Autocad Tutorial

In general, objects that are best suited to becoming part of a block are the components that are repeatedly used in your drawings. In architecture and construction, examples of these components are doors, windows, and fixtures; or drawing symbols, such as a North arrow; or labels for a section cut …

Even a drawing that reads well when printed may get cluttered in the viewports, and it can become difficult to execute a command properly. Often, you will find yourself freezing or turning off the same layers to execute a specific task and then making them visible again. In the course of your workday, …

One of the most useful tools in AutoCAD is the Action Recorder. With this feature, you can perform repetitive tasks and save the steps to a file, called a macro, which can be played back whenever you need to repeat those steps in any drawing. For example, if you need to …

Before saving the next drawing, you will use the Make Object’s Layer Current button (Home tab ➢ Layers palette) to make the A-DOOR layer current. You will then use the Layer Walk tool to verify the contents of each layer by isolating them one at a time. Follow these steps: 1. …

To finish the roof, you’ll draw a single line to represent the peak of the roof that extends from the front of the cabin to the back. Because of the pop-out, the roof is not symmetrical, so the ridgeline will be centered on the two longest vertical sections. Look at the Linetype drop-down …

Currently it’s hard to see that the lines drawn on the A-ROOF layer are indeed dashed, as specified in the Layer Properties Manager. Unless you zoom in to a line on the A-ROOF layer, the lines look continuous, like the objects on the other layers in your drawing. This is because the …

Because the roof extends beyond the exterior walls the same distance on all sides of the building, you can generate the eaves lines by offsetting the outside wall lines: 1. Make sure I06-10-Headers.dwg (M06-10-Headers.dwg) is open. 2. Open the Layer drop-down list, and select the A-ROOF layer to make it current. …

You’ve seen that the Layer drop-down list is a shortcut that allows you to pick a different layer quickly as the current layer and to turn off or turn on individual layers. You’ve also learned how to use the Layer Properties Manager to create new layers or to turn off many layers …

Most door and window openings don’t extend to the ceiling. The portion of the wall above the opening and below the ceiling is the header. The term comes from the name of the beam inside the wall that spans the opening. In a floor plan, wall lines usually stop at …

You can make layers invisible either by turning them off or by freezing them. When a layer is turned off or frozen, the objects on that layer are invisible. These two procedures operate in almost the same way and perform about the same function, with one significant difference: objects on frozen layers …