- You’re about to embark on one of the best guides to AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT available today. - A few of the toolbar buttons have Cross-. - If I say one of the following. - AutoCAD LT Basics T he six chapters in Part I provide all of the basics that you need to. - When you press Enter, the text that you typed is echoed on the command line at the bottom of the screen.. - for the pane in the top of the window. - Click the ORTHO button on the status bar at the bottom of the drawing area if it is not already selected (indented). - Specify next point or [Undo]: Move the mouse cursor down from the start point of the line. - Then type the following length of the line. - Click the upper-left corner of the window.. - Pick the top horizontal line of the window.. - Click the Close button at the top of the Properties palette.. - In this exercise, you practiced many of the skills that you need to use AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT effectively. - Choose one of the following:. - At the bottom of the drawing area is a tab labeled Model. - On the right side of the Status bar, at the bottom of the screen, is a lock icon. - At the very bottom of the screen is the status bar (refer to Figure 1-2). - At the right side of the status bar is a small down arrow. - Thumbnails and Preview add a preview image of the drawing.. - Some of the different disciplines that use AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. - These settings include the size of the drawing (called limits), the unit type (such as decimal or feet and inches), and others. - Choose one of the following options:. - You can also use the Places list at the left side of the dialog box to find drawings. - At the bottom of the drawing area, click the Model tab.. - Drag down and choose any one of the options.. - Figure 3-2: The Command Tools tab of the tool palette, shown in AutoCAD. - Each of the items on the tool palette is a tool. - If you like typing commands, you can create short versions of the command names, called aliases. - Home Moves the command-line cursor to the beginning of the text.. - End Moves the command-line cursor to the end of the text.. - Delete Deletes the character to the right of the cursor on the command line.. - To choose an option using the command line, do one of the following:. - Right-click in the drawing area and choose one of the options from the shortcut menu. - Then click one of the options.. - You also see the current coordinate location of the cursor in the Dynamic Input tooltip.. - Suppose that you want to specify the length of the polyline. - You can then choose one of the recent input items from the list. - Table 3-2: Options of the UNDO Command. - Choose Line on the Command Tools tab of the tool palette. - Click the down arrow to the right of the Undo button on the Standard toolbar. - Click the down arrow to the right of the Redo button on the Standard toolbar.. - Many of the topics displayed on the right have three tabs:. - Read the description of the 2P option.. - Click the Close button at the top-right corner of the Help screen. - On the left side of the Help window, click the Index tab.. - Click the Close button of the Help window.. - S pecifying points on the screen is one of the most fundamental tasks you do in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. - Most of the lines are off the screen. - You can type. - On the right side of the dialog box, you can choose how polar tracking works with object snap tracking (covered later in this chapter). - To specify the second point, move the cursor in the approximate angle of the line you want to draw. - You can adjust the size of the crosshairs that cross the cursor. - style section of the dialog box. - Note that you can change the angle of the snap spacing. - style section of the dialog box (refer to Figure 4-18).. - You can customize the following features of object snap tracking on the Drafting tab of the Options dialog box (choose Tools ➪Options):. - 1 On the. - Click the arrow to the right of the Precision drop-down list box in the Length section.. - You need to set only the width and length of the drawing. - In the Plot Scale section of the Plot dialog box (see Chapter 17). - In the Plot Scale section of the Page Setup dialog box (see Chapter 17). - In the Standard scale item of the Properties palette when a Viewport is selected (see Chapter 17). - Most of the templates have a corre- sponding drawing that you can insert. - AutoCAD draws a rectangle of the size that you indicated for the drawing limits.. - prompt to start the line at the endpoint of the last line. - Select one of the options. - If you use one of the options, the first prompt returns so that you can specify the first corner point or use another option. - Pick the bottom-left corner of the rectangle. - Often, you can use object snaps to define part of the circle. - On the. - Figure 7-4 shows the flow of the arc options. - The new arc continues in the same direction as the end of the first arc. - Instead of specifying endpoints, you can use the Center option to specify the center of the ellipse. - Specify start angle or [Parameter]: Use the Endpoint object snap to pick the free endpoint of the line on the right.. - You can pan past the edge of the screen (actually the viewport) in Windows XP. - Figure 8-1: The air compressor is zoomed in so that you can see only part of the drawing.. - Click anywhere in the scroll bar to the right of the scroll box. - 2 On the. - When you zoom out, objects look smaller, but you can see more of the drawing. - You can zoom past the edge of the screen (actually the viewport) in Windows XP. - You can also double-click the wheel to do a zoom to the extents of the drawing.. - The command prompts you for the two corners of the window. - You can move the mouse past the drawing area to define the window past the edge of the screen.. - Extents Zooms to the outer extents of the drawing. - Choose Zoom All from the Zoom flyout of the Standard toolbar.. - Choose Zoom Extents from the Zoom flyout of the Standard toolbar. - Choose Zoom Scale from the Zoom flyout of the Standard toolbar. - Move the Pan box to the bottom-right corner of the warehouse. - Figure 8-6: The new view of the drawing after using Zoom Dynamic.. - Type the name of the first view in the View Name text box.. - Type bottom left in the text box of the New View dialog box.. - The views that you created are now part of the drawing database.. - After you’ve partially opened a drawing, you can load more of the drawing. - You can change the view. - You see a preview of the configuration.. - One of the great advantages of viewports is that you can draw from one viewport to another.. - In the listing at the left of the dialog box, choose Three: Above. - You can also select a UCS, right-click, and choose one of the options from the shortcut menu.. - You can customize the look of the UCS icon. - You can change the size of the icon
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