Mastering AutoCAD

Chapter 1
The AutoCAD window displays a number of components…
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You can change AutoCAD’s appearance through Workspaces

As you will learn in this session, you can easily arrange the AutoCAD window in any
way you like. Once you’ve arranged the window, you can save your arrangement as a
named workspace.
You can also change workspaces on the fly using the Workspace Switching option in
the status bar.
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The 2D Drafting
& Annotation
Workspace.

You’ll focus on
the 2D Drafting
and Annotation
workspace for
most of this
class.
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The AutoCAD
3D Modeling
workspace.
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Ribbon panels at the top of the AutoCAD Window give you access to nearly all of
the features in AutoCAD.
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Important features at the bottom of the AutoCAD Window offer information and
control over other features
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As is typical in other
Windows graphic
programs, If you
click in the drawing
area, a selection
window appears.
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Try drawing a
rectangle
using the
Home tab’s
Draw panel to
the right.

Pay attention
to the
command
window at the
bottom of the
window as
you draw.
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Open the Clip drawing. You’ll see a different view from the default view of a new
drawing. This is the Layout view which is used to set up views for printing or plotting.
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Select the Model tool in the status bar and you will see a 3D view of the clip. This
is the Model view and it is where you do your drawing and editing.
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You can switch to a top or plan view, then

zoom in on a portion of the drawing using the
Zoom Window option in the Navigation bar’s
Zoom flyout.
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Select a part of the drawing and press the delete key, or click the erase tool in
the Modify Ribbon panel.