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ARCHI COURSE

10th National ASA Architectural Exhibition

Department of Architecture

Automatic Computer Aided Design/Drafting (Auto CAD)

-10th National ASA Architectural Exhibition

Shortcuts:

s.n Command Shortcut Description 1. ARC A Creates an arc

2. AREA AA Calculates the area

3. ALIGN AL Align objects with other objects

4. ARRAY AR Creates multiple copies of object in pattern

5 BLOCK B Creates a block definition

6. BCLOSE BC Closed the block definition

7. HATCH BH Gradient and Hatch option

8. BOUNDARY BO Created a region or a polyline from an enclosed area

9. BREAK BR Breaks the selected object between two points

10 BSAVE BS Saves the current block definition

11. CIRCLE C Creates a circle

12. PROPERTIES CH Controls properties

13. CHAMFER CHA Bevels the edges of objects

14. COLOR COL Sets the color for new objects

15. COPY CO/CP Copies objects specified distance in a specified direction

16. DIMSTYLE D Creates and modifies dimension styles

17. DIMANGULAR DAN Creates an angular dimension

18. DIMARC DARC Creates arc length dimension

19. DISTANCE DI Measures the distance and angle between two points

20. DIVIDE DIV Creates evenly distance and angle between two points

21. DSETTINGS DS Sets grid and snap, polar and object snap

22. TEXT DT Creates a single line text object

23. ERASE E Removes object from a drawing

24. ELLIPSE EL Creates an ellipse or elliptical arc

25. EXTEND EX Extends object to meet the edges of other objects

26. QUIT EXIT Exits the program

27. FILLET F Rounds and fillets the edges of objects

28. FILTER FI

29. GROUP G Creates and manage saved sets of objects called groups

30. GRADIENT GD Gradient fill

31. HATCH H Fills an enclosed area

32. HATCHEDIT HE Modifies an existing hatch or fill

33. INSERT I Insert a block or drawing into current drawing

34. DIMJOGGED JOG Creates jogged dimension for circle and arcs


35. LINE L Creates straight line segments

36. LAYER LA Manages layer and layer properties

37. LENGTHEN LE Changes the length of objects

38. LINETYPE LT Loads sets, and modifies linotypes

39. LWEIGHT LW Sets current line weight

40. MOVE M Moves objects a specified distance in specified direction

41. MATCHPROP MA Applies the properties of a selected object to other

42. MEASURE ME

43. MIRROR MI Created mirrored copy of selected objects

44. MLEADER MLD Creates a multi leader object

45. MLINE ML Creates multiple parallel lines

46. MVIEW MV Creates and control layout viewports

47. OFFSET O Creates offset

48. OPTIONS OP Customizes the program settings

49. OSNAP OS Sets running object snap modes

50. PAN P Adds a parameter with grips

51. PLYLINE OR PLINE PL Create 2d polyline

52. PEDIT PE Edits polyline

53. POINT PO Create a point object

54. PROPERTIES PR Display properties palette

55. PRINT/PLOT PLOT Plots the drawing

56. QUICKCALC QC Quick calculator

57. REGEN RE Regenerates the entire drawing from the current viewports

58. ROTATE RO Rotates the object around a base point

59. STRETCH S Stretches the objects

60. SCALE SC Enlarge or reduce the size of object

61. SPLINE SOL Checks spelling in a drawing

62. STYLE ST Creates modifies, or specifies text styles

63. MTEXT T Creates a multiple text objects

64. TABLE TB

65. TRIM TR Trims objects to meet edges of other objects

66. TABLESTYLE TS Creates, modifies, or specifies tablestyles

67. UNITS UN Controls coordinate and angle display

68 WBLOCK W Writes objects or a block to new drawing file


69 EXOLODE X Breaks a components into its components objects

70 XREF XR Starts the external references

71. ZOOM Z


Series Index:

0. General Overview and Installation of CAD

1. Exploring the User Interface

2. Managing File and Options

3. Navigating Drawings

4. Drawing Objects

5. Modifying Objects

6. Drawing Accurately

7. Practice Drawing Projects

8. Hatching and Creating gradients

9. Writing and text

10. Dimensioning

11. Working with Layers

12. Making External References

13. Working with Layouts

14. Creating Output


Historical Development of Auto CAD

Started since 1982 and named as Version-1

Release-12 1992

Release-14 1997 (upgraded only on Windows Operating System with GUI)

Auto CAD-2000

Auto CAD -2000i

Auto CAD - 2002

Auto CAD - 2004

Auto CAD – 2005

Auto CAD – 2006

Auto CAD – 2007

…………………..

