- Taking Control of the AutoCAD Display. - Workspaces are saved arrangements of the AutoCAD window. - LT users may see the Info palette in the left of the AutoCAD window.. - Click the Workspace list in the upper-left corner of the AutoCAD window and select AutoCAD Clas- sic. - A typical arrangement of the elements in the AutoCAD window.. - The drawing area occupies the rest of the screen.. - You can easily move and reshape many of the elements in the AutoCAD window. - Figure 1.2 The 3D Modeling workspace offers an alternative arrange- ment of the elements in the AutoCAD window.. - The drawing area occupies most of the screen. - At the bottom of the drawing area, you’ll see a set of tabs. - Place the cursor in the middle of the drawing area and click the left mouse button. - In the lower-left corner of the drawing area, you see an L-shaped arrow. - You can use the scroll bar to the right of the Command window to review previous messages. - Click the X in the upper-right corner of the Tool Palettes window to close it. - Click a point roughly in the lower-left corner of the drawing area, as shown in Figure 1.7.. - Click another point anywhere in the upper-right region of the drawing area. - In the status bar, a more detailed description of the tool’s purpose appears (see Figure 1.9).. - AutoCAD also displays a descrip- tion of the tool in the status bar.. - it has a small right-pointing arrow in the lower-right corner of the tool.. - You can also change the shape of the toolbar. - Click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the Draw floating toolbar. - Click the Open button at the bottom of the Select File dialog box. - This offers easy identification of the file.. - You’ll start by switching to a Model Space view of the drawing. - Click the Model tab at the bottom of the AutoCAD window.. - You can also gain some extra drawing space by clicking the Maximize button in the upper-right corner of the drawing area.. - You have just erased a part of the drawing.. - Figure 1.13 Erasing a portion of the clip. - Click the X in the upper-right corner of the Tool palettes.. - If a tool has a flyout, you’ll see a small triangle in the lower-right corner of the tool.. - then let go of the mouse button. - You’ll use this dialog box in the early stages of the book. - If you look ahead to Figure 2.8, you’ll see all the modes of the drawing cursor.. - The Backspace key is in the upper-right corner of the main keyboard area.. - The default option is the one stated in the main part of the prompt. - You can enter an angle, a chord length, or the endpoint of the arc. - Look at the Osnap and Otrack buttons in the status bar at the bottom of the AutoCAD window. - This setting can also be found in the Selection tab of the Options dialog box. - Move the cursor to the lower-right corner of the door. - To the far right of the status bar, you’ll see a downward-pointing arrow. - You can also right-click in the drawing area and select the option at the top of the list. - Next you will move the rest of the door in the same direction by using the Autoselect feature:. - Pick a point below and to the right of the door. - The copies of the stretched lines disappear.. - The door moves to the center of the screen. - A Quick Summary of the Grips Feature. - Move the cursor toward the upper-right corner of the drawing area. - Click the bottommost line of the door as shown in Figure 2.20. - Click the middle grip of the arc.. - In the panel on the right, click the item labeled C just to the right of the Commands listing.. - A description of the Copy command appears in the panel to the right.. - Click the Search tab in the left panel of the Help window. - A description of the Move command appears in the panel on the right.. - If you want to turn it off, click the X in the upper-left corner of the palette. - To the far right of the status bar, you’ll see the Communication Center icon. - Double-click the arc in the drawing to open the Properties palette, which displays a list of the arc’s properties. - You can also use it to modify many of the properties listed.. - Next, draw the arc portion of the latch.. - you can also click the Grid button in the status bar.. - that is in the lower-left corner of the drawing. - Figure 3.2 A plan view of the toilet tank. - The top of the ellipse reappears.. - prompt, click the top portion of the ellipse, as you did in the previous exercise. - Click the other end of the line. - (81 cm × 152 cm for metric users) on the left side of the drawing area. - then press ↵ for the first side of the tub. - Now you have the outline of the tub. - A copy of the line appears. - Now you will draw the bottom of the tub:. - In the case of a polyline, it selects the midpoint of the polyline segment.. - Finally, you’ll draw the bowl of the sink.. - This places one corner of the rectangle in the origin of the drawing.. - The rectangle appears in the lower half of the drawing area.. - If you prefer, you can specify another location by modifying the information in the Files tab of the Options dialog box. - Move the cursor to the midpoint of the left vertical side of the rectangle. - Move the cursor to the center of the rectangle. - Click a point below and to the left of the toilet.. - to erase the entire visible contents of the drawing. - Figure 4.1 The interior walls of the bathroom. - Click the Name drop-down list to display a list of the available blocks in the current drawing.. - Double-click the Scale X value in the column just to the right of the Scale X label.. - Figure 4.6 The door on the right-side wall of the bathroom. - Click the Select Objects button and select the components of the door. - Now place the door in the wall of the room:. - Notice that the name Station1 appears in the Group Name box at the top of the dialog box.. - You can also click the individual objects of the workstation to make the selection.. - Figure 4.9 A sketch of the new office layout. - Start by making a copy of the workstation:. - Notice that you can click any part of the station to select the entire station. - message in the command line. - Each group has a unique name, and you can also attach a brief description of the group in the Object Grouping dialog box. - Here is a rundown of the tools that are available in the Group Manager.. - Click the New Layer button at the top of the dialog box. - You can select HSL or RGB from the Color Model drop-down list in the upper-right corner of the dialog box.. - Notice that an arrow appears in the layer name to the right of the Layer option.. - these control the status of the layer.. - This shows you the color of the layer.. - With the Casework layer selected in the Layer list, click the Set Current button at the top of the dialog box.. - Figure 5.4 explains the role of the other icons in the Layer drop-down list.. - In the upper-left corner of the dialog box, you see a toolbar with three tools:
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