Viewing

VIEWING: PAN AND ZOOM

 PAN
 Direct Use: Position the cursor and hold mouse wheel down and drag
 Right mouse click on the screen or Command: PAN
 Hold on left click and move the cursor
 ZOOM
 Direct Use: Position the cursor and rotate the wheel in/out
(forward/backward)
 Right Mouse click on the screen
 Position the cursor and hold on left click while moving the mouse
up/down
 ZOOM: (All / Extents – double click to wheel / Window / Previous)
Reference: Autodesk AutoCAD 2020 - Help, AutoCAD User's Guide, Getting Started, Learning Videos
 VIEWING: OBJECT PROPERTIES
 Object properties control the appearance and behavior of objects, and are used
to organize a drawing.
 Every object has general properties including its layer, color, linetype,
linetype scale, lineweight, transparency, and plot style.
 In addition, objects have properties that are specific to their type. For example,
the special properties of a circle include its radius and area.
 When you specify the current properties in a drawing, all newly created objects
use those settings automatically. For example, if you set the current layer to
Dimensions, the objects that you create will be on the Dimensions layer.
 You can set some properties of an object either by layer (ByLayer), or by
specifying the property explicitly, independent of its layer.
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View  properties or double click

VIEWING: OBJECT PROPERTIES

 Home  match properties

VIEWING: OBJECT PROPERTIES

TO ASSIGN SHOWS ONLY

THE SAME THE COMMON
PROPERTIES PROPERTIES
ex
• Draw a red line
• Draw a circle
• match

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 MODEL SPACE VS PAPER SPACE

 There are two distinct working environments

 Model Space: a limitless 3D drawing area where you start working in by
default. You set whether one unit represents one millimeter, one centimeter,
one inch, one foot, or whatever unit is most convenient. You then draw at
1:1 scale.
 Paper Space: used to prepare your drawing for printing.

Reference: Autodesk AutoCAD 2020 - Help, AutoCAD User's Guide, Layout and Output Drawings
Right click  page set up manager  modify
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Selecting Objects
 SELECTING OBJECTS
1 click, select, 1 click window
selection

 Individual Selection
 Left click in series: adds object to selection one by one
 Multiple Selection (Ctrl+A: selects everything)
 Selection window by dragging cursor from left to right: to select objects
that are completely enclosed by the window (Blue Window)

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Quick
selection,
crossing
is enough
SELECTING OBJECTS

 Selection window by dragging cursor from right to left: to create a crossing

selection, which selects all objects that are crossed or enclosed by the window
(all touching objects) (Green Window)
 Clearing selection
 Press ESC: to clear the current selection completely

crossing
selection

 CustomizeFor rectangular selection  by right click  selection 

unclick “lasso selection”
Considerations
 CUSTOMIZATION OF RIBBON
 Minimization to:
 Tabs
 Panel Titles
 Panel Buttons
 Cycle through All (all expanded)

 Right click:
 Show Tabs / Panels / Panel Titles
 Tool Palette Group
 UNITS

 Units do not belong to any measurement

system, user decides the equivalence of
units.
 Command: UNITS
 Controls the precision and display formats
for coordinates, distances, and angles.
 You should define units (milimeters for
this course) to ease scaling when
importing or exporting (units are to be
defined when required).
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413E-BB4E-F5D2A96CB14A-htm.html
 STYLES

 You can define ready to use styles to prevent their identification in each use:
 Under Annotation Panel
 Text Style
 Dimension Style
 Multileader Style
 Table Style
 3 click to draw dimension
 If identified they become selectable in the panel (menu) or under Annotation or
on the command line
Command: Dimstyle

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Command: Dimstyle

• Right click =>

quick
properites 
dimstyle
(select )

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 TEMPLATES
 New drawings start from either a default or custom drawing template file
 Drawing template file: is a drawing file (.dwt file) that specifies the styles,
settings, and layouts in a drawing, including title blocks. Includes settings on:
 Units of measure and measurement style (UNITS),
 Drafting settings (DSETTINGS),
 Layers and layer properties (LAYER),
 Linetype scale (LTSCALE),
 Dimension styles (DIMSTYLE),
 Text styles (STYLE),
 Layouts with layout viewports and scales (LAYOUT),
 Plot and publishing settings (PAGESETUP)
Reference: Autodesk AutoCAD 2020 - Help, AutoCAD User's Guide, Manage Drawing and Other Files
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 OPTIONS
 Command line  options

 Options Dialog Box (OPTIONS)

 Right click: at the end of the list
 Application button: bottom left corner on the right section

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 SAFETY OF DATA

 Safety of your drawing data

 Use backup files
 In the Options dialog box Open and Save tab you can
specify that backup files are created when you save
drawings (.bak files).