Auto CAD – 2016

Application of Auto CAD:

All the Engineering Field Where Drawing is needed

Carpentry

Painting

Drafting

Art and Graphic

Model space & Paper Space – Workspace


Commands:

Units

Keyboard: units shorcut UN

Line:

Toolbar – draw

Keyboard Line shortcut L

Construction Line:

Keyboard Shortcut: XL or Type XLine

The Construction line creates line of infinite length which passes through two picked points\

, press Hl for horizontal and VL for vertical construction line

Ray:

Type Ray or Shorcut: Ray

This is similar to construction line expect it only end infinitely at one direction only.

Polyline:

Keyboard: Polyline or Pline Shortcut: PL

This is similar to line expect that the output object is single.

Rectangle:

Select Rectangle icon from palate, or type Rec

Polygon:

Command: Polygon, then provide no. of side


Donut:

Keyboard: Donut or shortcut: DO

Revcloud:

Keyboard: REVCLOUD

Circle: C, Arc- A, Ellipse

Spline:

Keyboard: spline or SPL

Wipeout, Erase (E ), Oops

The oops command provide us to go back if we do any mistake while drawing.

Point:

Keyboad: Po

Remember to use DDPTYPE to use different

style of pont.

Copy:

Type: Copy or CP or CO


Mirror:

Keyboard: Mirror or MI

This command allows you to mirror selected

objects in your drawing.

Offset:

Keyboard: offset or O

This is one of most useful command for constructing

drawing.

Array:

Keyboard: Array or AR

Rectangular array, polar array

Move:

Keyboard: move or M

Rotate:

Keyboard: ROTATE or RO

This command allows an object or objects to be rotated about a point selected by the users.

Scale:

Keyboard: SCALE or SC

Note: the size of object will be increase if scale factor is greater than 1 and decrease if scale

factor is less than 1.


Align:

Keyboard: ALIGN or AL

Stretch:

Keyboard: STRETCH OR S

Stretching with Grips: Although the Stretch command can be very useful, it has largely been superseded by

the use of “Grips” which allow this sort of modification to be made much more intuitively.

Trim:

Keyboard: TRIM or TR

Extend:

Keyboard: EXTEND or EX

Chamfer

Keyboard: CHAMFER or CHA


Fillet:

Keyboard: FILLET or F

Explode:

Keyboard: Explode or X

This command is used to “explode” single objecs back to their constituents parts.

Orhto mode: f8 or ortho

Grid: f7 or grid

Drafing Setting:

Keyboard: DS,

DDRMODE,DDOSNAP

*Press shift+ right mouse button to get temporarily snap option, this is very useful


Layer:

Keyboard: LAYER or LA

DIMENSIONING:

AutoCAD provides a whole range of

dimensioning tools which can be used to

quickly dimension.


AutoCAD divides

dimension into four

main categories:

Linear, Radial,

Ordinate and Angular.

When we create

dimension, AutoCAD

automatically creates

a new layer called

“Defpoints” this is a

special layer which

cannot be deleted or

renamed.

Linear

Dimension:

Keyboard:

dimlinear

Continue Dimension:

Keyboard: Dimcontinue

Baseline Dimension:

Keyboard: dimbaseline


Alinged Dimension:

Keyboard: dimalinged

Dimension text edit :

Keyboard : dimtedit

Block:

Block is a group of objects, it is used for repeated use of drawing.

To define block, select the object or objects then press B

Then give the desirable name of Block,

MatchProperties:

Keyboard: MA

It applies properties of the source object to desired objects. It

matches the properties like layer, hatch, line wt. etc.

ViewPort:

Keyboard: MV that means make viewport


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