to the one shown.
Set type and precision of Ensure that your units are set up as explained in Tutorial 5 with a
units precision of 4 decimal places (0.0000) for lengths, and 2 decimal
places (0.00) for angles.

Ensure that the clockwise box is selected.

 Since your drawing will take place in the current plane, remove the
Remove the UCS Icon UCS Icon to eliminate unnecessary clutter.

On the command line type: UCSICON and press <enter>

Then type: Off and press <enter>

Your screen should look similar to the one below, on the left.

We also recommend that

you turn your grid off from
this point onwards.
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We will now begin the

construction of the
object. The 3D drawing of
the object is shown below.

The goal of this tutorial is

for you to draw a 2D
representation of this
object by drawing top,
front and side views.
Setup the initial drawing areas. Since there are three different views needed in this drawing it is
important to determine the three areas where each view will be
represented.

Creating the front view area. On the command line type: LINE and press <enter>
Create lines from:

Be sure you (0, 0) to (110, 0)

understand what we (110, 0) to (110, 50)
are telling you what to (110, 50) to (0, 50)
do! (0, 50) to (0, 0)

In the upcoming quiz, Press <enter> to close the line command.

you will be required to
create the appropriate Note: You do not have to make four lines individually. Simply
line work on your own. type:
Line – (0, 0) – (110, 0) – (110, 50) – (0, 50) – (0, 0) – <enter>

Creating the top view area. In the command line type: LINE and press <enter>
Create lines from:

(0, 70) to (110, 70)

(110, 70) to (110, 120)
(110, 120) to (0, 120)
(0, 120) to (0, 70)

Type <enter> to close the line command.

Use the OFFSET command to
establish a series of parallel vertical
construction lines.
We will trim, extend or erase these
lines as we progress through the
drawing.
Finishing the side view area.
Top View
Front View
On the command line type: OFFSET and press the <enter> key.
A number of prompts will be displayed. Specify the following:
Specify Offset distance or [Through/Erase/Layer] <1.0>: 20
Select object to offset: select right vertical line of your front view
Side to Offset? locate your mouse pointer somewhere to the
right of the right vertical line and left-click
your mouse.
Type <enter> to close the offset command.
Repeat this process to offset the new line another 50 units to the right.
Once the two vertical lines have been offset to the proper distances use
the object snap (‘osnap’) and the line command to create the horizontal lines
at the top and bottom of the vertical lines.
Side View
Create the projection Now it is time to create your projection line.
line. On the command line type: LINE and press <enter>

Specify first point: Choose the top right corner of the front view
(110,50)
Specify second point: @100<315

Your drawing should appear like the following

If your line is displayed at the incorrect angle, go back to slide 238
Create the object lines of the On the command line type: LINE and press <enter>.
front view. Create lines that connect these points:

(0,0) - (0,10) - (20,10) - (20,50) - (40,50) - (40,40) - (70,40) -

(70,50) - (90,50) - (90,10) - (110,10) - (110,0) - (75,0) - (75,20) -
(35,20) - (35,0) - (0,0)
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then return to these instructions…

Draw a hidden line Select Hidden as the current layer.

Then draw a line from point (20,30) to (90,30).

Clean up your front view. Erase all of the previous construction lines from your front view.

The TRIM command has a On the command line type: EXTEND and press the <enter> key
sister command.
Again, you will be prompted for several items of information on the
We will now use the Extend command line:
command to extend a line
instead of cutting it. Select boundary edge(s)...
Select objects: when using extend pick the horizontal/vertical
line to which your vertical/horizontal line will
be extended. In our case, choose the top
horizontal line of the top view area and press
the <enter> key.

<Select object to extend>/Undo:

pick the end of the line to be extended. In
this case, click on all the vertical lines (near
the top of each line) in the front view.

The vertical lines should now extend to the top of your drawing.
Press the <enter> key to finish the command.

Trim Use the TRIM command to make your drawing the same as the one on
the next page.
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Create the hidden lines. Determine which of the vertical lines in the top view are not
visible from the top of the object. Select the lines that you
believe will be hidden in this view.

After these lines have been selected go to the layer menu and
choose Hidden. Your lines should now be on the hidden layer.
Completing the top view Draw a LINE from point (20,80) to (90,80) in the Obj layer.
Now offset this line a distance of 30 units up.

TRIM the center part of the 2 solid lines that are located
between the two lines you just created. This will create the two
sides of the object.
Use the Using the EXTEND command, extend the two interior horizontal lines in the top
projection line view to the angled projection line you created earlier.

Draw a line to On the command line type: LINE and press <enter>
the bottom of Specify first point: Choose the intersection of the projection line and one of the
the side view extended lines.
area
Specify second point: PERP TO
Then, click on the bottom horizontal line of the side view.
Repeat for the other extended line.
Extend horizontal lines EXTEND all of the interior horizontal lines from the front view to
the farthest right vertical line of the side view.

Cleaning up your drawing Use the TRIM command to delete any lines that do not occur in one
of the three original drawing areas.

Also, trim all unnecessary lines within the area boxes that were
created due to the extension command.

If you have
not done so
recently, save
your work!
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Finish the side view For the final step of this tutorial complete the side view of the drawing
using the TRIM command and change the layer where necessary.

As with your previous quiz, dimension the drawing fully.

See the completed drawings on the next two pages for guidance.

Show your completed drawing to a TA in order to receive your quiz.

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All dimensions have a precision

of one decimal place.

Trailing 'zeros' are NOT

suppressed.

Dimensions are displayed

parallel to the dimension lines.
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Take a few moments to examine your

drawing and the 3D model to see how
each of the views were obtained.

You will be asked to determine each

view on your own in today's quiz.