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  Save your drawing automatically at specified intervals
 If you turn the automatic save option on, your drawing is saved at
specified time intervals (.sv$ files).
 The temporary files (files related with commands, e.g., undo) are
automatically deleted when a drawing closes normally. In the event of
a program/power failure, these files are not deleted.
 Rename the .bak/.sv$ file in Windows/File Explorer to a .dwg file.

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Shortcuts
 MOUSE CONTROLS

double click: zoom extents

shift + push: rotation in 3D

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 ONE-KEY SHORTCUTS

Reference: https://www.autodesk.com/shortcuts/autocad
 FUNCTION KEYS

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 UNDO, REDO AND OOPS!

 Command UNDO: reverses the effect of commands (Shortcut: Ctrl+Z).

 Command REDO: reverses the effects of previous UNDO (Shortcut: Ctrl+Y).

 Undo and Redo commands are also available on "Quick Access Toolbar".

 Command OOPS: restores objects erased by the last ERASE command,

even if it has not been the last command you used.

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THE RIBBON
 RIBBON TABS
 Home
 Insert
 Annotate
 Parametric
 View
 Manage
 Output
 Add-ins
 Collaborate
 Express Tools
 Featured Apps
 RIBBON PANELS
 Home Tab Panels
 Draw
 Modify
 Annotation
 Layers
 Block
 Properties
 Groups
 Utilities
 Clipboard
 View
Layers Panel
 LAYERS

 What are layers? Why they are needed?

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 LAYERS

 What are layers? Why they are needed?

Reference: https://autocad-beginners.blogspot.com/2018/01/27-5-example5-tutorial-finished-2d.html
 LAYERS

 What are layers? Why they are needed?

Reference: https://www.cadstudio.cz/dl/AutoCAD%20LT%202020%20Brochure.pdf
 LAYERS
 Layers are the primary method for organizing the objects in a drawing by
function or purpose.
 Layers can reduce the visual complexity of a drawing and improve display
performance by hiding information that you don’t need to see at the moment.
 In a house plan, you might create layers for the foundation, floor plan, doors,
fixtures, electrical, and so on.
 In this example, the display is limited to the objects on the Floor Plan layer by
turning off the other layers.

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 LAYERS
 Layers: to organize the objects in a drawing
 Grouping similar objects
 Enabling quick select of objects
 Turning a layer on/off for displaying/printing  layon command
 Locking layers to prevent unwanted changes
 It provides consistency in drawing. If you prefer to create a specific object
with a different property, you can change Object Properties, which will
make it free from the changes made to its layer.
 HOME  "Layer Properties" to create and manage layers
 Add layer
 Double click to make it current layer
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 LAYERS

 Use the Layer Properties Manager to manage your layers, Command: LAYER
 Create, rename, and remove layers
 Set the current layer on which new objects are automatically created
 Specify the default properties for objects on the layer
 Set whether the objects on a layer are displayed or turned off
 Control whether objects on a layer are plotted
 Set whether a layer is locked against editing
 Control the layer display properties for layout viewports
 Sort, filter, and group layer names

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 LAYERS: CREATE NEW LAYER

 Click "Layer Properties"  "New Layer" button  Click to make current!

 Name: "0" default
 On / Freeze / Lock
 Color
 Linetype
 Lineweight
 Transparency

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 LAYERS
 Linetypes can be a pattern of dashes, dots, text, and symbols, or unbroken and
continuous. Increasing lineweights results in thicker, darker lines.

 Linetype scale controls the size and spacing of repetitions of the linetype
pattern for each drawing unit.

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 COMMAND: LAYER (LA)

 Layer Properties
 LAYERS: PROPERTIES

 Linetype settings (Click Linetype on Layer Properties, Command: LINETYPE)

 Lineweight settings

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 LAYERS: PROPERTIES

 Lineweight settings (Command: LWEIGHT)

 Detail!!
LAYERS: PROPERTIES

 Linetype manager

 Command: LINETYPE
 LAYERS: PROPERTIES

 Linetype manager

 Commad: LINETYPE

 Linetype scale
 Command: LTSCALE
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 LAYERS: PROPERTIES

 Changing Layer, Linetype, Lineweight, Linetype scale in Specific Object

 Command: PROPERTIES
 Right click  properties
 Anlık özellik değişimi

 Changing Layer properties in Specific Object

LINE TYPES

Solid line

Solid line

Command: SKETCH Solid line

ISO dash

ISO long-dash dot

LINE TYPES (TS 88-21, EN ISO 128-20,21)
LINE TYPES (TS 88-21, EN ISO 128-20,21)
LINE TYPES (TS 88-21, EN ISO 128-20,21)
LINE ALPHABET
LINE ALPHABET
 LINE TYPES EXAMPLE

Long
dash
dotted
line