BASIC CAD (CAD 311)

TOPIC: FREEHAND SKETCHES

Sketching is useful for creating irregular boundaries or for tracing with a digitizer.

You can draw freehand sketches and then convert them into lines, polylines, or splines.

With the SKETCH command, you create a series of tiny segments. Setting the
SKETCHINC system variable, you can control the incremental length of each segment.
With the SKPOLY system variable, you can control whether the result is a series of
independent line segments, a polyline, or a spline (the SKTOLERANCE system variable
controls how closely the spline matches the original sketch).

Sketch in Tablet Mode

You use Tablet mode with a digitizer. Sketching in Tablet mode is useful for such things
as tracing map outlines from paper directly into a drawing. You cannot turn off Tablet
mode while sketching.

When Tablet mode is on, you can configure the program to map the paper drawing's
coordinate system directly into the world coordinate system. Thus, there is a direct
correlation between the coordinates where screen crosshairs appear, the coordinates on
the tablet, and the coordinates in the original paper drawing. After configuring the program
to match the coordinates of the paper drawing, you may find that the area shown on the
screen is not the area you need.

Reference:
Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 User’s Guide