Civil Engineering Communication

CRN: 31890
Credit Rating: 20 Credits
Level 4, Semesters 1 & 2

Dr Juliana Byzyka BEng (Hons) MSc PhD AFHEA MIET

Room 101, Newton Building
Email: j.byzyka@salford.ac.uk

Programmes:
B.Eng (Hons) / M.Eng (Hons) Civil Engineering
B.Eng (Hons) / M.Eng (Hons) Civil & Architectural Engineering
B.Sc (Hons) Civil Engineering
 Launch AutoCAD

 Questions from last lecture?

Today…

 Annotation (Text)

 Hatch
 Text

Ribbon
tabs
Ribbon
panels
Annotation
panel
 Text set up

Style (ST)
 Modify and
create new text
styles
 Set a text style
as current
Style (ST)
To RENAME a style, right
click on it and choose
RENAME

To DELETE a style,
you need to set
current another style
and then delete the
one you don’t need
Style (ST)
True type font (.ttf)
– new type of fonts

True type font (.ttf)

Shape type font (.shx)

Shape type font (.shx)

– old type of fonts
Style (ST)
 In the FONT area you
can set a FONT
STYLE

 Define the height of

the text:
A. Leave the height
value equal to 0,
which means you
have to specify the
height each and
every time you use
the style
B. Specify a height
value that will
always be used
once you created a
style
 There are five effects you can

Style (ST) add to your text:

1. Upside down

2. Backwards, which is used to write

from right to left

3. Width factor, which affects the

width/height

When you create the style you 4. Oblique angle, text offset angle text
want, click APPLY and then from 90 degrees
CLOSE
5. Vertical is only applicable for shape type
fonts (.shx) and will write the text from top
to bottom
 Creating text styles
1. Create a text style named “AutoCAD Exercise 1” with the following
settings:
a. Font: Arial
b. Font style: Bold
c. Height: 10 mm
d. Width factor: 1

2. Create a text style named “AutoCAD Exercise 2” with the following

settings:
a. Font: Times New Roman
b. Font style: Regular
c. Height: 15 mm
d. Width factor: 2

3. Create a text style named “AutoCAD Exercise 3” with the following

settings:
a. Font: Arial
b. Font style: Regular
c. Height: 30 mm
d. Width factor: 3
 Inserting text

Ribbon
panels

Annotation
panel

 Use either Multiline text (MTEXT) or SINGLE LINE text (TEXT)

 MTEXT can create several paragraphs of text as a single multiline
text
 TEXT creates create one or more lines of text, where each text
line is an independent object that you can relocate, reformat, or
otherwise modify
 Inserting Multiline text
 Make “current” text style “AutoCAD exercise 1”
 Activate MULTILINE text and write the word “Multiline text”
 To modify a multiline text, double click in the word you have
written. AutoCAD will then automatically present a new tab called
“Text editor”.
 Use “Text editor” to format your text
 Inserting Single line text
 Make “current” text style
“AutoCAD exercise 2”.
 Activate SINGLE LINE text
and write the word “Single
line text”.
 To modify a single line text,
select the word, right click
and then select properties.
AutoCAD will then present a
properties window on the left
so you can modify your text.
 Exercise

Open your submission for AutoCAD

exercise 1 and add text as shown in the
drawings.
Hatch
Hatch patterns are graphic elements that help
you to represent types of materials, special
regions, or textures.
 Hatch (H)
1. Open your submission for AutoCAD Exercise 3.
2. Click the HATCH TOOL (1) on the Home tab’s Draw panel. The
HATCH CREATION RIBBON TAB (2) appears.

(1)

(2)
 Hatch (H)
3. Zoom in the bathroom area of the Existing Ground Floor Plan and
click inside the area representing the bathroom floor. The hatch
pattern is placed in the floor area

Hatch Hatch
Select Remove type Hatch transparency
boundar boundar colou Hatch angle
y object y object r
Hatch Hatch spacing/Hatch
background pattern scale
colour
 Hatch (H)
4. Modify hatch as follows:
Hatch type: User defined
Hatch colour: Blue
Hatch spacing: 100

5. Apply hatch patterns to all areas of the floor plans of AutoCAD

Exercise 3 to your preference
 Trim & Hatch
You can easily TRIM hatch if you want as shown
below.
Trim boundary

Before TRIM After TRIM

Trimmed
hatch
area
 Hatch – gap boundary problem
If there is a gap in the selected boundary for hatch,
then the command cannot be executed and the
message below will appear. You need to find and
close the gap to apply hatch
 Hatch – gap boundary problem
If the drawing is big then you may struggle to find the
gaps. A solution to this is to set a GAP TOLERANCE
appropriate for your drawing. You can find this in the
HATCH CREATION RIBBON TAB which opens when
you activate hatch command.
Hatch creation tab

Gap
tolerance