LA 280 DESIGN COMMUNICATIONS 1 AUTOCAD TUTORIALS

“Conitnuum” project site plan, Aneesha Dharwadker, 2020

“Conitnuum” project site plan, Aneesha Dharwadker, 2020

Monday October 18 and Wednesday October 20

Please watch CAD Tutorials 1 and 2 posted on the LA 280 channel on Illinois MediaSpace: Link to channel

Important keyboard shortcuts

  • F8: toggles orthogonal drawing on and off

  • F3: toggles object snap on and off

  • F7: toggles grid on and off

  • F9: toggles grid snap on and off

  • ESC to exit a command

  • CTRL+Z (or Command+Z on Mac): Undo

Important commands to practice

  • UNITS (set drawing units)

  • L (LINE)

  • PL (POLYLINE)

  • ARC (use ribbon menu for options on how to draw this)

  • CIRCLE (input radius or diameter)

  • RECTANG (RECTANGLE) (click locations of two corners or input dimensions)

  • H (HATCH)

  • PE (POLYLINE EDIT)

  • C (COPY) (click to place or input dimensions)

  • MI (MIRROR) (select axis for mirroring; keep or delete source object)

  • TR (TRIM) (for individual line segments or the open ends of polylines)

  • EXTEND (for individual line segments or the open ends of polylines)

  • SC (SCALE)

  • RO (ROTATE)

  • DIST (DISTANCE)

  • P (PLOT) (same thing as print)

  • XREF (shows panel with list of attached files, like JPEGs)

  • Z (ZOOM) (among the selections for zooming, type E for extents—it shows the full extents of objects in the model space)